The conjectural science of the subject

The last one. I couldnt resist it.

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:16:00 -0300

The last one. I couldnt resist it.

Closed From Now On! Thanks to the followers & Tumblr friends...

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:35:00 -0300

Closed From Now On!

Thanks to the followers & Tumblr friends I made.

@_ViniciusMR

When I speak, I do not know what I am going to say.

Fé Cega, Faca Amolada Artist: Milton Nascimento Album: Minas...

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:46:10 -0300

Fé Cega, Faca Amolada

Artist: Milton Nascimento

Album: Minas (1975)

"When we are dealing with a truly great philosopher the real question to be raised concerns not what..."

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:01:18 -0300

“When we are dealing with a truly great philosopher the real question to be raised concerns...

De Volta à Terra Boa (Back To The Good Land). English, French,...

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 15:04:00 -0300

De Volta à Terra Boa (Back To The Good Land).

English, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese subtitles.

How Psychoanalysis Works

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:37:32 -0300

“How Psychoanalysis Works”. This is not a question, this is an assertion. Because psychoanalysis...

PLEASE READ AND SIGN!! The chief Raoni cries when he learns...

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:36:22 -0300

PLEASE READ AND SIGN!!

The chief Raoni cries when he learns that brazilian president Dilma released the beginning of construction of the hydroelectric plant of Belo Monte, even after tens of thousands of letters and emails addressed to her and which were ignored as the more than 600,000 signatures. That is, the death sentence of the peoples of Great Bend of the Xingu river is enacted. Belo Monte will inundate at least 400,000 hectares of forest, an area bigger than the Panama Canal, thus expelling 40,000 indigenous and local populations and destroying habitat valuable for many species - all to produce electricity at a high social, economic and environmental cost, which could easily be generated with greater investments in energy efficiency.

It was brought to my attention that there is a petition we all can sign to help support these indigenous people and the Amazon. Please take a second to check it out below or comparable petitions that are available. Thank you.

http://amazonwatch.org/take-action/stop-the-belo-monte-monster-dam

"Herein lies the paradox proper to capitalism, its last resort: capitalism is capable of transforming..."

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:55:22 -0300

“Herein lies the paradox proper to capitalism, its last resort: capitalism is capable of...

Bat Macumba Artist: Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso Album:...

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 14:10:00 -0300

Bat Macumba

Artist: Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso

Album: Tropicalia (1968)

The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why? by Marcia Angell | The New York Review of Books

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:35:00 -0300

The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why? by Marcia Angell | The New York Review of Books: It seems that...

Manifiesto de Buenos Aires. Campaña STOP DSM

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:07:36 -0300

Manifiesto de Buenos Aires. Campaña STOP DSM

Pour en finir avec le carcan du DSM: SIGNEZ LA PETITION

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:02:52 -0300

Pour en finir avec le carcan du DSM: SIGNEZ LA PETITION

Salvo contadas excepciones, durante todo el siglo XVI la locura...

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:10:00 -0300

Salvo contadas excepciones, durante todo el siglo XVI la locura fue competencia de exorcistas e inquisidores; sin embargo, las interpretaciones que sobre ella se pergeñaron no siempre tuvieron resonancias negativas. En términos generales, bien puede decirse que hasta el siglo XVII las alteraciones psíquicas, especialmente los estados melancólicos, se relacionaron con la posesión demoníaca y la brujería; dicha relación fue asimismo asumida y defendida por el discurso médico.

La locura “sagrada”, también llamada “delírio religioso”, se consideró una consequencia de la “posesión divina”. En este sentido, las cuatro categorias de “furor” (poético, místico, profético y amoroso) propuestas por el neoplatonismo florentino se vincularon todas ellas con la sabiduría. Asimismo, se incluyeron dentro de este “delírio religioso” aquellos comportamientos o actuaciones realizados por personas que se imaginaban “instrumentos de Dios”; en muchos de esos casos se trataba probablemente de cuadros histéricos con convulsiones, éxtasis, temblores e, incluso, automutilaciones.

Las posesiones demoníacas se manifestaban también en alteraciones de la conducta, pseudodelirios, cuadros convulsivos y, de manera específica, en el marco de la melancolía; en este último caso, se suponía que la intervención diabólica obedecía a aumento de la bilis negra - humor seco y húmedo - que terminaría por consumir al afectado.

