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“The objet a is something from which the subject, in order to constitute itself, has separated itself off as organ. This serves as a symbol of the lack, that is to say, of the phallus, not as such, but in so far as it is lacking.”
Jacques Lacan, Seminar XI @abstractsunday
“I have a passion for curing people ... To get to the bottom of things.” Sigmund Freud, circa 1856 - 1939
“Relax, everyone talks to their dog”
“Yes, I know, but they don’t usually respond”
@Tutehumor
Fine writers do psychoanalysis:
“There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.”
Edgar Allan Poe, Ligeia, 1838
It is Edgar’s birthday today - he would be 214. Vale. @hafaellart
Sigmund Freud (and Sigmund Freud), circa 1895: “I had a dream”
The NLS Congress Blog has opened!
There are six themes under the Congress heading of Discontent and Anxiety in the Clinic and Civilisation:
Im-monde (A-world)
Anxiety
Object
At War
Living
Sexes
https://t.co/j0kQYWp4Fa @NLS_AMP
“I see abundance (abundancia)”
“Are you serious?”
“Ah, no, ambulance (ambulancia)”
@Tutehumor
“The subject is the entire system and, perhaps, something in the system. The Other is the same, he is constructed in the same way, and this is why he is able to relay my discourse.”
Jacques Lacan, Seminar V, Formations of the Unconscious https://t.co/sjeC7Osdot @AMartinakis
“Every Wednesday, I organise meetings at my house.”
Sigmund Freud in 1902. These meetings morphed into the International Psychoanalytic Association.
Salvador Dalí managed to visit his hero Sigmund Freud in London in 1938.
Their meeting was cool; Dalí was nervous, and Freud did not enjoy surrealist art.
Dalí unrolled his recently completed canvas, Metamorphosis of Narcissus. Freud stared at it “with a fixity in which ...