May 2011
26 posts
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“Love, the love of the person who desires to be loved, is essentially an attempt...”
– Jacques Lacan, Seminar I: Freud’s Papers on Technique.
May 31st
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“Depression! Sacrosanct depression! The word is spreading, at a gallop, and...”
– JAM -Depression.
May 30th
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“It is no surprise that Coke was first introduced as a medicine - its strange...”
– Zizek - Surplus-Enjoyment Between the Sublime and the Trash.
May 29th
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May 29th
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May 28th
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May 27th
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“An important proportion of the historical research in the domain of medical...”
– François Sauvagnat. Recent Challenges of Psychoanalytic Therapies.
May 27th
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“The idea of men’s receiving an intimation of their connection with the world...”
– Das Unbehagen in der Kultur (1929) - S.Freud.
May 26th
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Psychoanalysis and Medicine (on Tumblr)
Where´s Unconscious “located”? Here: http://www.tumblr.com/spotlight/medicine “What I say regarding the place that the psychoanalyst can occupy is currently the only place where a doctor can maintain the originality of his position, that is, what he has to know, although this can only be done by directing the subject to reverse his thinking to make this demand.” The position of...
May 25th
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May 25th
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“The unconscious is knowledge; but it is a knowledge one cannot know one knows, a...”
– Lacan, The Non-dupes Err.
May 25th
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May 25th
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“The normal, and morally acceptable, way of overcoming low self-esteem was to...”
– Fukuyama, Our Post-Human Future, p.46.
May 22nd
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Angst and its feminine translation.
Women, women in love, are anxious. They are anxious about their man’s desire. Following Lacan’s comment after his quotation of one of his women analysands, this would be the definition of feminine love.  What did this woman say ? She told her analyst that she didn’t mind her husband desiring her « as long as he desired no other » ! « Qu’elle y tienne, c’est ça...
May 22nd
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May 22nd
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May 20th
41 notes
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“Psychological history of the concept “subject.” The body, the thing,...”
– Nietzsche, The Will to Power - 8. Against Causalism, 547 (1885-1886).
May 18th
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“This tension between an ethics of desire and an ethics of drive further...”
– Tarrying With The Negative (1993) - S.Zizek
May 16th
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May 13th
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About the Politics of Mental Health
An undecidable logic How to define mental health in a scientific way?  Let’s say it at once: it’s impossible. That’s why speaking about “mental disease” like one does in psychiatry has always been an abuse of language. Disease implicates the idea of healing as the return of health. If healing means a return to a primal, normal, state, how to define that primal state of...
May 13th
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“That is all I had to say to you about femininity. It is certainly incomplete and...”
– Sigmund Freud, Femininity (1933).
May 11th
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“Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for...”
– J. Lacan, interviewed in 1957.
May 8th
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May 7th
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May 4th
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“When they curiously question thee, seeking to know what It is, Do not affirm...”
– Buddhist verse. Alan Watts, The Spirit of Zen (1958).
May 3rd
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7 conceptos cruciales del psicoanálisis (J-D... →
May 1st
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