#lacan — Public Fediverse posts

Why Lacan Loved Harpo Marx

"Harpo is an automatic object-machine that converts both the world and himself into a polymorphously perverse source of jouissance.”

https://daily.jstor.org/why-lacan-loved-harpo-marx/

#Lacan #MarxBrothers

Perché la guerra? Una riflessione psicoanalitica

https://rizomatica.noblogs.org/2026/02/marin-perche-guerra-riflessione-psicoanalitica/

La strutturale ambivalenza emotiva del soggetto umano, i meccanismi di difesa della negazione e della proiezione, la sintomatologia depressiva e maniacale, nonchè le figure cliniche della melanconia e della parano

#Politica #Rizoma #aggressivit #fornari #freud #guerra #inconscio #lacan #morte #odio #pacifismo #paranoia #psicanalisi #violenza

Perché la guerra? Una riflessione psicoanalitica

https://rizomatica.noblogs.org/2026/02/marin-perche-guerra-riflessione-psicoanalitica/

La strutturale ambivalenza emotiva del soggetto umano, i meccanismi di difesa della negazione e della proiezione, la sintomatologia depressiva e maniacale, nonchè le figure cliniche della melanconia e della parano

#Politica #Rizoma #aggressivit #fornari #freud #guerra #inconscio #lacan #morte #odio #pacifismo #paranoia #psicanalisi #violenza

cose sull'”io”, ancora (anche se…)
https://noblogo.org/differx/in-rete-si-legge-ogni-tanto-qualche-sonora-baggianata-sullio-e-la-ricerca con rinvio a https://slowforward.net/2025/12/20/carmelo-bene-soggetto-vs-io/
(anche
https://differx.noblogs.org/2025/12/21/cose-sullio-ancora-anche-se/
#differx #TestiDiMgOnline #audio #audiodifferx #Bene #CarmeloBene #cb #DavicoBonino #io #IoIntegro #je #Lacan #Mixer #moi #Raboni #soggetto #SoggettoDellinconscio #TestiDiMgInRete #TestiDiMgOnline

At some point you had to pick a direction and start swimming: the philosophical anthropology of commitment

I’m slightly haunted by this passage from Lee Cole’s Fulfilment, pg 181-182:

“Love at first sight” made for a good story, but it hadn’t felt that way, not if she was honest with herself. It had felt more like “safety at first sight.” Her father had told her a story once about a time he’d nearly drowned. He’d been swimming in the ocean when the tide came in and he’d lost sight of the shore. For a long time, he treaded water, panic rising, knowing that if he swam in the wrong direction, he would be doomed. Completely disoriented, he decided to pick a point in the distance and start swimming. Soon the thin white line of the beach appeared, the long seagrasses swept back by the wind. Panting, on his hands and knees, he had kissed the sand. This story of her father’s was the closest she came to an explanation. The decade of her twenties had been a blur of intoxication and boredom, of sex with people who cared nothing about her, and about whom she cared even less. She’d been treading water for a long time when she found herself at Beaver’s Tavern on the night in question. At some point, you had to pick a direction and start swimming, and this is what she had done.

There’s also an intellectual challenge in this to a philosophical anthropology of concerns and commitments. This captures in narrative form why I feel the need to stage a dialogue between Lacanian psychoanalysis and the realist approach to reflexivity. What the lofty vocabulary of ‘concerns’ and ‘commitments’ fails to recognise is that sometimes people just choose, rather than reflect on what matters to them and what is worthy of their commitment. Those choices then supply their own narrative which can systematically obscure the actual genesis of the commitment which feels solid and meaningful.

In a sense Bourduesian sociology gets this in a way which the realist approach to reflexivity doesn’t but it oversocialises it by incorporating into habitus. Whereas a Lacan approach would I think take the moment of choice here seriously, albeit with the caveat that it’s within a psychic machinery that leaves the person with no choice but to choose i.e. the object of choice is so compelling in that moment, the possession of which would seem to so obviously solve all the problems, that they must of course ‘start swimming’.

