#ben ramm

[bookowlnews]

As more people now prefer the word refugees to the word 'migrants,' the discourse completely changes. The word 'refugees' becomes the new master signifier, which makes the discourse on immigration meaningful in new ways. The master signifier "has the role of making discourse meaningful" & readable

ANDRE VANTINO citing BEN RAMM

[bookowlnews]

his/her unanswerable question is precisely the same as the abject lack/excess of sin that is constantly aimed at in the repetition of confession, but that must always remain unaccounted for by the discourse that attempts to annul it.

..The Grail romances, and particularly the Queste, go about attempting to rehabilitate the sinful excess of jouissance within discourse, so that it becomes none other than the plus-dejouir (a), the remainder of jouissance that persists in the symbolic, and that is the repressed truth of the hysteric-sinner’s discourse - BEN RAMM

[bookowlnews]

sin is deemed disgusting (abject) precisely because it is unspeakable

BEN RAMM

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enunciation of sin is always the enunciation of a lack, a spoken mask for what cannot ‘really’ be said

BEN RAMM on the perception that one is sinful as a perception which results from the return in the symbolic of the repressed unsymbolizable real, a real of sin that is unspeakable, not in the sense of some idea of an unspeakable sin, but in the sense of sin or our conception of sin as a conception that is always flawed, that always overestimates the meaning of the unspeakable, unsymbolizable

[lacanians]

Her anxiety serves as a resistance to the compulsion to sacrifice: ‘I refuse to sacrifice the agalma in me BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING TO SACRIFICE, because I am unable to fill your lack. ’

BEN RAMM on how ‘only the hysteric can recognize the ‘superfluous and fake character’ of sacrifice’

[bookowlnews]

Caesar warns ‘how a confessor ought not to make enquiries about unknown sins’ lest he should tempt the confessee into further iniquity

BEN RAMM on how language itself is erotic

[bookowlnews]

It is ..in the practice of confession, that the discourse of the Hysteric comes fully into play, enacting the subject’s refusal to embody the master signifiers that define him as a split or lacking subject, as a sinner. - A-Discourse-for-the-Holy-Grail

BEN RAMM

[bookowlnews]

The hysteric feels that his/her subjectivity is invaded, inhabited by a foreign body..-..the notion of sin as a foreign body, a bone in the throat preventing the full articulation

BEN RAMM