#psychoanalysis

[theinternetarchive]

a few psychoanalytic sources on the Internet Archive that i personally vouch for

Freud

an outline of psychoanalysis

the origin and development of psychoanalysis

the complete psychological works

the ego and the id

the interpretation of dreams

introductory lectures on psychoanalysis

a collection of critical essays

Lacan

four fundamental concepts (other edition here)

the ethics of psychoanalysis

the limits of love and knowledge

the language of the self

seminar i: freud's papers on technique

Sartre

existential psychoanalysis

being and nothingness

Žižek

the sublime object of ideology

violence

everything you always wanted to know about lacan (but were too afraid to ask hitchcock)

the plague of fantasies

in defense of lost causes

enjoy your symptom! lacan in hollywood and out

others

Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists – Joan Copjec

Imagine There's No Woman – Joan Copjec

gaze and voice as love objects – Žižek et al

jacques lacan and the other side of psychoanalysis – Žižek et al

a clinical introduction to lacanian psychoanalysis – bruce fink

lacan: the absolute master – mikkel borch-jacobson

lacan and contemporary film – todd mcgowan et al

[theoptia]

Hermann Hesse, from Reflections

[prokopetz]

Psychoanalysing your dreams by looking up the recurring motifs on TV Tropes.

[funeral]

Accepting the reality that there is no cure for our existential malaise keeps us from wasting our life in chasing the untenable goal of healing our lack. That is, accepting the lack of a definitive cure allows us to direct our attention to endeavors over which we have some control; it frees us to pursue modalities of living that are both realistically attainable and potentially even rewarding—gratifying despite being imperfect. Unfortunately, because the mundane objects that contain the objet a are by necessity mere pale imitations of the Thing-in-itself, it can take prolonged mourning to reconcile ourselves to the reality that these imitations, these faint echoes of the Thing, are the only portion of the Thing that will ever be available to us. Yet I believe that those of us who have managed to make peace with this reality possess the best chances for fashioning a life that feels both rewarding and dynamic.

Mari Ruti, “When the Cure Is that There Is No Cure: Melancholia, Mourning, Creativity” in Meaningless Suffering: Traumatic Marginalisation and Ethical Responsibility

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

C. G. Jung - Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen In The Sky - Routledge & Kegan Paul - 1977

[beetrootmountain]

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[altrbody]

"The capitalist subject constantly experiences its failure to belong, which is why the recurring fantasy within capitalism is that of attaining some degree of authentic belonging (in a romantic relationship, in a group of friends, in the nation, and so on). Though capitalism spawns this type of fantasy, it constantly militates against the fantasy's realization. Capitalism offers the promise of belonging with every commodity and with the commodity as such, but the subject can never buy the perfect commodity, or enough of them, to unlock the secret of belonging. Unlike the subject of a particular culture, the capitalist subject does not have a place that offers a sense of identity. There is only a lack of place that spawns the search for a place through the process of constant enrichment, a process that serves only to augment the subject's lack of place and identity. The only identity the capitalist subject has lies in its absence of any identity."

--Todd McGowan, Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets

[terrorignitis]

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn theosophy by heart, or mechanically repeat mystic texts from the literature of the whole world-all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls.

Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy