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“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
“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"