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“With symbolic indebtedness, imaginary detriment, and real absence – the hole – we have what allows us to locate these three elements that we shall call the three terms of reference for the lack of the object. I’m saying ‘lack of object’ and not ‘object’ because if we ...
"Now now, let's not get sidetracked. The aim of these sessions is to criticise my husband, not me"
“Even though psychoanalysis is revolutionary, I am a conservative myself. I don't like change. I wrote all my correspondence myself. 20,000 letters!”
Sigmund Freud in his Berggasse 19 study with Lün Freud, his books, his antiquities, his mirror and a very big pen.
Fine musicians do psychoanalysis:
“Music has given me extraordinary experiences, but I can't say that life's pains or more tragic episodes have been diminished because of it. It's been both my doorway of perception and the house that I live in.”
David Bowie: words and art
“Ferdinand de Saussure found himself perplexed by a literary mystery. Investigating the Saturnine verses on 3rd century BC Roman tombstones, he discovered repeating patterns of phonemes in whose sounds he heard uncanny echoes of the deceased’s name. These anagrams or ...
“One cannot finish off someone who is a man as if he were a dog. One cannot be finished with his remains simply by forgetting that the register of being of someone who was identified by a name has to be preserved by funeral rites. Antigone invokes no other right than ...
“The mother is not simply the person who offers the breast; she is also the one who gives the seal of signifying articulation, by revealing to her child the function of symbols qua revealing. In making something disappear and reappear – her own face, for example, by covering ...