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These are notes I take on things I'm reading. They are often disorganized, and they might not make much sense to people who are not me... be that as it may, as a supporting member of [S][J][P], you're welcome to them.

⚯ Reading Notes | Analysis Terminable and Interminable

1. Freud starts by saying something clearly. Experience has taught us that psycho-analytic therapy —the freeing someone from his neurotic symptoms, inhibitions, and abnormalities of character— is a time-consuming business. I notice he says "psycho-analytic therapy" and not just psychoanalysis. That's interesting. Perhaps Freud does not

[Reading] Fassbinder Thousandsof Mirrors by Ian Penman

These are passages I highlighted in the book Fassbinder Thousandsof Mirrors by Ian Penman because I like them. I don't recall ever feeling particularly English or British or Anglo Saxon or Celtic or whatever; this may have been partly the punkish, puckish spirit of the times, and partly

Is the Unconscious Real? No!

From Reading A Symptom, by Jacques-Alain Miller. The Unconscious is a Fundamental Hypothesis: The unconscious that lacks Being is represented by a hypothesis, an idea, a theory. It lacks Being. It always slips away, eluding our conscious attempts to contain, control, or understand it. The unconscious could be said to

Combining Two Things

From the Paris Review interview with Emmanuel Carrère, speaking about W, or the Memory of Childhood, by Georges Perec. ...the way he uses these two stories—it’s as if he is trying to harness something he isn’t able to say. I have often used that method, combining things

A note on The Transferential Unconscious V. The Real Unconscious

In doing some work, I came across this bit of text that I had highlighted in Thomas Svolos's book Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis. (Let me add parenthetically, that in the later work of Lacan, more relevant today in practice, as further developed by Jacques-Alain Miller, in addition to this

Lacan's Seminar XI | A Reading

Some preliminary remarks by me, the reader. This post is part of a series of posts about a reading of Lacan's Seminar XI: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, which was given in 1964. -◉- Before getting going, I want to state a few things as clearly

⚯ Reading Notes | Interview with an Alleged Vampire

I read this profile of Joss Whedon [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joss_Whedon] in New York Magazine today. I found a something things in it that I want to remember. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Describing the work of film scholar Jeanine Basinger [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanine_Basinger]: > In one

⚯ Reading Notes | All My Reals, By Gerardo Aranas

What real is at stake in psychoanalysis today? This is the question that is orienting the work that the Lacanian Compass [https://www.lacaniancompass.com] (which I am a member of) is working on now. The work will culminate in the Clinical Study Days 14 [https://www.lacaniancompass.com/csd]

⚯ Reading Notes | Craig Mod: Roden 063

Hi, Usually, I don't send out my ⚯ Reading Notes as an email; I just post them to [S][J][P] in the Reading Notes section [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/tag/reading-notes/]. However, I'm sending this one out to make anyone who reads these missives aware that

⚯ Reading Notes | Mental Health & The Social order

> [M]ental health is part, a subcategory, of the set of the public order. > There is no other definition for mental health than that of public order. [...] Mental heal [is] defined, then, by reference to [the] public order. Mental health works to maintain the social order. Psychoanalysts don&