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“This is what the myth of the Oedipus complex, necessary for Freud’s thought, expresses.
Look at it closely.
If he is obliged to procure the origin of the law in this mythical form, if there is anything that makes it the case that the law is founded on the father, it is ...
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necessary for the father to be murdered.
The two things are closely linked – the father, insofar as he promulgates the law, is the dead father, which is to say the symbol of the father.
The dead father is the Name-of-the Father, who is there, constructed over the content.
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This is quite essential.”
Jacques Lacan, Foreclosure of the Name-of-the-Father, Seminar V, Formations of the Unconscious, page 132
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Psychoanalysis at the movies
“I’m a vindictive little bitch, truth be told.”
Kate Winslet to Jim Carrey in ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’, 2004
The trailer is here: Youtu.be/07-QBnEkgXU
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“The reason for the ambiguity of hysterical revelation of the past is not so much the vacillation of its content between the imaginary and reality, for it is situated in both.
Nor is it the fact that it is made up of lies.
It is that it presents us with the birth of truth ...
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in speech, and thereby brings us up against the reality of what is neither true nor false.”
Jacques Lacan, The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis, Écrits, page 212
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“The internal or connecting link between desire and its interpretation in psychoanalytic practice has a feature that habit alone stops us from seeing – namely, the degree to which the interpretation of desire is already, in and of itself, subjective.”
Jacques Lacan, S VI, Desire
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“No, no, that’s not a sin, either.
My goodness, you must have worried yourself to death.”
By Charles Barsotti
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“Now if there is something which most – excuse me, I am going to say it! – instinctively repels the psychoanalyst, it is that knowing everything about psychoanalysis qualifies the psychoanalyst.
This is not without reason, very precisely because of the following.
It is not ...
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the right to posit himself as giving an evaluation of the experience of which he is properly speaking only the pivot and the instrument.
The status of the psychoanalyst as such depends on nothing other than the following:
That he offers himself to support, in a certain process
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of knowledge, this role of object of demand, or cause of desire, which means that the knowledge obtained can only be taken for what it is: a signifying realisation linked to a revelation of the fantasy.”
Jacques Lacan, Seminar XV, The Psychoanalytic Act
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“This illusion which pushes us to seek the reality of the subject beyond the wall of language is the same by which the subject believes that its truth is already given in us - that we know it in advance.”
Jacques Lacan, The Function and Field of Speech and Language, Écrits
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“Patience is also a form of action.”
Auguste Rodin
Rodin is pictured with his friend Rainer Maria Rilke in Paris in 1902, just prior to the employing him to act as private secretary
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“These new regulations will fundamentally change the way we get around them.”
By Peter C. Vey
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