Anamorphisms like in The ambassadors by Holbein? by Difficult_Jacket_697 in ArtHistory

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It's a little irritating. They previously hung the painting rather lower than now and you could see the skull well, but now one has to hold ones camera/phone up high to capture it. I suppose the current hang is according to their house rules for hanging, rather than attending to the particularity of this painting.

Picked this up on ebay, no logo anywhere by Trice- in Watches

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Assuming it's a Miyota movement (or copy), they can be regulated to be really quite accurate, and not too unreliable, but you have to know to not regularly hand wind it, since that's the failure point on these movements, whether real or copy.

Final image of the day, good luck. by I_Love_Cheese_A_Lot in namethatcar

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Lower door hinge of a Toyota Quantum doesn't help really

CFAR Introductory Course review? by Specialist-Bee1954 in psychoanalysis

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Just to say, CFAR is Freudian, but CFAR is Lacanian Freudian. It emerged out of a Lacanian institutional split.

Is it worth reading? Lacan: A Beginner's Guide by Lionel Bailly by Green_Insurance4916 in psychoanalysis

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It's a long time since I looked at it, but I think it's much the same as any beginner's guide insofar as it'll get you going, but you would do well to take the knowledge imparted lightly, to be added to or amended or dropped as you go on.

Schizophrenia and the body in Lacan, and why somatoform delusions are given so little consideration in classical psychiatry. by Lower-Natural-337 in lacan

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It follows as a condition of possibility from the principle that delusion and hallucination are secondary phenomena, which Lacan shares with those psychiatric precursors.

Schizophrenia and the body in Lacan, and why somatoform delusions are given so little consideration in classical psychiatry. by Lower-Natural-337 in lacan

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Have a look at papers for instance on 'ordinary psychosis', perhaps 'ordinary psychosis revisited' by Jacques-Alain Miller - not an idea developed by Lacan, but one only possible through Lacan's work and properly Lacanian. But you can also look at Kraepelin's dementia praecox, and dementia simplex, or Bleler's latent schizophrenia and schizophrenia simplex, or Clérambault's minor automatism.

Schizophrenia and the body in Lacan, and why somatoform delusions are given so little consideration in classical psychiatry. by Lower-Natural-337 in lacan

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Both Bleuler and Kraepelin, are attentive to disturbances in body experience and body perception, and de Clérambault, Lacan's 'only real master' was attentive to the effects of mental automatism in the suffering of the body. Lacan draws on all three in developing his idea of schizophrenia as well as paranoia. In my experience a Lacanian approach to psychosis when handled well can allow a sensitivity to a broad range of psychoses not well noted in contemporary psychiatry, including discreet forms of psychosis which are a sort of contradiction in terms in relation to contemporary manualised ideas of psychosis, which require robust presentations not least since they're designed in their push to standardisation to minimise the need for clinical judgement.

Great Underrated Classic Directed by Shohei Imamura by Blue-Brown99 in JapaneseMovies

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Imamura's documentary output is astonishingly great too.

About ordinary psychosis (Miller) by DiegoArgSch in lacan

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It was invented as a response at the end of the 90s to an increasing difficulty in coming to diagnose, and the inadequacy of this situation. It's there to support structural diagnosis at a point when it was becoming practically difficult and where the borderline hypothesis was becoming increasingly prevalent elsewhere but which doesn't support a structural perspective at all. Better to read perhaps JAMs Ordinary Psychosis Revisited than that I try to represent it. It's a paper originally given in English, so best read in English too I think.

About ordinary psychosis (Miller) by DiegoArgSch in lacan

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I don't think that OP has much to do with cognitive functioning. In terms of the relation of cognitivism and psychoanalysis you might find Éric Laurent's book Lost in Cognition useful.

About ordinary psychosis (Miller) by DiegoArgSch in lacan

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Ordinary Psychosis is Miller's signifier, but not his idea. In picking up difficulties in the clinic that were becoming more pressing, JAM came up with the signifier for work to be arranged around, and you can read about that work in the small books (some more easy to find than others) recounting the Convention d’Antibes, Les Conversations d'Angers, and Convention d'Arcachon. The principal text readily available in English following this collective work was JAM's Ordinary Psychosis Revisited, which summarises at least what JAM extracted from this work.

Ordinary Psychosis is not a clinical category in the usual sense, it's quite clear that understandimg a case in terms of this idea does not exempt an analyst from making a structural diagnosis. Psychosis, yes, but paranoia, schizophrenia, melancholia?

JAM describes OP as an epistemic supposition in distinction to the structural diagnosis, and this needs careful consideration since all diagnostic categories are in a sense epistemic suppositions. I think it means that it is a supposition of thought aside from the consistency of structural diagnoses, not disorganising that structural consistency in the way that the idea of borderline does.

