Barbara Tholfsen Psychoanalyst with Lacanian predilections. The one behind Lacanian Foothold on Facebook [email protected]
One suburb of NYC.
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Freud’s unconscious is not at all
the romantic unconscious of imaginative creation.
Jacques Lacan S XI p 24
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“…in Lacanian psychoanalysis, the symptom has no face value: we never know what it implies”
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“the only criticism I have to make of you, if I may, is that you all want to appear too clever. Everybody knows you are. So why do you want to appear as such? And, in any case, what is so important, either about being or appearing to be so?”
-Lacan, to his students
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But the unconscious has nothing to do w the instinct or some archaic knowledge, nor w thoughts that would be prepared underground. It’s a thought w words, a thought that gets away from your vigilance, from your active monitoring state. It is as if a demon played w your vigilance.
“…in Lacanian psychoanalysis, the symptom has no face value: we never know what it implies”
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“The least one can say about discourse is that its meaning remains veiled.
In truth, what constitutes discourse is very precisely formed through the absence of this meaning.”
Jacques Lacan Seminar XIX ... or Worse
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It is up to you to be Lacanian if you wish.
I am a Freudian
Jacques Lacan
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love and desire are two different things
J Lacan
But the unconscious has nothing to do w the instinct or some archaic knowledge, nor w thoughts that would be prepared underground. It’s a thought w words, a thought that gets away from your vigilance, from your active monitoring state. It is as if a demon played w your vigilance.
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I don’t much like hearing that we have gone beyond Hegel,
the way one hears we have gone beyond Descartes.
We go beyond everything and always end up in the same place.
Jacques Lacan S II
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Sigmund Freud in his brother Alexander’s room at their mother Amalia’s house at Grünentorgasse 14, Vienna, in 1897.
Jakob Freud died at home the previous year, and Alexander and Dolfi Freud are living with their recently widowed mother.
Freud is 41 years old, has six children
love and desire are two different things
J Lacan
