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“At the end of an analysis one encounters remnants like condensed words that are being repeated. To say the same thing in an analysis is to come up against the real while at the same time wanting to move past it. In my analysis I often stumbled upon encounters with the ...
“The analysand appears as a kind of Diogenes with his lantern, but in search of woman rather than a man. For men are not hard to find. One might even take one for another without making much of a mistake.”
@jamplus 1980, Jacob Jordaens, Diogenes searching for an Honest Man, 1642
“The dreamer does not have a simple and unambiguous relationship to his wish. He rejects it, he censures it, he doesn't want it. Here we encounter the essential dimension of desire. It is always desire in the second degree: desire of desire.” Jacques Lacan, Sem VII, Ethics
“Topology is not a metaphor, but a rigorous montage with the objet a.” JL
Oskar Kokoschka, Self Portrait dancing with Alma Mahler, 1913. Kokoschka began a tumultuous affair with Alma Mahler in 1912; the year after Gustav’s death. In 1914 Alma rejected him & married Walter Gropius
Sigmund Freud, circa 1900: “I discovered the secret to understanding dreams!”
“Some dreams occur which, at a superficial view, may seem faultlessly logical and reasonable; they start from a possible situation, carry it on through a chain of consistent modifications and - though far less frequently - bring it to a conclusion which causes no surprise ...