"Les psychanalystes sont les savants d'un savoir dont ils ne peuvent s'entretenir" JAM #Lacan #psychoanalysis
«…la pluralité des sujets ne se laisse pas collectiviser, emprisonner dans le même espace. Les sujets y sont réfractaires, ils n'existent que dans un état de dispersion. » Jacques-Alain Miller sur la singularité absolue en #psychanalyse. Le danger serait que chacun s’isole dans son monologue! #Lacan
9. Close-up of Gustav #Klimt |s « naked truth » (nuda veritas), a detail in his painting Pallas Athene (1889), which he painted for the opening exhibition of the radical Secession (which broke away from the established Künstlerhaus). I am of course reminded of #Lacan for whom truth is always veiled.
#AI offers replaceable loss that no longer makes a hole in the real. You are nobody‘s lack and that, of course, is a cop-out of life as such … #Lacan www.nlscongress2025.amp-nls.org/blogposts/zo...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3oezhi4yroqopcpgvjmrzmjx/post/3mi6og7tzm22e
"In the #Lacan /ian orientation an analysis is not a therapy, it is a technique to produce a de-Otherization of the speaking being, and to awaken from the disease that the unconscious is." Véronique Voruz. The end of analysis #psychoanalysis
But to force oneself to be “present” in the midsts of the everyday, denies trauma to become part of one’s history. This is what neurotics manage well: they have a capability for “hystorization” as #Lacan called it.To create a hystory of one’s own does more to one’s peace of mind than one might think
From a #Lacan |ian perspective, wanting to “live in the present” is structurally psychotic. A key concept of the self-help mindfulness industry is that of arguing for “presence”. Most famously advocated for by E. Tolle many years ago, but now allover Instagram and beyond…

Why Lacan Loved Harpo Marx

"Harpo is an automatic object-machine that converts both the world and himself into a polymorphously perverse source of jouissance.”

https://daily.jstor.org/why-lacan-loved-harpo-marx/

#Lacan #MarxBrothers

Why Lacan Loved Harpo Marx - JSTOR Daily

A surprising encounter between high theory and Hollywood farce reshapes how we think about laughter and desire.

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We know animals / insects communicate, but this reads as if they knew how to use metaphors. How absolutely brutal - and therefore beautiful - to create a long-term relationship (co-dependency) by eating each others WINGS. #Lacan would have worked with this. www.npr.org/2026/03/18/n...

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#Lacan described #Harpo as having a “face with its #smile which leaves us unclear as to whether it signifies the most extreme #perversity or complete #simplicity.” daily.jstor.org/why-lacan-lo... #HarpoMarx

Why Lacan Loved Harpo Marx - J...
Why Lacan Loved Harpo Marx - JSTOR Daily

A surprising encounter between high theory and Hollywood farce reshapes how we think about laughter and desire.

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