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“These patients whom I analysed had enjoyed good mental health up to the moment at which an occurrence of incompatibility took place in their ideational life - that is to say, until their ego was faced with an experience, an idea or a feeling which aroused such a distressing
It's because man has words that
he has knowledge of things.
And the number of things
he has knowledge of
corresponds to the
number of things
he is able to
name.
JL III
Fine literature does psychoanalysis:
“One never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting.”
Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
“The perversions play from some angle with the significant object insomuch as it is, in itself, and by its very nature, a true signifier, that is to say, something that in no case whatsoever can be taken at face value.”
Jacques Lacan, Seminar IV, The Object Relation
“In psychoanalysis, a mother is one who has. She only falls under that concept insofar as she is plentiful. A true women, on the other hand, at least as Lacan makes her possible existence flicker, is one who doesn’t have - and who, by this ‘not having’, makes something. Thus ...