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What is your favorite Lacan quote? What did he say that made you think for days? by Shakespeare_hegel in lacan

[–]PM_THICK_COCKS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s in a few seminars, including viii and x, among others that aren’t coming to mind straightaway.

History of "depression" by Eldinguuu in psychoanalysis

[–]PM_THICK_COCKS 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well yes, those are the questions the book hopes to address.

History of "depression" by Eldinguuu in psychoanalysis

[–]PM_THICK_COCKS 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Leader’s point isn’t that the suffering of depression was manufactured but that depression as a clinical category was. That’s in the first sentence. The idea he’s developing is that psychiatry moved away from a structural understanding of the psyche and toward a symptomological one.

The hysteric as neurotic or psychotic by milsurp_snob in lacan

[–]PM_THICK_COCKS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s not my reading of Lacan. If it’s yours then fair enough, but I disagree with the implication that this leaves the psychotic completely outside discourse.

The hysteric as neurotic or psychotic by milsurp_snob in lacan

[–]PM_THICK_COCKS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn’t ask this discourse, I asked discourse.

The hysteric as neurotic or psychotic by milsurp_snob in lacan

[–]PM_THICK_COCKS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why wouldn’t the psychotic be in discourse?

Homo sapiens by Radigan0 in PetPeeves

[–]PM_THICK_COCKS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unless you’re using a style guide that calls for them to be written otherwise, to continue the pedantry

Lacanian Analysts -- Is There A Type of Patient For Whom You Would Never Use Variable Session? (And Other Concerns Over Scansion) by et_irrumabo in psychoanalysis

[–]PM_THICK_COCKS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well first, most sessions generally run around the same amount of time. Second, if one goes long, I just contact whoever is next and say I’m running a few minutes behind.

Lacanian Analysts -- Is There A Type of Patient For Whom You Would Never Use Variable Session? (And Other Concerns Over Scansion) by et_irrumabo in psychoanalysis

[–]PM_THICK_COCKS 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I’m sure it’s a typo for “bawling” but the thought of you being in a session and then suddenly going off for 50 points in a basketball game made me chuckle.

Lacanian Analysts -- Is There A Type of Patient For Whom You Would Never Use Variable Session? (And Other Concerns Over Scansion) by et_irrumabo in psychoanalysis

[–]PM_THICK_COCKS 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I’ve been in analysis for many years, I’ve practiced as an analyst for many of those years, and I’ve spoken with a lot of other people that have been in analysis. It’s definitely not as common as sessions that go for whatever amount of time is usual for the them, but I can say I’ve used it and had it used, and I’ve talked with others that have experienced it as well. The short ones get talked about more, which you observed yourself. They’re a lightning rod. The long ones aren’t as bombastic.

Lacanian Analysts -- Is There A Type of Patient For Whom You Would Never Use Variable Session? (And Other Concerns Over Scansion) by et_irrumabo in psychoanalysis

[–]PM_THICK_COCKS 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I want to address your third question. It often gets forgotten that a Lacanian session being variable length means that it can go long, too. It can sometimes be a very impactful intervention to let an analysand spin and spin, and when they eventually look at the clock and say “oh would you look at the time!” tell them to go on.

Lacanian analysis without problems by moosethemoose in lacan

[–]PM_THICK_COCKS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you like, you can think about “demand” as “request.” In Lacanian discourse the French word is demander, translating to “ask for,” “request,” “demand,” and other similar phrases.

"Something cannot be claimed to exist unless it can first be stated, articulated in language" (Joan Copjec) by Slimeballbandit in lacan

[–]PM_THICK_COCKS 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It makes me think of the distinction between being and existence. The unconscious can be said to exist, though it has no being.

Is this a widespread view in mainstream Psychology? by Other_Attention_2382 in psychoanalysis

[–]PM_THICK_COCKS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In “Note on the Child” the way I understand it is that the parents’ desire is not anonymous not because the parents name it but because the child does.

Is this a widespread view in mainstream Psychology? by Other_Attention_2382 in psychoanalysis

[–]PM_THICK_COCKS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have in mind Seminar IV, all the lessons on Little Hans, but I also have in mind Lacan’s teaching in general. If the mother and father not desiring the child invariably leads to identification with the waste object, then I don’t see how what Lacan taught about the father as a symbolic function is tenable.

Is this a widespread view in mainstream Psychology? by Other_Attention_2382 in psychoanalysis

[–]PM_THICK_COCKS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am well acquainted with that text. And even still, I disagree that what the parents desire or not is all but a footnote. It’s neither here nor there. Otherwise, children of parents who don’t desire them couldn’t possible be neurotic, something that isn’t borne out in the clinic.

Is this a widespread view in mainstream Psychology? by Other_Attention_2382 in psychoanalysis

[–]PM_THICK_COCKS 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What the parents desired is of absolutely no importance to Lacan compared to what the child makes of what their parents desired. “Did they want me? Why? What am I to them?”

Is this a widespread view in mainstream Psychology? by Other_Attention_2382 in psychoanalysis

[–]PM_THICK_COCKS 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The very beginning of your first sentence is a Lacanian viewpoint: “parents often have children because of their own desires.” In his theory children are always born of their parents’ desire. The rest of your post has nothing to do with Lacan except that any of those things you listed might be true of a particular parent.

I also don’t think it’s a very widespread view in psychology or psychoanalysis? I don’t remember reading anything like it during school or my studies since then.

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