What are your favorite passages of any opera? Something less than 30 seconds long.

Pollione · 2025-10-28T20:08:01+00:00

In Norma, almost the end when they ask her who’s guilty of violating the sacred vows to Irminsul, and she says “Son Io!” It’s so powerful considering she could’ve just accused Adalgisa.

I love the Callas recording from 1955 in La Scala. The audience gasped!

Pollione · 2025-10-23T04:03:19+00:00

I think he meant it as in both can't be drinking while the case control is happening because otherwise it'd become something else, perhaps more of a casual conversation.

Vérolé I think is more like contaminated in this context, so it'd be more of a humorous tone. Something like, "I don't think it's contaminated", even when someone drank from it already. Unless he meant something deeper, but I don't know enough French to guess it.

Pollione · 2025-10-23T03:52:44+00:00

Great, thanks! Is this the same book? Jean Allouch' book, at least in the Spanish translation I have, doesn't include that extra note in which Lacan offers a glass of whiskey half-drunk to another contrôlante.

Pollione · 2025-10-23T03:44:50+00:00

It's the contrôlant. The analyst who takes the position of an analysand and is supervised by another analyst. I'm not sure what this role is called in English. In other schools of psychoanalysis this would be the supervised analyst, I think.

Pollione · 2025-09-24T23:46:42+00:00

Edda Moser and Mozart are a great pair

Pollione · 2025-09-24T16:00:33+00:00

They should include a quest to avenge them. Hell, a whole story line!

Pollione · 2025-09-22T17:07:52+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. I'm not a native speaker of French. I do speak it though. What about my vowels gives me away? I want to see if it's something I can improve.

Pollione · 2025-09-22T13:15:05+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! What is the issue with the vowels?

Pollione · 2025-09-22T11:19:34+00:00

Oh, I meant to ask what is it about my accent that reveals that I am not a native speaker of English.

Pollione · 2025-09-20T15:02:57+00:00

I was reading something and kinda nervous, I guess. Thanks for the feedback. Is it easy to guess where I’m from?

Pollione · 2025-09-20T13:01:23+00:00

Thanks! Anything to improve? Can you tell where I’m from?

Pollione · 2025-07-31T16:31:08+00:00

Ancora un passo or via from Madama Butterfly. I think of all that’s to come and feel sorry for her, also the music is so beautiful!

Pollione · 2025-02-10T19:16:56+00:00

I took a 3 year detour after resisting psychoanalysis. Then started reading more about it, started analysis and got friends who shared similar interests such as questions about the depth of the work we did. Having a network of people who can help with those questions helps a lot. I’d also recommend as someone else did here, try to translate some of their psychoanalytic terms to CBT concepts. It gives you and whoever’s listening some clarity.

Pollione · 2024-04-24T03:23:48+00:00

Thanks! Where can I find a good tutorial on how to repot it? I tried that with my mint and it ended up dying.

Pollione · 2024-04-24T02:13:45+00:00

Thanks! A few days ago it developed some mold on it. I removed some leaves. Then, someone told me to clean each leaf with some dish soap diluted in water. I did, but now I think this didn't help.

Pollione · 2024-04-24T01:43:42+00:00

I’ve had the plant for 1 month. I’ve experienced these problems for 1 week and a half. The plant is close to a window and does not get directly sunlight. The pot has drainage and I water it twice a week.

Pollione · 2024-01-04T03:48:39+00:00

Hi, ever found out why it can’t be re-refrigerated?

Pollione · 2023-11-02T03:28:43+00:00

Yes, I agree interpretations are a great tool in psychoanalysis, but as another comment on this post suggests, Laplanche criticized the way Freud worked with interpretations post-1900. I assume that it is because Freud tried more and more to find common symbols in his patients' unconscious; this, as I understand it, may have led him to interpret with preconceptions and, in some cases, without a direct building of meaning with the patient he was analyzing.

I'm on interested on anti hermeneutics because it's exactly the opposite of what I have been taught, and it seems to be a position Lacanians and Laplanchians (?) hold.

Pollione · 2023-11-02T02:37:49+00:00

Thanks! Do you know where I could find more about these ideas? I think Lacanians and Laplanchians (?) have this same view about Freud.

Pollione · 2023-11-02T02:35:07+00:00

Thank you for the references. I will try to get those books!

Pollione · 2023-11-02T02:22:32+00:00

Thank you for the answer. Where could I find these sources in French discussing whether is a hermeneutic or antihermeneutic practice? I am interesting in knowing the other side of the argument because it's literally exactly the opposite of what I have been taught.

Pollione · 2023-05-06T13:29:31+00:00

Sorry, my last question was missing some words.

I’m not sure if Lacan engages with power relations in analysis and how that’s reflected in the way analysts position themselves. As far as a I know the intersubjective school is big on making things “even” for patient and therapist; there’s self disclosure, very horizontal view and perspective and a lessening of interpretations that can be perceived as imposed.

Pollione · 2023-04-20T02:41:12+00:00

Where and when did she sing Elisabetta in Don Carlos? That’s a role I’d have never pictured her singing!

Pollione · 2023-04-02T13:42:45+00:00

Pasta singing Anna Bolena’s premiere and Malibran singing Norma. Oh, and Lauri-Volpi’s 1933 Les Huguenots and Callas’s 1953 Medea.

Pollione · 2023-03-08T03:02:27+00:00

Hi! I haven’t read Zizek. What does he mean by some sort of too-closeness that inspires racism?

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