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“What, in the final analysis, is the enigma of the Oedipus complex? Freud highlights that it is not simply the fact that the subject wants to kill his father and rape his mother, but that this desire comes to dwell in the unconscious. And it so clearly dwells ...
Fine artists do psychoanalysis:
“Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.”
Paul Klee, Creative Confession, 1920
Paul Klee, A Guardian Angel Serves a Small Breakfast, taken from his 1920 yearbook, Joy: Papers for a New Consciousness
Klee’s diaries and ...
The barred subject
is unable to attain
his sexual partner,
who is the Other,
except inasmuch
as his partner is
the cause of
his desire.
JL XX
Painting by @dimitramilan
“Interpretation, the essence of which is homophonic word-play, is the return of speech to writing, that is to say, the return of each present statement to its inscription, to its enunciation by the subject supposed to know.”
Jacques Lacan, Sem XXII, RSI https://t.co/oVDSLLCR0B
“If a man who thinks he is a king is mad, a king who thinks he is a king is no less so.”
Jacques Lacan, Presentation on Psychical Causality
Samuel Theodore Gericke, Alliance of Three Kings (Augustus the Strong of Saxony, Frederick I of Prussia & Frederick IV of Denmark), 1709
“The cowardice of men is the cowardice that is well hidden, they are so cowardly that they hide cowardice itself; that is to say that they go fighting in a place other than in the relationship of the sexes: in the field of knowledge, they debate, they ...
Sigmund Freud in a sinking ship:
“Vienna at the start of the 20th century is also the end of a world.”
“You remember, I hope, the formula that I chose for you, namely, that to love is always to give what one doesn’t have, and not to give what one has.”
Jacques Lacan, Seminar V, Formations of the Unconscious https://t.co/sjeC7Osdot