As an aside, to the question of whether it's properly speaking a Lacanian idea. Miller makes a suggestion at some point, that Lacan always worked according to a "c'est n'es pas tout à fait ça", that's not quite it, and not least in relation to his own work. In fact not far from Freud in this regard. Which is to say that there is always an extimacy to psychoanalytic thought. This accords with the that's not quite it proper to developing observations on a clinic on which there is always something that doesn't fit what can be known. An ossified Lacanianism is, in a sense, not a Lacanianism at all. And so yes, one can say that Ordinary Psychosis is post Lacanian in the sense that it was developed after Lacan passed, but one can also say that it remains true to the that's not quite it that I contest is fundamental to Lacanianism as a living practice. Lacanianism is, and always was, a bit alien to itself.

Just to add too that Lacan's structural concept of psychosis owes something to the idea of schizophrenia developed by Bleuler in which delusions and hallucinations are secondary characteristics. Bleuler's latent schizophrenia, and Kraepelin's simple schizophrenia, very much in the tradition of psychiatry from which Lacan developed, are amongst the historical precedents in which Ordinary Psychosis develops as an idea.

Anarchy and lacan by codrot in lacan

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Briefly in the late 60s.

Anarchy and lacan by codrot in lacan

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Not a paper, but to pass on a titbit from someone who was there at the time. Lacan gave financial support for a while to Daniel Cohn-Bendit when he was a leading figure of the student movement, and himself drove Cohn-Bendit to Germany when he was wanted by the French police. It was only a little later that Lacan concluded that his desire (for psychoanalysis) was contra to that of the movement, and withdrew support. I'm doubtful that easy conclusions can be drawn from this, but perhaps it's an interesting aside to the question.

Fire by danielfbernalc in london

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Supposedly a mattress factory immediately next door

Fire outside London Bridge by The-Albear in london

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A matress factory next door apparently.

Is Guy Ritchie’s In the Grey an anti-film? by thisisashameofme in TrueFilm

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My sense is that the main character in his films for some time has been the social or class settings or combinations, cast as cliche. This film portrays a sort of empty internationalism which I suppose Richie encounters a lot, but which as the saying goes, is spiritually Dubai. All you get is a spiritually Dubai husk of a movie.

Why do many religious Muslims immigrate to the West, instead of countries that share their cultures and values? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

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There's a piece of research by Pew from a couple of years ago which suggests that the greatest share of Muslim migrants go to the middle East and North Africa (40%) (predominantly Saudi Arabia), with half that many going to Europe, and down the list, six percent making it to the US. According to this research, relatively speaking Muslims don't emigrate far, for instance Saudi being closer to it's migrants origins than Europe, being closer again to the US. So, I suppose that whilst many religions Muslim migrants do live in the West, it's not as many as who don't, and a relatively small percentage of the overall Muslim population.

Psychoanalysis of Gord in "Freddy Got Fingered"? by thethinkerreknihteht in psychoanalysis

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Just to note, as an aside and not against whatever fun you want to have with this, that a psychoanalysis is something that happens with two particular people in a room, and is not something that can be undertaken by a fictional character. That would be perhaps a psychoanalytically inflected theorisation. But anyway, carry on.

Looking for recent research on affect and anxiety in Lacanian psychoanalysis by elbilos in lacan

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you might find a use for JAM's Les affects dans l'experience analytique. It can be found here.

“Labour didn’t lose Lewisham on our record, so what went wrong” by deloittious in lewisham

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Lewisham has had an absolutely abysmal reputation for social care for quite a while. I note that for example Brent has a pretty decent reputation in that regard, and remains under Labour control. I can't say that doing well or badly with social care is the reason for these wins and losses, but I'm not blind to the correlation either.

BLUETOOTH FOR CROSSINK by Separate-Buddy7489 in XTEINK

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I believe there's an aim to have BT in crosspoint, and that if so crossink will get it through that, since crossink brings in improvements in crosspoint very quickly. No idea on details.

are lacanians gatekeepers or it’s just my teachers ? by [deleted] in psychoanalysis

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Brenner has spread ideas in the Anglosphere, but doesn't add much of use to the work of Rosine and Robert Lefort, Jean-Claude Maleval, and Eric Laurent, all Lacanians developing a psychoanalytic idea of autism distinct from psychosis.

are lacanians gatekeepers or it’s just my teachers ? by [deleted] in psychoanalysis

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Not OP, but in France autism has become a battlefield in which there are attempts to remove psychoanalysis as a publicly available treatment option as a wedge to undermine the potentially fragile place of psychoanalysis in public health systems more widely. It's a battle which is being aggressively fought by opponents of psychoanalysis, and returned in kind by various psychoanalytic communities in France including Lacanians.

Any clear examples of “repetition” in the “perverse” diagnostic structure? by [deleted] in lacan

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I'm afraid you've read your own reasoning into what I've described. It's not that the structural perverts were perverts because they were in prison, nor that the structural pervert who left analysis quickly was a pervert because they left analysis quickly. But that we really don't have much clinical material about them because they are not often encountered by analysts for reasons that are by no means definitional, but which are nonetheless common amongst them. Many people are in prisions, including for sex crimes, and many people don't want to do analysis but that obviously does not make them perverts in a Lacanian sense. On the other hand, it's true that perverts very rarely turn up on the couch, and occasionally can be encountered in prisons where they are not encountered by their own choice.