"What we have to circumscribe [...] is the pre-existence of a gaze - I see only from one point, but in my existence I am looked @ from all sides"
- JL S.Xi 19 February 1964
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I love how you people - why are yoiu all in "sales" - take the symptoms of un-triggered paranoid psychosis & elevate them into virtues
Try to imagine actually having virtues if you can
Only the chronically ill, the genetic monstrosities, born looking for a place to die
Are not permitted to forget their "health"
The ones who appoint themselves gurus aren't for tjhat reason any healthier
Their pathology is simple a bit more morbid than their mass of lepers
The frequency w/ which the jargon "mental health" appears in this genre of "advice"
The constant repetition, orbiting around one's own "mental health", trapped in its gravitational field
Is proof you're all incurably sick. Hence your health is a constant concern
We are always responsible for our position as subjects. The error of good faith is the most unforgivable. The position of the psychoanalyst leaves no escape, since it excludes the tenderness of "the beautiful soul" #JacquesLacan Seminar XIII
There are no limits to the concessions a woman will make for her man, whether it be with her body, her soul, her possessions. The 'Lacanian' man, on the contrary, is heavily clogged, burdened & embarrassed by having, &, since he has something to lose, condemned to prudence. JAM
Scott Levy made Paul Heyman a "believer" in the Raven character when he threw out the lyrics
The world is full
of Kings & Queens
who blind your eyes
& steal your dreams
'Quote the Raven: Nevermore"
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Lacan's copy of Marguerite Duras's novel 'L'amante anglaise' (1967). In English, the dedication is: "For Sylvia and Jacques Lacan, with my friendship, Marguerite Duras". In December 1965, Lacan had published an essay on Duras's 'Le ravissement de Lol V. Stein'
Fine writers do psychoanalysis...
"People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
One wants to say, but what one wants to say is generally missed. Here is where the ear of the psychoanalyst intervenes insofar as he grasps something of what the other truly wanted to say. And what he wanted to say is generally not what is in the text. #JacquesLacan 1971
On 21 June 1956, Jacques Lacan sent an offprint of his 'Rome Discourse', which had just been published in the journal La Psychanalyse, to Jean Cocteau. In English, the dedication reads: "To Jean Cocteau, so that he can tell me where the poetry is here, JL 21 vi 56"
This illusion of unity, in which a human being is always looking forward to self-mastery, entails a constant danger of sliding back again into the chaos from which he started; it hangs over the abyss of a dizzy assent in which one can perhaps see the very essence of anxiety. JL
Diane von Furstenberg on Instagram: “When I met Madonna she was 19. Someone brought her to a party I was giving. She was hiding inside a big brown hat. No one knew who she was. She spent her evening talking to my mother who the next day told me ‘that girl has a big future!’”