Let’s try to practice a little brain-washing on ourselves.
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In 2000, the 100th anniversary of the publication of Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams was accompanied by a new wave of triumphalist acclamations of how psychoanalysis is dead: with the new advances in brain sciences, it is finally put where it belonged all the time, to [...]
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Introduction
April 10, 2009 – 5:09 pm
Empty Gestures and Performatives
Lacan confronts the CIA plot
April 9, 2009 – 5:20 pm
Is it with the gifts of Danaoi (the Greeks who laid siege to Troy) or with the passwords that give them their salutary non-sense that language, with the law, begins? For these gifts are already symbols, in the sense that symbol means pact and that they are first and foremost signifiers of the pact that [...]
The Interpassive Subject
Lacan turns a prayer wheel
April 8, 2009 – 11:33 am
And what is a Chorus? You will be told that it’s you yourselves. Or perhaps that it isn’t you. But that’s not the point. Means are involved here, emotional means. In my view, the Chorus is people who are moved.
Therefore, look closely before telling yourself that emotions are engaged in this purification. They are engaged, [...]
From Che Vuoi? to Fantasy
Lacan with Eyes Wide Shut
April 7, 2009 – 11:36 am
And why the Other with a capital O? For a no doubt mad reason, in the same way as it is madness every time we are obliged to bring in signs supplementary to those given by language. Here the mad reason is the following. You are my wife – after all, what do you [...]
Troubles with the Real
Lacan as a viewer of Alien
April 6, 2009 – 12:45 pm
Whenever the membranes of the egg in which the foetus emerges on its way to becoming a new-born are broken, imagine for a moment that something flies off, and that one can do it with an egg as easily as with a man, namely the hommelette, or the lamella.
The lamella is something extra-flat, which moves [...]
Ego Ideal and the Superego
Lacan as a viewer of Casablanca
April 5, 2009 – 12:47 pm
Nothing forces anyone to enjoy except the superego. The superego is the imperative of jouissance – Enjoy! [1]
Although jouissance can be translated as “enjoyment,” translators of Lacan often leave it in French in order to render palpable its excessive, properly traumatic character: we are not dealing with simple pleasures, but with a violent [...]
“God is Dead, but He Doesn’t Know It”
Lacan plays with Bobok
April 4, 2009 – 12:49 pm
The true formula of atheism is not God is dead – even by basing the origin of the function of the father upon his murder, Freud protects the father – the true formula of atheism is God is unconscious [1]
In order to properly understand this passage, one has to read it together with another [...]
The Perverse Subject of Politics
Lacan as reader of Mohammad Bouyeri
April 3, 2009 – 12:52 pm
Strictly speaking, perversion is an inverted effect of the phantasy. It is the subject who determines himself as an object, in his encounter with the division of subjectivity. [...] It is in so far as the subject makes himself the object of another will that the sado-masochistic drive not only closes up, but constitutes itself. [...]
