Lacan in Australia

The trailer is here: Youtu.be/RlfooqeZcdY

Psychoanalysis at the movies “The people above won’t answer you.” “Why?” “Because they’re above, obviously.” Iván Massagué and Zorion Eguileor as cell-mates of the ‘Vertical Self-Management Center’ in the Spanish dystopian thriller ‘The Platform’ (El hoyo - The hole), 2019 ...

Jacques Prévert (1900 – 1977), Song of the Jailer Lacan describes visiting his friend Prévert during Seminar VII, and the latter’s extensive (and beautiful) match-box collection

Fine French poets on desire Where are you going handsome jailer With that key that’s touched with blood I am going to free the one I love If there’s still time She whom I’ve imprisoned Tenderly and cruelly In my most secret desire In my deepest torment ...

by personal contact with their more experienced members. As regards practical experience, apart from what he gains from his own personal analysis he can acquire it by carrying out treatments, provided that he can get supervision and guidance from recognised psychoanalysts.” SF

“The psychoanalyst can dispense entirely with the University without any loss to himself. What he needs in the matter of theory can be obtained from the literature of the subject and, going more deeply, at the scientific meetings of the psychoanalytic societies as well as ...

it doesn’t know what to do with. Thought is in disharmony with the soul.” Jacques Lacan, Television, A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment, 1974, page 6

“One ‘thinks’ as a consequence of the fact that a structure carves up one’s body, a structure that has nothing to do with anatomy - witness the hysteric. This shearing happens to the soul through the obsessional symptom; a thought that burdens the soul, that ...

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Fine writers on metaphors “For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.” George Eliot in Middlemarch, 1872

Jacques Lacan, Seminar VII, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, page 133, today: Lacaninaustralia.com/reading-seminar

but on the contrary a ‘Non-Thing’, and isn’t it through sublimation that one comes to see it as being ‘the Thing’? Lacan: “What you are saying strikes me as on the right track; it's obvious you follow my presentation of these questions without difficulty.”

Interlocutor: “The formula for sublimation that you have given us is ‘to raise the object to the dignity of the Thing’. This ‘Thing’ doesn’t exist to start with, because sublimation is going to bring us to it. The question I have is; isn’t this ‘Thing’ not really a thing ...

“A woman can but be excluded by the nature of things, which is the nature of words.” Jacques Lacan, Seminar XX, Encore, On Feminine Sexuality, The Limits of Love and Knowledge, page 73 @maivisto

“It is clear that we put the accent on the irreducible element in the instinct, on that which appears at the limit of a mediation and that reification is unable to encompass. But in encircling that something whose limits we explore, we are encircling the empty image.” JL, VII

“I don’t want us to make up theories. Theories should fall upon us as unexpected house guests whilst we are busy researching details.” Sigmund Freud to Sándor Ferenczi, 1915

“Justice is blind. Guilt sees everything.” The trailer is here: Youtu.be/EhkkBFhW-MM

Psychoanalysis at the movies “Mmm. Sometimes you try and do the right thing only to realise you got it all wrong.” Toni Collette being Assistant District Attorney Faith Killebrew in the legal thriller ‘Juror No. 2’, by Clint Eastwood, 2024 ...