Más que ninguna otra, las creencias y los elementos simbólicos sirvieron en esta época para explicar la naturaleza de la locura. En este sentido, la popular “piedra de la locura” concitó un buen numero de interpretaciones concretas de la patologia mental; muchas de ellas la representaron como un objeto material que había que expulsar o extraer. El origen de la creencia puede estar en las sangrías practicadas en las venas de la frente o en las trepanaciones craneales. Mas conviene recordar, no obstante, que esa concepción popular motivaba también algunas criticas, como la que se desprende del famoso cuadro de Brueghel en el que se representa la extracción de la piedra de locura: al cargar su pintura de simbolos sarcásticos, Brueghel parece enfatizar que esas extracciones constituian maniobras proprias de charlatanes. Por lo demás, las peregrinaciones a lugares determinados, las procesiones de danzantes o la existencia de santos - o sus reliquias - capaces “curar” la locura estuvieron, lógicamente, asociadas a interpretaciones del mal surgidas todas ellas del estrambótico magma de intereses en el que se sentaban las creencias del incipiente Mundo Moderno.

Cuadro de Pieter Brueghel (tema: la extracción de la piedra de la locura)

Artículo de José Maria Alvaréz.

MONSIEUR VALABREGA: A third notion, due to Fechner, the psychic...

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:36:55 -0300

MONSIEUR VALABREGA: A third notion, due to Fechner, the psychic locality of the dream being different from the locality of the representation of waking life. There follows the construction of the psychic apparatus. This apparatus is constituted of various systems, which one doesn’t have to, Freud tells us, give a spatial order, but rather an order of temporal succession.

As a consequence, one musn’t believe in the spatiality of the schema. It is a temporal topography. This is the first schema of the apparatus. It possesses a direction—the psychical process always goes from the perceptual extremity, Pcpt. to M., the motor. Immediately after, there’s a first differentiation. The perceptual excitations received by the subject must leave a trace there, a memory.

Now, the Pcpt. system, perception has no memory whatsoever. One must therefore distinguish between a Mnem’. system and the Pcpt. system. When there have been simultaneous perceptions, there will be a simultaneous connection of the traces—that is the phenomenon of association.

But there exist other connections than the associative one. So it therefore becomes necessary to allow for several Mnem. systems-Mnem, Mnem’, Mnem”, etc. It would be pointless. Freud says, to try to determine the number, or even wish to do so. Consider the diagram.

The text is really rather pithy—The first of these Mnem. systems will naturally contain the record of association in respect to simultaneity in time; while the same perceptual material will be arranged in the later systems in respect to other kinds of coincidence, so that one of these later systems, for instance will record relations of similarity, and so on with the others.

—Valabrega’s Presentation of the psychic apparatus in The Interpretation of Dreams. 2 March 1955, Lacan’s second year of seminars at Sainte-Anne Hospital ‘54-‘55

"Lacan used to say, ‘To love is to give what you haven’t got.’ Which means: to love is to recognize..."

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:53:38 -0300

“Lacan used to say, ‘To love is to give what you haven’t got.’ Which means: to love is to...

Nicola in the Psychiatric home -: The Beauty of Youth - La...

Sat, 11 Jun 2011 12:42:30 -0300

Nicola in the Psychiatric home -: The Beauty of Youth - La Meglio Gioventu.

STOP DSM

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:58:00 -0300

POR UNA PSICOPATOLOGÍA CLÍNICA, QUE NO ESTADÍSTICA (spanish) MANIFEST A FAVOR D´UNA PSICOPATOLOGIA...

The unconscious is extra-psychological. As Freud is at pains to point out when he comes to write his...

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:09:00 -0300

The unconscious is extra-psychological. As Freud is at pains to point out when he comes to write his...

"‘Subject’ is not a name for the gap of freedom and contingency that infringes upon the positive..."

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 22:47:53 -0300

“‘Subject’ is not a name for the gap of freedom and contingency that infringes upon the...

Beatriz Artist: Virgínia Rodrigues Album: Recomeço (2008)

Sat, 04 Jun 2011 13:46:00 -0300

Beatriz

Artist: Virgínia Rodrigues

Album: Recomeço (2008)