The Speaking Body
June 12, 2020
Lacan & Seminar XX & Speaking Body
I’ve found that some non-Lacanians believe that Lacan does not focus on (or completely overlooks) affect and/or the importance of “body language.”
The Great Truth (insult?) of Psychoanalysis
June 12, 2020
Unconscious & Lacan & Psychoanalysis & Book-1
Psychoanalysis announces that you are no longer the centre of yourself, since there is another subject within you, the Unconscious. 1 This very
The effect of the Name-of-the-Father & the Law
May 28, 2020
Name-of-the-Father & Desire & Impossibility & Lacan & Book-001
Lacan points out that the crux of desire “is essentially found in impossibly.” He goes on to say But Freud reveals to us that it is thanks to the
Desire comes from…
May 28, 2020
Lacan & the Other & Desire & Jouissance & Das Ding & Phallus & Object a & Symptom & Sinthome & Book-001
One more note from On Freud’s “Trieb” and the Psychoanalyst’s Desire. Lacan says for desire comes from the Other, and jouissance is located on the
Lacan on Drive V. Instinct
May 28, 2020
Drive & Instinct & Lacan & Book-001
In On Freud’s “Trieb” and the Psychoanalyst’s Desire in the Écrits, Lacan says. It can never be often enough repeated … that the drive —the
Laurent on “awakening”
May 22, 2020
Monsterology & Lacan & Jouissance & Instinct & Drive & Éric Laurent
I was reading something that Eric Laurent presenter at the XII CONGRESS WORLD ASSOCIATION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS April 13-17, which took place in Buenos
The Neurotic v. The Pervert
May 10, 2020
Neurotic & Pervert & Psychic Structures & Lacan
Whenever I teach about the psychological strictires I have an easy time distinguishing between psychotic steuctires and neurotic structires. I’ve
Good advice from Taylor Adkins
April 17, 2020
Taylor Adkins & Podcast & Guattari & Lacan & Name-of-the-Father & Hysteric & Monsterology
I was listening to an episode of Cooper Cherry’s Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour Podcast where coop talks with Taylor Adkins and DC Barker At about
Keep it fake
March 31, 2020
COVID-19 & The Real & Lacan & Heat Death & Huantology
The effects of the coronavirus, beyond the public health questions, will leave an irreversible impact on the culture. I have been reflecting on what
The last teaching of Lacan does not mean we set fire to what came before it
March 14, 2020
Jacques-Alain Miller & Lacan & The Real
The last teaching of Lacan, that I only now address thematically, and with caution, does not invite you to set fire to that which you adored. I
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
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
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
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
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
Sartre & the Analyst’s Discourse — The non-S1
January 14, 2020
Sartre & Analyst’s Discourse & Lacan & Existentialism
Here is the set up. One day during the Occupation, Sartre said, an ex-student of his had one to him for advice. The young mans’s brother had been
Something I jotted down after seeing Joker
December 7, 2019
Lacan & Jouissance
This might not make sense to me tomorrow morning…