Fish in psychoanalysis... “I fell in love with a cat”

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Vintage comics do psychoanalysis...

“We’ll always have EACH OTHER.”

“That’s what WORRIES ME.”

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This year we had our 3rd Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult conference Visionary Medium: Psychoanalysis and the Magic of Cinema in Copenhagen. Huge thanks to all those who participated this year! https://t.co/q2aUgOvHVH

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“The unconscious is always manifested as that which vacillates in a split in the subject.”

Jacques Lacan, Seminar XI, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis

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“The result of an analysis for a subject is to give priority, preference and dominance to the objet a over the ideal.” Psychoanalysis, The City and Communities https://t.co/oVDSLLCR0B

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Snoopy does psychoanalysis...

“If you think about something at three o’clock in the morning and then again at noon the next day, you get different answers.”

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Vintage comics do psychoanalysis...

“You should find someone who shares your interests...”

“I HATE my interests.”

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Charlie Brown does psychoanalysis:

“Nothing makes the afternoon pass quicker than a good cry of anguish!”

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In short,
half-saying
is the internal law
of every species of
enunciation of the truth,
and what incarnates it best is myth.
Jacques Lacan, Seminar XVII, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, 1485

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“I’ve quit my job, left my boyfriend and moved house … the only thing I’ve got left to change is my psychoanalyst!”

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Fine philosophers do psychoanalysis:

When you stare
into the abyss
the abyss stares
back at you.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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he's drinking his walnut milk while he psychoanalyses you

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“But there is a real at stake in the very training of psychoanalysts. We hold that existing societies be founded on this real. We also start from the fact, which is quite apparent, that Freud wanted them to be as they are. The fact is no less obvious – and for us conceivable ...

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“Every beginner in psychoanalysis probably feels alarmed at first at the difficulties in store for him when he comes to interpret the patient’s associations and to deal with the reproduction of the repressed. When the time comes, however, he soon learns to look upon these ...

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“Psychoanalysis cannot harmonise the fissures of erotic life any more than anything else can.”

David Ferraro LCA

Art by Cecily Brown, The Girl Who Had Everything

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“Lacan is true to Freud when he states that there is no sexual relation. His formula preserves the irreducibility of what Freud designated as castration. It is a fact that psychoanalysis does not bring about the sexual relation. For Freud this was cause for despair. Lacan ...

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Vintage comics do psychoanalysis...

“I’ve missed you, Satan.”

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Santa in psychoanalysis...

‘I want this, I want that!’ It's never ‘Gee, Santa, what would you like for Christmas this year?’

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“Given how late it is, I can only provide a quick indication of the following – that concerning what is involved in everything that is called marriage, it would be a good rule for the psychoanalyst to tell himself on this score, let them muddle through as best they can.” JL XIX

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