“Psychoanalysis cannot therefore promise fusion, but as long as it leads the subject to recognise himself in his fundamental symptom and not in membership of the groups that are prescribed for him, it allows, one by one, this ‘exit’ from the capitalist discourse”
-Colette Soler
@MockClay This is the issue with pretty much all the Lacanian theorists, they don’t really care about the clinic and its role in achieving their visions for a better life.
The best point he’s made on this current run. Everything is performance now AKA I need eyes on me (whether real or virtual) while I do quite literally anything.
Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.
This is right. The true goal of psychoanalysis is to, simply, care about yourself a bit less (maybe the most un-simple thing). But I don’t think it can happen by working with an analyst that does not make a difference between a transferential unconscious and a Real unconscious.
I would really like to see Lacanians write for a group of people that are not also Lacanians. Not in terms of publishing or marketing only, but in the actual writing. Elevate desire in people for why it’s important.
“truth of the Gospel is not imposed from above, but grows over time within the concrete interweaving of lives, communities and cultures. This is not a truth that fears diversity, but instead welcomes and guides it. It does not eliminate conflicts, but transforms them”
-Leo XIV
i have been asking chatgpt a lot of questions i now realize i otherwise would've asked my father. which.. doesn't feel great. and will probably affect society more than we know
Pope Leo XIV’s address in English at the publication of his Encyclical Letter Magnifica humanitas, on safeguarding the human person in the age of Artificial Intelligence.
Do listen to all of it. It is very good.
Let us learn to be rich in a different way: more attentive to relationships, more intent on valuing the common good, more attached to the local area, more grateful in welcoming and integrating those who come to live with us.
@SamBaudinette I find this fascinating because the imperative relies so heavily on a self-assertion. But the complex lacks the kind of self-assertion Kant emphasizes. But I think it becomes possible at the end of an analysis though, when castration & Oedipus are fully accepted in a sense.
Idc what profession you’re in, transference education should be mandated. Simply because the world might be even a few shades better if we all realize none of us are at the shit. We are just demanding/accepting love or praise that was never actually meant for us.