To simply ascribe this to habitus misses the psychic texture of the experience, the contingent working out of anxiety, loss and desire in how someone chooses the direction in which they begin to swim. It turns crisis into continuity and fails to recognise the real sense that one must swim or one will drown, at least in that moment.

My point here is not to reject the grammar of commitment but rather to make it psychoanalytically robust. It’s important and shouldn’t be surrendered but I increasingly think it’s (wilfully?) ignorant of a large dimension of human experience.

https://soundcloud.com/frxgxd/philosophy-of-happiness-and-well-being

#archer #bourdieu #commitment #concern #habitus #Lacan #LeeCole #psychoanalysis #sayer #taylor

[r] _ carmelo bene: frammento audio su io e soggetto (dell’inconscio) nel libro “‘l mal de’ fiori”

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https://slowforward.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cb_-frammento-su-io-e-soggetto-ne-l-mal-de-fiori.mp3
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per chi desidera ascoltare l’intero intervento di CB, raccolto da Doriano Fasoli nel maggio 2000:

Un’intervista di Fasoli a CB è leggibile all’indirizzo https://www.riflessioni.it/conversazioni_fasoli/carmelo_bene_2.htm oppure in formato pdf qui: https://slowforward.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/doriano-fasoli-intervista-carmelo-bene.pdf
& https://slowforward.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/doriano-fasoli-intervista-carmelo-bene_-giugno-2005.pdf

Quindi fare i conti col linguaggio senza un io. Un iismo. Quello lo lasciamo agli asini.
Ma non se ne può più d’uno stucchevole degli affetti, dell’anima bella, della “postal cartolin”, degli innamorati. Tutto ciò appartiene a un codice dell’imbecillità, della mediocrità…
Nel dopo-Joyce, …per esempio, l’identità: tutta per aria. Salta tutto. È già saltata.

https://slowforward.net/2022/09/09/mal-de-fiori-cb-conversazione/

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#LMalDeFiori #Bompiani #CarmeloBene #cb #DorianoFasoli #io #Lacan #messaggiAiPoeti #poema #poesia #porno #soggetto #soggettoDellInconscio #utiliSussidi #vediamoSeRiescoASpiegarmi

I am seriously considering setting him up with a Twitter account. The world needs to hear what he say to say:

That shiny new high-rise may look perfect, but it's just hiding the cracks in your soul. Stop chasing facades and start facing your true self, warts and all. #AuthenticityMatters #EmbraceYourFlaws

You keep building these grand life plans like they'll bring you happiness, but you're just trapping yourself in a maze of your own making. Let go of the blueprints and start living in the present. #LetGoofControl #LiveNow

Chasing after someone to complete you is like trying to fill a black hole with love. Stop looking for your "other half" and start learning to love your whole, imperfect self. #SelfLoveisKey #YouAreEnough

Words, words, words - they're just smoke and mirrors hiding the raw truth of your experience. Cut through the noise and start connecting with the world directly, without the filter of language. #SilenceIsPower #ExperienceOverExplanation

https://markcarrigan.net/2024/05/09/my-favourite-claude-character-yet-the-lacanian-psychoanalyst-who-packed-it-in-to-become-a-motivational-influencer/

#AuthenticityMatters #claude #EmbraceYourFlaws #ExperienceOverExplanation #Lacan #LetGoofControl #LiveNow #psychoanalysis #SelfLoveisKey #SilenceIsPower #TonyRobbins #YouAreEnough

Today is the birthday of the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and the Marxist philosopher György Lukács. https://www.dustinjbyrd.org
#Freud #Lacan #Lukacs #philosophy #Marx #academia #academicmastodon #psychoanalysis

Hello @Mastodon! My #introduction:

I'm a #francophile (fluent in #French) and a massive #Prince fan living in #Minnesota. I am a #podcast host and an aspiring #writer of #SF and #poetry. I'm a non-practicing #Lutheran (ELCA) and a loyal #Democrat.

I'm in a wheelchair with #CerebralPalsy. I love #NFL football, especially the #Vikings. I also love #MLB, especially the #Twins. I'm interested in #PsychoanalyticTheory (mostly #Freud and #Lacan), #CriticalTheory, #semiotics, and #CinemaTheory.