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“Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counter-glance, between ‘I love you’ and ‘I love you too,’ the absent presence of desire comes alive. But the boundaries of time and glance and...
Sigmund Freud to his doctor in 1923:
"I can't think without my cigars."
He has just been diagnosed with cancer of the jaw.
Freud will continue smoking for the rest of his life - 16 years - and undergo approximately 30 surgical procedures.
“So, Sisyphus, where do you see yourself in five years’ time?”
“I must confess that I am not at all partial to the fabrication of worldviews. Such activities may be left to philosophers, who avowedly find it impossible to make their journey through life without a Baedeker of that kind to give them information on every subject. Let us ...
“Incredible, Rubén. Despite not having any expectations, I feel disappointed” @tutehumor
Tomorrow at the Lacan Circle Reading Group:
“Whenever we are dealing with a formation of the unconscious, we have to systematically search for what I call the debris of the metonymic object.”
Jacques Lacan, Formations of the Unconscious, page 44: https://t.co/sjeC7Osdot
Sigmund Freud: "Do you know the difference between communism and capitalism?" Unidentified colleague: "No." Sigmund Freud: "Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man..."
“The neuroses exhibit on the one hand striking and far-reaching points of agreement with those great social institutions, art, religion and philosophy. But on the other hand they seem like distortions of them. It might be maintained that a case of hysteria is a caricature of ...