A dream awakens when it could unleash truth

Jacques Lacan Quotes by andy vantino https://enjoyments.substack.com

[andyvantino]

“We can feel doomed as if forever misunderstood. One can feel like one cannot know anyone fully. Lacan would add: they can’t either.”

— http://twitter.com/AndreVantino/status/1383913633378304010

[lacantexts]

I know, I am taken for an obscurantist who hides his thinking behind smokescreens. I ask myself why. I repeat, with Freud, that analysis is the ‘inter-subjective game by which truth enters into the real’. Isn’t it clear enough? Psychoanalysis isn’t child’s play. My books are called incomprehensible. But for whom? I did not write them for everyone

JACQUES LACAN

[lacantexts]

The unconscious is an unconscious that thinks hard. It’s crazy, what can be dreamed up in that unconscious. Thoughts, they say. Just a minute, just a minute. ‘If they are thoughts, it can’t be unconscious. The moment the unconscious begins to think, it thinks that it’s thinking. Thought is transparent to itself; you can’t think without knowing you are thinking.’ Of course, that objection no longer carries any weight at all. Not that anyone has any real idea of what is refutable about it. It seems refutable, but it is irrefutable. And that is precisely what the unconscious is. It’s a fact, a new fact. We have to begin to think up something that can explain it, can explain why there are such things as unconscious thoughts. It’s not self-evident. No one has in fact got down to doing that, and yet it is an eminently philosophical question. I will tell you from the outset that that is not how I set about it. It so happens that the way I did set about it easily refutes that objection, but it is no longer really an objection because everyone now is absolutely convinced on that point. Well then, the unconscious has been accepted, but there again we think that a lot of other things have been accepted - pre-packaged and just as they come — and the outcome is that everyone thinks they know what psychoanalysis is, apart from psychoanalysts, and that really is worrying. They are the only ones not to know.

[bookowlnews]

“symptom - ..the way everyone enjoys the unconscious insofar as they are determined by the unconscious.”

— http://www.psychoanalysis.ugent.be/pages/nl/artikels/artikels%20Paul%20Verhaeghe/English%20symptom.pdf 31 R.S.I., in Ornicar, 3, 1975, lesson of 2/18/75: “Je définis le symptôme par la façon dont chacun jouit de l’inconscient entant que l’inconscient le détermine” - JACQUES LACAN

[lacantexts]

That something like an order can be brought into this hole, this constitutive failure of primordial castration, is what I believe circumcision incarnates

http://twitter.com/_lacan_/status/1109179203113664517

[andyvantino]

““When the man makes love..and is disarmed,..she is henceforth altogether at ease about” his intentions says Lacan on otherness-reducing sex.”

— http://twitter.com/AndreVantino/status/934712091516309506

[andyvantino]

““the locus of jouissance is linked for us to the enigmatic, unsituatable character of her orgasm” writes Lacan, S.X, https://t.co/tELX0WTvAG”

— http://twitter.com/AndreVantino/status/935071964988936192

[andyvantino]

““The beauty spot, more than the shape that it stains, is what looks at me. And it is because it looks at me that it draws me so,” says Lacan”

— http://twitter.com/AndreVantino/status/936522780094410753

[andyvantino]

“the social order “far from arising out of the universe, arises out of enjoyment”, says Lacan”

— http://twitter.com/AndreVantino/status/940146666606415872

[lacantexts]

[art can target] what presents itself in the first instance as a symptom. ...Joyce illustrates what somewhere he calls 'the uncreated conscience of my race'. This is the mission Joyce sets himself. [In short, Joyce seeks to illustrate the symptom of his country.]

http://twitter.com/_lacan_/status/957174269502480385

[lacantexts]

it is particularly difficult to wrench the obsessional away from the stranglehold of the gaze

http://twitter.com/_lacan_/status/957157139650359296

[lacantexts]

since James Joyce's dick was a bit lax his art supplemented his phallic allure (S. XXIII)

http://twitter.com/_lacan_/status/957157062433222656

[lacantexts]

The symptom subsists insofar as it is hooked onto language, at least if we believe..we can modify something in the symptom by means of a manipulation that is said to be interpretative..., by playing on meaning. That Chomsky should...mix up..symptom &..real is..what took me aback.

http://twitter.com/_lacan_/status/957105261336055810

[lacantexts]

"The evil eye is the fascinum,..arresting movement,...killing life. ..The subject stops, suspending his gesture, he is mortified. ..It is..one of the dimensions in which the power of the gaze is exercised directly."

[lacantexts]

The dialectics of misknowledge, of denial and narcissistic alienation are due to the ego

[lacantexts]

The unconscious is to not remember what one knows

[lacantexts]

Desire and request radically reshape need