AChakra

“Investigate the caesura” W. Bion, 1977

[Lacan in Australia @LacanInAust]

Jacques Lacan, Guiding Remarks for a Convention on Female Sexuality, Écrits

[Hesse Philosophy @HermannHessed]

“I have spent a fortune traveling through distant lands, in seeing the high mountains, the oceans... yet I forgot to look just two steps from my own door, at a dewdrop on a single blade of grass.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

[AChakra @AChakra]

First things first - and first is The Frame.

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

✍️ My new Monday post is up

❝ The patient may not fully ‘know’ that their mind or body belongs to them and that access to either occurs by invitation and consent.

Read free 👇
https://t.co/zRZthjkmGu

[Lacan in Australia @LacanInAust]

“I’m not surprised that something of a misunderstanding remains to be dispelled, even in people who think they’re following me.

Don’t think I’m expressing any disappointment here.

That would be to be in disagreement with myself, since I teach you that misunderstanding is ...

[Béa Gonzalez (sophiacycles) @SophiaCycles]

The only sentence that matters--
'They lived and laughed and loved and left.'~James Joyce, Ulysses

[Still On The Road @StillOnTheRoad_]

Bob speaks in @nytimes

[Lacan in Australia @LacanInAust]

Fine philosophers on retroaction

“It is really true what philosophy tells us, that life must be understood backwards.

But with this, one forgets the second proposition, that it must be lived forwards.

A proposition which, the more it is subjected to careful thought ...

[AChakra @AChakra]

“And another thing: your Time Machine appears to have no proper provisions for music.
What sort of engineer designs a vehicle capable of traversing millennia but incapable of
transporting a respectable dance band? Frankly, it is amateur work.”

[Mahsun Mirzaoglu @MahsunMirzaoglu]

“Her anlama bir yanlış anlamadır." Lacan

Karşımızdakini "tamamen anladığımızı" sandığımız an, onu aslında sadece kendi arzumuza uydurmuşuzdur. iletişim bir yanlış anlamadır; çünkü biz ötekinin gerçekliğini değil, onun yüzeyinde kendi yansımamızı okuruz.

[Cooper Davis @Cooperdavis]

Why aren’t you bombadilmaxxing yet?

“In April 1954, Tolkien wrote:

"The story is cast in terms of a good side, and a bad side, beauty against ruthless ugliness, tyranny against kingship… but both sides in some degree, conservative or destructive, want a measure of control.But if you have, as it were, taken a 'vow of poverty', renounced control, and take your delight in things for themselves without reference to yourself… then the questions of the rights and wrongs of power and control might become utterly meaningless to you, and the means of power quite valueless…"

So, Bombadil is a representation of what it means to take pure delight in the world around you — to experience people and things simply as they are, without any thought for what they could be or how you could use them. And this is why the Ring has no power over him.”

[Søren Kierkegaard Club @Kierkegaarddd]

“If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.”

[David Puder M.D. @DavidPuder]

“There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar” (Lee in East of Eden by John Steinbeck) *picture is my oil pastel attempt at JS

[TSN @TSN_Sports]

The World Lives Here.

Canada is all together different. Truly unique. And so is our relationship to the beautiful game. This is our opening to the 2026 World Cup. Narrated by Kiefer Sutherland. #FIFAWorldCup

[AChakra @AChakra]

Miss that moment when the philosophers of psychiatry were all sharing thoughts aloud on twitter. Winds of change. Grateful I caught it. Affected me deeply.

[Awais Aftab @awaisaftab]

Whereof One Cannot Speak: Richard Gipps on Madness and Rational Understanding

https://t.co/0gDRs1cfei

[Cora @Coranalyste]

« L’inquiétante étrangeté surgit souvent et aisément chaque fois ou les limites entre imagination et réalité s'effacent, ou ce que nous avions tenu pour fantastique s'offre à nous comme réel, ou un symbole prend l'importance et la force de ce qui était symbolisé. »
Sigmund Freud

[Søren Kierkegaard Club @Kierkegaarddd]

“The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.”

[AChakra @AChakra]

https://t.co/JJmrwxlwS9

[AChakra @AChakra]

“… probably there exists no
firmly established science which does not, as a separate branch of knowledge,
recapitulate the following phases: first, enlightenment, accompanied by
exaggerated optimism, then the inevitable disappointment and, finally, a
reconciliation between the two affects. I really do not know whether I envy our
younger colleagues the ease with which they enter into possession of that
which earlier generations won by bitter struggles. Sometimes I feel that to
receive a tradition, however valuable, ready-made is not so good as achieving
something for oneself.” S. Ferenczi, 1929.

[AChakra @AChakra]

“Recognition of the surrounding world, i.e. affirmation of the
existence of something unpleasant, is, however, only possible after defence
against objects which cause 'pain' and denial of them are given up, and their
stimuli, incorporated into the ego, transformed into inner impulses. The power
that effects this transformation is the Eros that is liberated through instinctual
defusion.” S. Ferenczi, 1926

[Lacan in Australia @LacanInAust]

Lou Andreas-Salomé wrote to Sigmund Freud in 1916:

Dear Professor,

I am grateful that fate has not let anything of yours get lost in the post (WWI was in progress), and at your suggestion I now send you another copy of my letter on the subject of your paper ‘The Unconscious’...