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Il n'y a pas de sens, sinon métaphorique.
Lacan ~ Séminaire V
Photo Thomas V.
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Il n'y a pas de sens, sinon métaphorique.
Lacan ~ Séminaire V
Photo Thomas V.
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Il n'y a pas de sens, sinon métaphorique.
Lacan ~ Séminaire V
Photo Thomas V.
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Il n'y a pas de sens, sinon métaphorique.
Lacan ~ Séminaire V
Photo Thomas V.
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Il n'y a pas de sens, sinon métaphorique.
Lacan ~ Séminaire V
Photo Thomas V.
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À #JacquesLacan, décédé ce jour-là en 1981, merci 🥀
#psychanalyse #psychoanalysis #Lacan -
À #JacquesLacan, décédé ce jour-là en 1981, merci 🥀
#psychanalyse #psychoanalysis #Lacan -
À #JacquesLacan, décédé ce jour-là en 1981, merci 🥀
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What is the difference between #Foucault and #Lacan in regard to norm-ativity? Pfauwadel situates Lacanian #psychoanalysis “on the other side of norms” as a subversive, non-normative praxis, theoretically & clinically. Lacan’s “discourse of the analyst” is the only counter-discourse to the master’s.
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I want to see something more here, something that transcends. But all I see is Yakov Smirnov, and I can't escape the sense that this failure in myself articulates an aporia that the absence of the Zizek of the 1990s would somehow be able to articulate.
Also, Vancouver for the US tour is a fabulous #parapraxis Dare I read it as the #problematic? (if you want to quote Lacan at me, I WILL block you unless Lefebvre makes a quotidian intervention, or better yet, David Gascoyne's very early footnote on Surrealism)
I'll stop now & show myself out. #zizek #lacan #criticaltheory
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The power of the signifier: why the power up sign is actually doing something real
After weeks of niggling injuries I returned to distance running this morning for the first time in a couple of months. I’d been widely assured that despite my catastrophising it really wasn’t possible to have lost much fitness and strength in eight weeks. Yet in practice it was newly exhausting to run a distance I could have done pretty casually back in May. It left me pining for something I saw a lot at the last competitive race I did:
Source: https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/2111131062705470/I really like these signs. Once I got over feeling silly about doing it, I found that tapping the power up does indeed make me feel powered up. What’s going on here? If you accept my experience that this is, at least mildly, energising then the obvious explanation is that it’s energising because it’s fun. But what does it mean for it to be fun? It’s fun because the signifier itself carries traces of past fun. For anyone who spent years playing Mario Kart the idea of a mushroom that you tap to go faster resonates with diffuse memories of hours playing a fun game, individually and in groups. The sense of acceleration in the game, particularly when you’re falling behind and a judiciously timed mushroom leaves you rushing back ahead, translates into the context of the race.
A sceptical voice in me points out that I actually start accelerating before I tap the mushroom. Part of the fun is rushing to tap the power up, before rushing forward newly powered up. But this in itself is a response to the signifier. It carries the capacity to induce a response which is in a real sense causal. It makes me think of Mari Ruti’s description in The Creative Self of “tiny morsels of jouissance latching themselves onto the underbellies of select signifiers so as to give them the kind of boost that enables them to resuscitate the domain of signification” (loc 1225). Each of those countless games of Mario Kart is a little barnacle attached to the underbelly of the mushroom on the sign, perfectly attuned to the libidinal economy of the race itself. It’s good to get a power up in a half marathon for pretty similar reasons to it being good to get a power up in a game of Mario Kart. The fact it’s offer in a spirit of support, such that solidarity is expressed through making and sharing the sign, amplifies this but I don’t think it creates it. I can’t think of another sign at a race that has had this effect. Occasionally good jokes make you laugh, which can in turn cheer you up if you’re feeling exhausted and miserable. But that’s more a situational response to occasional feelings of “why am I doing this to myself?” rather than something which directly acts on you in a libidinal sense.
I find the idea that the signifier itself as a causal power, albeit dependent on the individual’s past history of engagement with that signifier, vastly more plausible than a sceptical reading which suggests that at best this just people responding emotionally to a supportive crowd. Without engaging with the signifiers through which that support intervenes in the race, these are just general platitudes rather than specific claims about identifiable effects which forms of support have on particular runners. I find it interesting to think this through in relation to the mushroom sign because transposing a signifier from a racing game to a running race makes it easier to see the causal forces at work. It leaves the prior influences more easily legible than they would otherwise be. But one of the things I’ve learned from Lacan is that signifiers are working on us constantly, in often profound and idiosyncratic ways, in a manner which much sociology (particularly the school I was trained in for all its other virtues) is pretty incurious about and unresponsive to.
#crowds #distanceRunning #energy #halfMarathons #Jouissance #Lacan #racing #signifiers #support -
@courtcan How was it? I'm looking into getting a copy of *Looking Awry* by Žižek.
More generally, I'm looking for like-minded folks who read/know Jacques Lacan and Lacan-adjacent writers and thinkers. 25 years ago, my French professor/mentor applied Lacanian theory to books, films, and...well, everything. I was/still am fascinated by it, and I want to expand my knowledge/grasp of it.
#Lacan #Žižek #Philosopy #Books #CriticalTheory #Psychoanalysis
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Today is the day I begin reading THE SUBLIME OBJECT OF IDEOLOGY by Slavoj Žižek.
May any existing gods have mercy on my soul.
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#SlavojZizek
#Zizek
#agency
#Hegel
#Lacan
#Marx
#philosophy
#reading
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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 -
Liebe #Mastobubble , frage für eine Freundin wegen #Übersetzung aus dem Tschechischen:
Verwenden #Lacan und #Zizek das Wort »Lücke« (statt etwa Riss) bzw. verwenden es die deutschen Übersetzungen?
Gerne boosten.
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[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.pdfQuindi 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