January 2011
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fenomena:
La medicalización de la sociedad es un fenómeno creciente: cada vez más, problemas no médicos pasan a ser definidos y tratados como tales, siendo instrumento de intereses de mercado vinculados a la expansión de la industria farmacéutica y biotecnológica. La construcción de nuevas enfermedades, el aumento en la prescripción de medicamentos, el encasillado diagnóstico de sentimientos...
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5 Shallow Hypotheses for the Rise of Recognized...
The DSM is the official source for psychologists who are diagnosing patients with mental disorders. The article points out that the number of disorders in the manual has more than doubled since the 1950s:
Hypothesis One: The DSM reflects an increasingly sophisticated and exhuastive compendium of all possible mental disorders.
Hypothesis Two: More psychological...
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“I believe that the universe around us is a projection of our paranoia, an...”
– S. Dali, Unspeakable Confessions.
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The Hypocrisy as method of treatment for hysteria
The hypocrisy offers a simple judgment as an act or decree of reality, and is fully—if obscurely—aware that it is doing so. Hypocrisy is the equivocal displacement, Verstellung, of an intimate consciousness of feigned truth, to the assumption of a feint of truth before everyone—and the disdain for this very displacement. Hypocrisy does of course characterize an ethical problem, but it...
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“All too often, when we love somebody, we don’t accept him or her as what the...”
– Slavoj Žižek.
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“In what does this sounding that is an analysis consist? Would it, or would it...”
– Seminar XXIV (1977) - J. Lacan.
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The Americanization of Mental Illness
AMERICANS, particularly if they are of a certain leftward-leaning, college-educated type, worry about our country’s blunders into other cultures. In some circles, it is easy to make friends with a rousing rant about the McDonald’s near Tiananmen Square, the Nike factory in Malaysia or the latest blowback from our political or military interventions abroad. For all our self-recrimination, however,...
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“The normal should not be opposed to the pathological, because under certain...”
– G. Canguilhem.
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“To perceive, in the darkness of the present, this light that strives to reach us...”
– Giorgio Agamben, What is Contemporary? (via criticalline)
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“One of Foucault’s prime examples of biopower’s operation is the late...”
– Tim Dean, “Lacan and Queer Theory,” The Cambridge Companion to Lacan.
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Does Mental Health exist? The politics of...
Where Mental Health is put at the service of public order, psychoanalysis tries to work out a place for each one’s own ‘craziness’. Where Mental Health tries to standardise desire to put the subject in step with the common ideals, psychoanalysis supports a claim of the right to the ‘not like everyone else’. Where Mental Health carries a trace of charity, psychoanalysis, according to Lacan,...
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“(…) if man were naturally higher than the animal, then the origin of man would...”
– Steinthal quoted in Giorgio Agamben, The Open.
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Psychosis & the mother-child relationship
Psychosis results from a child’s failure to assimilate a “primordial” signifier which would otherwise structure the child’s symbolic universe, that failure leaving the child unanchored in language, without a compass reading on the basis of which to adopt an orientation. A psychotic child may very well assimilate language, but cannot come to be...
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Humor vs. Irony →
“How are we going to define the schizophrenic here? For the moment, I propose to define him or her, following Lacan, as the subject who specifies himself or herself by not being caught up in any discourse, in any social link. I would add that this is the only subject who does not defend himself or herself from the real by means of the symbolic, which we all do when we are not...
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“…no praxis is more orientated towards that which, at the heart of experience, is...”
– Seminar XI (1964) - J.Lacan (via circulationwithinmyskull)
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“It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain...”
– Erich Fromm.
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