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“The signifier, producing itself in the field of the Other, makes manifest the subject of its signification.”
Jacques Lacan, Seminar XI, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, 1964, page 207
Psychoanalysis at the movies
“A person should feel like he’s one individual. I feel like I’m many different people.”
Jean-Paul Belmondo being Ferdinand (Pierrot) in Pierrot le Fou, by Jean-Luc Godard, 1965
Ferdinand is an unhappily married and disillusioned intellectual who...
Fine writers on the state of things:
“The world is coming to an end. The only reason it might endure is that it exists.”
Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), ‘Fusées’ (Rockets), from his posthumously published notebooks, ‘Journaux intimes’.
Collage by Alain Chemali.
Fine painters on the moment
“I need more canvases, as the only way of achieving something is to start a new one for each different kind of weather.”
Claude Monet from London to his wife Alice.
Monet painted the British Houses of Parliament 15 times over five years.
“Man is captivated by the image of his body so he corpo-reifies his world, he makes it a thing in the image of his body.
It is by means of the gaze that this body carries weight.
The majority – but not all – of what man thinks stems from there.”
Jacques Lacan
Adam Pesti
Fine writers on death
“And all at once she thought of the man crushed by the train the day she had first met Vronsky, and she knew what she had to do.”
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1877), Part VII, Chapter 31
“To make oneself the guarantor of the possibility that a subject will in some way be able to find happiness, even in analysis, is a form of fraud.
There’s absolutely no reason why we should make ourselves the guarantors of the bourgeois dream.
A little more rigour ...
and firmness are required in our confrontation with the human condition.”
Jacques Lacan, Seminar VII, Ethics, page 303 Lacaninaustralia.com/reading…
Dairo Vargas, Love Sonnet, 2021
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Fine writers on unsubstantiality:
“But when we sit together, close,” said Bernard, “we melt into each other with phrases.
We are edged with mist.
We make an unsubstantial territory.”
Virginia Woolf, The Waves (1931).
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Sigmund Freud wrote to Romain Rolland during his summer holiday of 1929 as he drafted his major paper, Civilisation and Its Discontents:
My dear Friend,
Your letter containing your remarks about a feeling you describe as “oceanic” has left me no peace.
It happens that ...
from abusing it by dropping me a friendly line.
Please bear in mind that I always think of you with feelings of most respectful friendship.
Very sincerely yours
Freud
Freud is pictured during his family holiday at Schneewinkellehen, near Lake Königssee in the