Tag: psychoanalysis
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Warhol, Warhol, Warhol
I always hear myself saying, “She’s a beauty!” or “He’s a beauty!” or “What a beauty!” but I never know what I’m talking about. Andy Warhol You either know too much about Andy Warhol or too little. You know him either as the whimsical exemplar of Pop art or as the deeply conflicted conceptual…
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Demon’s Wail
Psychoanalysis takes as its starting point the discourse of the subject, of the analysand in front of the analyst, regardless of the reality this discourse conjures up. One need only remember Freud’s embryonic first postulations following his revision of seduction theory to see that the only reality that mattered was the one independently lived by…
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Art Drive
You’ll often hear that creative writing or any creative process is riddled with unpleasantness. There’s second-guessing, doubt, and hesitation at almost every step. You don’t even have to search long on Twitter to find the testimonies of authors or poets who speak rather candidly of the fact that writing is a pain in the butt,…
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Booz’s Sheaf
My dear, my dearest, how many pebbles is it since I have had the apprentice to sugar you? Alas, my dear, answers the other, I myself have been extremely unvitreous, my three littlest oil-cakes, etc. Jacques Lacan, quoting Jean Tardieu, Seminar III, 257-81 In my previous blog post, I talked about one of philosophy’s greatest metaphors, Hegel’s “the…
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Hemingway
Writing is tough business. It is tough to get things down on paper. It is tough to cut them out. It is tough to get them out there to be read. As Hemingway wrote, “A thousand years makes economics silly and a work of art endures forever, but [writing] is very difficult to do and…
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UFOthers II
A rhomboid, a flattened oval, a jellyfish, a Tic Tac, a half-moon, a triangle, a sphere, a wedge, the saucer. These are what eyewitnesses in the new Netflix special Top Secret UFO Projects Declassified have said they’ve seen in the skies and which they believe to be UFOs or, as the government officially calls them,…
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