the Split Subject

a soft tongue breaks bones

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

L'amour braque (Andrzej Zulawski, 1985)

[solomivids]

Don’t shorten your words, I like your details

[7thartheaven]

"What isn't resolved by love, remains forever in suspense."

Nouvelle Vague (1990), Jean-Luc Godard

[lawrenceleemagnuson]

Jean Brusselmans (Belgium 1884-1953) Untitled, 1951

[markmcevoy]

If you want it

[jamabushi]

What interests you these days?

[atw211]

ANNA PERLIN 

“Brambles and Bluebells”

[grandpasessions]

Lacan opposes the subject of the signifier to the so-called ‘subject of jouissance’.

The subject of the signifier refers to subjectivity that arises as an effect of concatenating signifiers. This subject ‘exists’, to the extent that its position and identity in the world are articulated via the Other.

The subject of jouissance, by contrast, refers to the libidinous corporeality of being. It designates a state of being that is not (yet) determined by the signifier. The subject of jouissance ‘is’, but does not exist. It designates the human being qua Thing, before it is differentiated by means of the signifier. Its identity and its position in the world are not articulated.

Importantly Lacan conceptualizes the relationship between the Other and the subject of jouissance in dialectical terms. This means that in the tension between jouissance and Other an Aufhebung or upheaval is realized, which gives rise to a new component of subjectivity: the object a.

The object a is a component of libidinous corporeality that is created by using signifiers, but that is not represented by means of the signifier. It is an element of being that persists in the subject of the signifier, but is not transformed into Symbolic existence.

The Subject of Psychosis Stijn Vanheule

[thesplitsubject]

everyone near her was glad to be there because it was more fun to be with her than with anyone else.

[shihlun]

Masahisa Fukase

- Ravens 92

[kobithedragon]

https://www.are.na/block/15502031

[obsob]

hgrng…thinking of love 

[bookstagramofmine]

Mary Oliver

[rainynocturne]

[heroandleandro]

rainynocturne: Mark Rothko, 1969.

[funeral]

“Self-analysis is impossible because it remains within the domain of privacy, a domain predominated by narcissistic illusion and imaginary ideals. In our private worlds, we count the value of our conscious intentions far too highly, and we simultaneously fail to grasp our unconscious motivations. We pay attention to our conscious intentions rather than to the signifiers that we employ unconsciously. To psychoanalyze oneself is to fall further into one’s private self-deception.”

— Todd McGowan, Driven into the Public: The Psychic Constitution of Space

[secondblooms]

[hillergoodspeed]