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The cure is a demand
that originates in the
voice of the sufferer,
of someone who suffers
from his body or his thought.
The astonishing thing is
that there be a response.
Jacques Lacan
Television
Egon Schiele
Self Portrait
“There is in every case a level at which things do not work out. It’s the level of those who have produced the effects of language, since no child is born without having to deal with this traffic by the intermediary of his beloved so-called progenitors, who were themselves ...
“Freud expresses in the plainest terms, in The Future of an Illusion, in Civilisation and Its Discontents, his repugnance at the idea of universal love.”
Jacques Lacan, Seminar XIX … or Worse
“Repetition. This does not mean that one redoes what one has finished, like digestion or some other physiological function. Repetition is the precise denotation of a trait that I have uncovered for you in Freud’s text as being identical with the unary trait, with the ...
“Kind of, I don't know, do you see? ... Let's see, ah, no, I mean, oh I don't know, because everything is fine but then nothing ... “
@tutehumor
“This is the principle of the castration complex: in order to have the phallus, in order to be able to make use of it, it is necessary precisely not to be it.”
Jacques Lacan, Seminar X, Anxiety
Art by André Masson (JL's brother-in-law), L'homme emblématique, The Emblematic Man
“These moments & places of anguish are distinguished precisely by being those at which the speaking being, reduced to its body, cannot situate itself within the world.”
Daniel Roy, @NLS_AMP President, Discontent & Anxiety in the Clinic & in Civilisation https://t.co/kW5qp3sRS6