Fine writers do psychoanalysis:

“He took it for granted that she was content; and she resented his settled calm, his serene dullness, the very happiness she herself brought him.”

Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

Flaubert was born today in Rouen in 1821

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“The analyst says to whomever is about to begin: ‘Away you go, say whatever, it will be marvellous’.”

Jacques Lacan, Seminar XVII, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis

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“In the subject who, alternately, reveals himself and conceals himself by means of the pulsation of the unconscious, we apprehend only partial drives.”

Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, , Trivia No. 8

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Fine Kierkegaards do psychoanalysis:

“One sticks one's finger into the soil to tell by the smell in what land one is: I stick my finger in existence — it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? How came I here? What is this thing called the world? What does ...

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Fine philosophers do psychoanalysis:

“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.”

Tomorrow at the Lacan Circle Special Event: https://t.co/gbiwd13tIA

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“One speaks alone unless one enters into a dialogue with a psychoanalyst.”

Jacques Lacan, Seminar XXIV, L´insu que sait de l´une-bevue s´aile a mourre, Love Is the Failure of the Unbewoops (title trans: Dan Collins), 1977

Oskar Schlemmer, Concentric Group, 1925

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Vintage comics do psychoanalysis...

“You can tell if I like you by the amount of pressure I use to push my boobs against you as we hug...”

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Vintage comics do psychoanalysis...

“Darling, you’ve got such a sweet face and I can’t tell you the things I’d like to do with it - if only there was such a thing as a sexual relation”

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NO PSYCHOANALYSIS NEEDED i just like sharing my kins, https://t.co/nbh6ZmuHVi

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My turn hi everyone psychoanalyse me based on my top kins.. .. .. go easy on me /hj
(also don't bully me for kinning enstars characters PLS) https://t.co/bqQMqGlBpo

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“A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychoanalyst.”

Sigmund Freud, quoted by Joseph Wortis, in Fragments of an Analysis with Freud

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Vintage comics do psychoanalysis...

“Do you feel me thinking about you?”

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Where's Wally in psychoanalysis

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Fine literature does psychoanalysis:

“One never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting.”

Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

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“In psychoanalysis, a mother is one who has. She only falls under that concept insofar as she is plentiful. A true women, on the other hand, at least as Lacan makes her possible existence flicker, is one who doesn’t have - and who, by this ‘not having’, makes something. Thus ...

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Ghosts in psychoanalysis...

“It's difficult for me to exist”

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“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.

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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

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Switch to lacanian psychoanalysis Loid, we have free gastric ulcers!

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