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lacan-banal · 1 year
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““The mannerisms that help define gender - the way in which people walk,swing their hips, gesture with their hands, move their mouths and eyes when they talk, take up space - are all based upon how non disabled people move…The construct of gender depends not only upon the male body and female body, but also on the non disabled body.””
— Eli Clare, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
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lacan-banal · 2 years
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Anxiety is created when suddenly the child feels himself to be something that in one fell swoop can be completely sidelined. The ground falls away from under him upon his realisation that he can no longer fulfil his erstwhile function in any way whatsoever.
Lacan, Seminar IV
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lacan-banal · 2 years
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“The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorise, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital. The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have, i.e., the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being. Everything which the political economist takes from you in life and in humanity, he replaces for you in money and in wealth.”
— Marx - Human Requirements 1844
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lacan-banal · 2 years
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guilt, the limit of the Thing, the aim of psychoanalysis
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the subject is constituted by and exists via his construction through the signifying network. If this network is dissolved then his being vanishes, he in fact dies a second, or symbolic death as we saw Oedipus do when he did not give up on his desire. Repeating Lacan the subject is in a relationship with death since “ … it is in the signifier and insofar as the subject articulate a signifying chain that he comes up against the fact that he might disappear from the chain of what he is.” It is this castration, or death that happens at the limit of the Thing, or when one does not give up on ones desire. How does this come about? It comes about through the eradicating of the very support on which desire depends i.e. the fantasms. Lacan notes that it is rather in an imaginary function, and, in particular, that for which we will use the symbolization of the fantasm … which is the form on which depends the subject’s desire. … in not giving up on ones desire right up to the limit of the Thing what one achieves is the eradicating of the fantasms that propped up the desire with the result that beyond the barrier or limit one experiences jouissance.
… Thus we see how Lacan’s claim , “the only thing of which one be guilty is giving ground relative to one’s desire”, is related to the aims of psychoanalysis. The aims of psychoanalysis are not to make the subject happy, or give him the bourgeois dream. The aims of psychoanalysis are to make the subject assume his guilt in a heroic act.
…The subject must transgress the law and thus be prepared to take on guilt. To pursue desire the subject goes to the limit of the Thing .At the limit of the Thing the subject faces his own second death, or symbolic death, in that his being ceases to be. The subjects being is constructed and maintained through the signifying network. At the limit of the Thing this network is dissolved and thus his being is dissolved; he dies symbolically - he is castrated.
…This is the aim of psychoanalysis . In not giving up on his desire he crosses the barrier and pays the price in that he experiences the enjoyment of jouissance.
-COLIN LESLIE DEAN
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lacan-banal · 2 years
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The
unconscious
abolishes
the
subject.
Lacan (Seminar II, p 84)
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lacan-banal · 2 years
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The unconscious will never become a tourist attraction.
Cormac Gallagher
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lacan-banal · 2 years
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Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.
Marx
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lacan-banal · 2 years
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In psychoanalysis, the goal is to interpret—that is, to read—the message regarding desire that is harbored within the symptom.
What does Lacan show us? He shows us that desire is not a biological function; that it is not correlated with a natural object; and that its object is fantasized. Because of this, desire is extravagant. It cannot be grasped by those who might try to master it. It plays tricks on them. Yet if it is not recognized, it produces symptoms. In psychoanalysis, the goal is to interpret—that is, to read—the message regarding desire that is harbored within the symptom.
Bruce Fink - Desire and its Interpretation. The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book V. Polity. 2019.
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lacan-banal · 3 years
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The unconscious is that part of concrete discourse qua transindividual, which is not at the subject’s disposal in reestablishing the continuity of his conscious discourse.
Jacques Lacan – Écrits, p. 258
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lacan-banal · 3 years
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“suffering was used as a way of proving the injustice of existence, but at the same time as a way of finding a higher and divine justification for it. (It is blameworthy because it suffers, but because it suffers it is atoned for and redeemed.)”
— Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy (19)
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lacan-banal · 3 years
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“The misfortune is that although everyone must come to death, each experiences the adventure in solitude.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death
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lacan-banal · 3 years
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“psychoanalysis thrives on mistakes as access points or gateways to the unconscious.”
— Raul Moncayo, ‘Payment with One’s Person’ from “Evolving Lacanian Perspectives For Clinical Psychoanalysis" (via alterities)
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lacan-banal · 3 years
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“There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death
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lacan-banal · 3 years
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For us humans, life is a decision, an active obligation – we can lose the will to live.
This stance of “we have to live till we die” is the proper one to adopt today when the pandemic reminds all of us of our finitude and mortality, on how our life depends on an obscure interplay of (what appears to us as) contingencies. As we experience it almost daily, the true problem is not that we may die but that life just drags on in uncertainty, causing permanent depression, the loss of the will to go on.
Slavoj Žižek, 2021
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lacan-banal · 3 years
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lacan-banal · 3 years
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“Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.” ― Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
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lacan-banal · 3 years
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Jouissance is waste, or loss. It incarnates the very entropy produced by the working of the apparatus of the signifiers. However, precisely as waste, this loss is not simply a lack, an absence, something missing. It is very much there, as waste always is.
Alenka Zupančič, 2006
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