Monthly Archives for October 2012
Lacan
Jacques Lacan “Thus the subject, too, if he can appear to be the slave of language, is all the more so of a discourse in the universal movement in which his place is already inscribed at birth, if only by virtue of his proper name.” The term ‘liberty’ comes to mind as I read this. … Continue reading Continue reading
Lacan
Jacques Lacan “Thus the subject, too, if he can appear to be the slave of language, is all the more so of a discourse in the universal movement in which his place is already inscribed at birth, if only by virtue of his proper name.” The term ‘liberty’ comes to mind as I read this. … Continue reading Continue reading
Lacan: still beastly
I tried to reread Lacan… and I got most of it done, but it is still a mystery. Or rather there is nothing in the text that would allow me to confirm that my reading is accurate, and especially that … Continue reading Continue reading
Impressions on “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” by Louis Althusser
I have to admit I sometimes – often – have a hard time to see the connection between the text we have to read and the question that, I think, is supposed to guide our reading : How can this text … Continue reading → Continue reading
Impressions on “L’instance de la lettre dans l’inconscient” by Jacques Lacan
What does not help to understand the text « L’instance de la lettre dans l’inconscient » by Jacques Lacan is that his examples or analogies rarely serve to simplify the text. That a boy and girl arrive by train in the HOMMES … Continue reading → Continue reading
Literature can’t be dead because it is always in a process of becoming.
I haven’t slept much this week because first I learned that literature is dead, and then I read that ideology/consciousness is determined by material circumstances. Let me deal with the first nightmare. Literature is dead! In another words, because we … Continue reading Continue reading
Literature can’t be dead because it is always in a process of becoming.
I haven’t slept much this week because first I learned that literature is dead, and then I read that ideology/consciousness is determined by material circumstances. Let me deal with the first nightmare. Literature is dead! In another words, because we … Continue reading Continue reading
Ideology and Ideological State Apparathusses
In Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses Althusser recovers Marx idea of the reproduction of the conditions of production in order to maintain these conditions of production. This reproduction is achieved by the reproduction of labor power which is ensured by giving labor power the material to reproduce itself, in other words by wages; and the […] Continue reading
Lacan
Understanding linguistics and psychoanalysis all in one text is not something that comes naturally to me, so I’m going to use this space to go ahead and try to make some sense of what I just read and, to the best of my ability, throw in a comment or two. What I understand as the […]
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Language and the unconscious – Lacan
To say that Lacan’s “The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason, Since Freud” is somewhat of a difficult read would be a gross understatement. Those not versed in the fundamentals of psychoanalysis or Freudian Psychology would most … Continue reading → Continue reading
