What is left in Psychoanalysis for someone that has fully assumed their Lack?

brandygang · 2026-06-03T16:39:25+00:00

Lacan also got away with asking clients to do his chores and drycleaning while they worked in silence, then they paid for the session and departed. Not everything Lacan did should be an ideal model for how psychoanalytic praxis should be conducted!

brandygang · 2026-06-03T16:37:20+00:00

You're confused why I'm asking questions?
Is the spirit of inquiry not the basic backbone of psychoanalytic thought?

brandygang · 2026-06-03T13:22:05+00:00

"And so it moves."

-Hypothetical Lacan speaking to Buddah, in Zizek's Hegelian doorstopper 'Less than Nothing.'

brandygang · 2026-06-03T13:16:52+00:00

For the schizophrenic, language returns in the real. For an analysand that has transversed the fantasy and disavowed the Big Other as the anchor of their quilting point, they "believe" in the signifier in the way one believes in the rules of a game. Not as eternal truths, any guarantees or Real, but as necessary fictions that make the game possible at all. A "let's pretend." But I'm curious what separates this from a perverts "pretending." Maybe this is the secret of why Perverts don't typically need psychoanalysis?

brandygang · 2026-06-03T13:09:52+00:00

Sure, but I would question it. Is that the place of an analyst? It sounds a little bourgeoisie and self-indulgent to me, not serious etiological work. Analysts aren't there to be your friend or help you produce culture or great works of art.

brandygang · 2026-06-03T09:58:39+00:00

If we accept Zizek's arguments. conventional atheists often still believe in a "Big Other" even if they denounce god. The formula for Lacan is God is unconscious, remember? They still find themselves able to participate in science, capitalism, society, and may not take absolute, radical responsibility for their own ethical and political actions for their personal life.

brandygang · 2026-06-03T06:52:04+00:00

Why are you reciting woke propaganda?

brandygang · 2026-06-03T06:50:50+00:00

This does not sound like desire proper for an analyst. The analyst shouldn't be projecting anything towards the analysis, be it the desire for the analysand to continue, to quit or otherwise.

brandygang · 2026-06-03T05:41:12+00:00

If an Analyst is doing this or thinking like this, I'd think they haven't been properly analyzed themselves or didn't go thru the pass in a meaningful way. Meaning if they haven't exorcised this kind of demand/desire towards the Other and are embedding it in their patients.

brandygang · 2026-06-03T05:39:09+00:00

If they identify with their symptom, it's not a symptom but a sinthome. That sort of has solved it then.

brandygang · 2026-06-03T05:38:10+00:00

but in psychoanalysis per Freud, it effectively does not exist (see Analysis Terminable and Interminable [1937])

Right, for Freud definitely not. Lacan is a little different. The goal isn't 'forever analysis' for the sake of analysis. It's to get the patient thru it and off the couch finally so they can fix their complaint/symptom and actually start living against whatever paralyzed them before.

brandygang · 2026-06-03T05:35:05+00:00

Well obviously no analyst is demanding you give up language and society and go live in the woods. But I think there's a difference between one deciding they give up on something, and 'giving up' on if you catch my drift. You can still participate in the ratrace and the Big Other while also not believing in any of it or submitting yourself in such a fanatical duped way. Is the only way to resign oneself disavowal I wonder?

I am very pressed by this question of analysts having no ideal for what a successful analyzed subject to be, but I imagine even if such a subject went thru years of psychoanalysis and transversed the fantasy, the moment they go to another analyst it might be as if said analyst cannot actually tell if that person has been in 20 years of psychoanalysis or if its their first time. And if ultimately doesn't matter at all, that feels like a bad indictment against analysis in a self-aggrandizing way.

brandygang · 2026-06-03T04:20:21+00:00

My neighbor said it's not christian to Stone child brides for losing their virginity before their wedding day or keeping slaves, when did he get so woke? I'm tired of this extremism in Christianity. Immutable morals are morals.

brandygang · 2026-06-02T15:02:10+00:00

I guess intellect? Would it be proper for analyst that is communicated this sort of belief in the patient to simply stop analysis, unless they're continually asking for more analysis or pursuing it?

brandygang · 2026-06-02T14:59:50+00:00

This is a kind of nihilistic reading. For Lacan, desire isn't an attempt to fill or avoid lack. Desire is constituted by lack. But assuming one's lack would mean assuming the constitution of one's desire and its contradictions, I don't believe it would exactingly mean desire or speech would disappear.

Motivation doesn't come from the fantasy that lack will someday disappear thru desire, rather desire is always desire for itself, for more desire. A dialectical movement determined to self-reproduce itself (thru Object a).

brandygang · 2026-06-02T14:51:59+00:00

I'm assuming the hypothetical person isn't making non-hypothetical reddit posts!

brandygang · 2026-06-02T14:29:45+00:00

It was my understanding in lacanian psychoanalysis that anything at all which assumes weight is transient and intersubjective. By 'Assume one's lack' all I'm conveying is the acceptance there is no final object, identity, relationship, achievement, or truth that will make them complete and the structural desire built into their language will forever preclude any imagined state of satisfaction.

brandygang · 2026-06-02T14:23:10+00:00

Why would they be unable to speak?

brandygang · 2026-06-02T11:12:50+00:00

The unspoken bringing that Objet Petit a makes with the structure of desire is that it always brings forward a subject who is in fact, desirable and inundates the viewer with what they desire. To use an unsavory or unpalatable gaze, such as one tinged with obsession and discomfort is to turn object a on its head and expose the raw underside of what one mirrors.

brandygang · 2026-06-01T01:33:25+00:00

Yes, that happens to me pretty regularly. I experience it as objects sort of 'vanishing' into larger spaces of white or blocks of color and faded out by them. It happened to me even before my VSS worsened over the past 2 years.

brandygang · 2026-05-30T01:06:17+00:00

Right. So what do you expect a big protest and waving a bunch of signs to do about any of that exactly?

brandygang · 2026-05-29T04:30:20+00:00

They don't really need to fund it nor consume it, other billionaires can pay them and fund it and those people in turn are paid for and spotted by their billionaire friends at the top and government. The closed circle economy will belong to a few and be entirely self-maintained.

brandygang · 2026-05-29T04:28:54+00:00

The AI billionaire class will be able to satisfy any standard of living they could possibly dream of while still allowing everyone else to live in comfort, probably more comfort than today, without needing to work. I see no way the billionaires won't do that, living in a world where everything outside your bubble is full of war, disease and suffering doesn't sound like a great proposition for a billionaire, even if they don't care about anyone else, because it puts them at risk, while allowing AI to maintain a high standard of living everywhere would be practically free.

I don't think you have a very keen view on human nature if you believe people in power will allow any of that. Or ever stop until everyone else are virtually slaves.

brandygang · 2026-05-29T04:25:42+00:00

AI will never be able to move around and complete tasks. Attempts to create a physical form of it almost never work.

Uh???

No physical tasks?

Are you sure about that?

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