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“The person who aspires to be loved is not at all satisfied, as is well known, with being loved for their attributes.
They demands to be loved as far as the complete subversion of the subject into a particularity can go.
To love is to love a being beyond what ...
Fine poets on loving
And why not? Between what we were, and
are going to be, is who and how we best love.
Philip Booth, ‘So’, 1990
Booth (1925 – 2007) lived and wrote in Castine, Maine, population 1000, in a house that has been in his mother’s family for five generations.
Psychoanalysis at the movies
Jesse to Céline: “Yeah, sure. You know, I know happy couples. But I think they lie to each other.”
Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy in ‘Before Sunrise’, by Richard Linklater, 1995
The trailer is here: Youtu.be/6MUcuqbGTxc
What appears
on bodies in the
enigmatic form of
sexual characteristics,
which are merely secondary,
makes sexed beings.
Jacques Lacan
Rainer Fetting
“The strange thing is that Freud thought he did science.
He didn’t do science.
He was in the process of producing a certain practice that can be characterised as the last flower of medicine.
This last flower found refuge here because medicine had so many means of operating ...
all catalogued in advance, regulated like lines of music notation on a page, that it had to bump up against the fact that there were symptoms that had nothing to do with the body, but only with the fact that the human is afflicted, if I can say this, by language.
Through this
“It must not be forgotten that this is where Freud began and that he acknowledged what it is that remains at the centre of his question:
‘What does a woman want?’”
Jacques Lacan, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis
Painting by Pablo Picasso, ‘Reclining Nude’, 1932
On this day in 1904 Virginia Woolf wrote to her close friend, confidante, maternal figure and literary mentor, Violet Dickinson:
“I long for a large room to myself, with books and nothing else, where I can shut myself up, and see no one, and read myself into peace.” ...
Fine actors on marriage
“The first seven days were pretty good. The eighth day was the bad one.”
Dennis Hopper on his eight-day marriage with Michelle Phillips (of the folk-rock group ‘The Mamas & the Papas’) in October 1970.
Hopper was photographed in Berlin in 1980.
Psychoanalysis at the movies
“Maybe he’ll be able to save my soul and all that.”
Christina Ricci (Selby) to Charlize Theron (Aileen Wuornos - the American serial killer) in Monster, 2003 ...
Their scene is here:
Clip.cafe/monster-2003/this-…
“There is no such thing as a sexual relationship because one’s jouissance of the Other, taken as a body, is always inadequate – perverse, on the one hand, insofar as the Other is reduced to object a, and crazy and enigmatic on the other.”
Jacques Lacan, Encore, Seminar XX
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
