JA Miller on “Common Sense” in Psychoanalysis
March 13, 2020
Jacques-Alain Miller & Sinthome & Psychoanalysis
Common sense, it’s what everyone agrees on. Psychoanalysis finds itself fundamentally in default with respect to the agreement that grounds common
The treatment of psychotics in the Lacanian Orientation
March 12, 2020
Lacan & Ordinary Psychosis & Psychosis & Jacques-Alain Miller
I’m getting ready to (attempt to) teach students about the Lacanian orientation’s approach to treating patients with a psychotic structure. Most of
Can we use the signifier “virtual” in a similar way that we use the signifier “imaginary”
March 8, 2020
Deleuze & Cooper Cherry & Andrew Culp & Imaginary &  Virtual
I was listening to an older episode of _The Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour1_ , where Cooper Cherry interviews Andrew Culp (author of Dark Deleuze).
The object a that haunts
March 7, 2020
Lacan & Object a & Hauntology
I’ve been doing some writing about object a for Complex Praxis, so I’ve been on the lookout for some bits of text that describe object a in
Notes on the semblance
February 28, 2020
Lacan & Semblant & Object a & Das Ding & Russell Grigg
The notes on this come from an post on Lacan.com by Russell Grigg.1 I took some rather chaotic notes on the text, and wanted to pst those notes here
The monster of Autocracy is not dead, yo.
February 13, 2020
Monsterology & Hauntology
I read a post by John Gruber on Daring Fireball today, which linked to this article at the Atlantic by David Frum. What has happened in Hungary
Bataille’s Mic Drop
February 10, 2020
Bataille & Sacrifice & Freud & Death Drive
I highlighted this in my copy of the text, and put a big ! by it. No one can say without being comical that he is getting ready to overturn
Bataille, McGowan, Sacrifice, & Enjoyment.
February 10, 2020
Bataille & Todd McGowan & Sacrifice
I’m diving into Georges Bataille’s The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, after reading about Bataille’s ideas in Todd McGowan’s
Object a — In A Field Guide to Getting Lost
January 31, 2020
Lacan & Object a & Rebecca Solnit
In A Field Guide to Getting Lost Rebecca Solnit writes about how when a person looks towards a distant mountain the mountain seems hazy and tinted
Brian Eno on (psychoanalytic) listening
January 30, 2020
Brian Eno & Listening & Unconscious
I recently found the following bit of text from an interview with Brian Eno. …The biggest mistake is to wait for inspiration. It won’t come looking
Biopolitics V. Necropolitics
January 27, 2020
Necropolitics & Foucault & Archille Mbembe
Continuing to do a little bit of reading on the term necropolitics, I found this. The term ‘biopolitics’ was coined by Michel Foucault in the
Necropolitics
January 27, 2020
Hauntology & Necropolitics & Archille Mbembe
In my continuing attempts to understand hauntology I came across a book titled Necropolitics by Achille Mbembe. I was intrigued by the concept, but
Saying too much is asking to be loved
January 23, 2020
Lacan & Bruce Fink & Analyst’s Discourse & Jouissance
Earlier today, in this post, I wrote about the discourse of the analyst being contingent on the analyst saying very little, and what the analyst
Just make a note, don’t (try to) create insight
January 23, 2020
Lacan & Analyst’s Discourse & Jacques-Alain Miller & Jouissance
One of the things I’ve been gathering texts on is how an analyst uses or refrains from using their speech in an analytic session. How the analyst
Two ways to think of haunting:
January 21, 2020
Hauntology & Mark Fisher & Avery F. Gordon
I’m finding myself looking at haunting in two different ways. The first way — is more social and takes place within a group or society. This first
The Body & Hauntology
January 19, 2020
Castration & Hauntology & Power
In an earlier post here on the commonplace book I wrote about the idea of castration-gone-wrong. Since writing that I’ve continued to think about
Lifeworld | Ghostworld
January 17, 2020
Hauntology & Husserl & Phenomenology & Unconscious
Haunting is something that happens in the world of the living, it is those who live that are haunted. Ergo, any understanding of haunting is
Violation as “Castration-gone-wrong”
January 16, 2020
Hauntology & Lacan & Castration & Avery F. Gordon
In an earlier post I was working through a part of a text by Avery F. Gordon, and attempted to link what haunts to a violation that has been covered
What would Hauntography entail?
January 16, 2020
Hauntography & Hauntology & Ethnography
After posting this, I’ve been wondering what hauntography, as a research method combining hauntology and ethnography, entail? Would it be something
Ghostly Matters: Reading Notes 001
January 16, 2020
Hauntology & Avery F. Gordon & Reading Notes
Below are some direct quotes from Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination By Avery F. Gordon. Haunting is not the same as being
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