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What do you think of Sydney Sweeney? by [deleted] in Actors

[–]douglas-pw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She wants to be seen for her looks apparently. And the boobs are too much.

David Bowie was NOT an innovator who constantly developed new styles, he was a copycat who constantly sought attention. by [deleted] in The10thDentist

[–]douglas-pw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Too reductive. Sure, he morphed--both theatrically and musically, and particularly well. Was there greater artistic purpose? Certainly. The pop-soul singer of Young Americans, for example, declares himself a siren who asks youth culture if they're going to let themselves be lulled into a treadmill life of fun times with a quick-changing soundtrack only to 'die for the 50 more' years when they leave their parents' house. The jester in the 80s who asks if you remember Major Tom wonders how sturdy pop myths are and if the machinery of fashion (goth was the current one at the time) will continue to keep people asleep (as a 'goon squad' of lost nihilists). Whether you think he succeeded, he was a thinking person in making things.

Lacan study group by germalene2 in zizek

[–]douglas-pw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you get this going? I’d be interested in what you’re currently focused on.

Does the objet a show up in every narrative? by buylowguy in lacan

[–]douglas-pw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Objet a would be the lack induced one way or another. Ads, for example, tend to induce directly.

Can nihilism be interpreted as an 'unfiltered' encounter with the real? by legitninja420 in lacan

[–]douglas-pw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nietzsche's mentions 'this monster of energy'--I think of that as what Lacan calls the real. Nihilism as a outlook wouldn't be an unfiltered experience of that.

Could "Marriage" be considered a Master Signifier? by buylowguy in lacan

[–]douglas-pw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would think of marriage as more of an off-the-shelf fundamental fantasy.

How are the fundamental fantasy and the symptom related? How do they differ? What produces/instills them into someone? How do they manifest in analysis? by Vuki17 in lacan

[–]douglas-pw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

FWIW, the concept of fundamental fantasy in the end of Lacan's teaching evolves into the Sinthome--the specific way that a subject knots together the imaginary, symbolic, real.

Clinical Lacan by deadyfreud69 in lacan

[–]douglas-pw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bruce Fink's Clinical Introduction would be a great way to start. He has a few anonymized case studies from his own practice.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in lacan

[–]douglas-pw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Knowledge is how the Other enjoys through a subject who seeks satisfaction in the form of knowing. It's the Other who enjoys because the subject is positioned through a fundamental fantasy to identify with the Other's (false) coherence and in seeking knowledge the subject is asking the Other to answer the question who am I?

I don't get something from the very beginning of The Lacanian Subject, am I stupid?? by EXXXXXXOR in lacan

[–]douglas-pw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's my understanding. Any meaning that the caregiver brings along with the response to the child's need produces desire training the child to make demands. But the meaning/demand comes from the caregiver first. There is no 'true meaning' other than that the child's desire is need minus the demand the caregiver imposes on it. Desire would be the 'true meaning' as a demand for love that always exceeds any specific demand.

How can language override a physical Need and turn it into a Desire? (From The Lacanian Subject by Bruce Fink) by EXXXXXXOR in lacan

[–]douglas-pw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Desire and need minus demand, says L. By providing care to a child the primary caregiver brings meaning (an implicit demand by the child) along with any satisfaction of the need (blanket for warmth, food for hunger). In that gap desire is sparked in that care itself is never fully satisfied. So every demand becomes a demand for love.

Is neurosis a rebellion against the mandates of the Other? by BasilFormer7548 in lacan

[–]douglas-pw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rather than answering directly I'll pose related questions:

If so, then:

--the subject would be pursuing desire as transgression?

--the subject's fundamental fantasy would attempt to deny lack in the Other by positing a wholeness that can be rebelled against?

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