#Lacan

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Sylvia Bataille (born Sylvia Maklès; 1 November 1908 – 23 December 1993) was a French actress of Romanian-Jewishdescent. When she was twenty, she married the writer Georges Bataille with whom she had a daughter, the

Jonathan Basile·BLM

I think the best way of understanding "cancel culture" is by invoking the Lacanian distinction between the imaginary and the symbolic. Being "against" cancel culture immediately cancels itself, because it

S. Alfonso Williams

Even God has never seen his own ass.(The catch: God only sees Himself *as* Himself, & never reflected from a mirror, because God leaves no room for the othered existence

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Can’t stop thinking about the history of the ownership of Courbet’s The Origin of the World. (A thread.) Commissioned by Ottoman diplomat Halil Şerif Pasha, most of the paintings owners

S. Alfonso Williams

Every individual goes to their deathbed having lost to ethics. I'm gonna keep on saying it.There is no ethical relation, &Ethics is the end of history.Why? Because so much of

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tiktoks as theory: a thread. and yes i hate myself as much as you already hate me for this. Jacques Lacan, “The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function”

Can a Lacanian on here explain to me why the Real is sometimes defined as the failure of language (and thus not, strictly speaking, external to language) and other times

S. Alfonso Williams

Giving Guattari's diagrams empirical tangibility.Pg. 204.Republicans, the Alt-Right, & Neoliberals all share redundant characteristics of dialogical discrimination, open forms of intentional vice toward particular groups, of which r

Judith Beyer 🇪🇺

"The editor let me know that Elsevier could not publish my manuscript as it stood because they were worried about getting sued for libel." Read this excellent new article by

On the rejection of Freud, love of Marx in young people interested in Critical Theory: (@anniemcclanahan actually had a real analysis, mine is pure fantasy fiction) -- Psychoanalysis is like

S. Alfonso Williams

The Purified Subject (Body.without.Organs).When we allow the domain of the State to exercise sovereignty, we simultaneously allow the anomaly of subjectivity to be an aesthetichttps://theoryandanalysis.wordpress.com/2020/05/28/the-purified-

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Okay, time for a new philosopher thirst thread. Maybe we'll finally determine who has the biggest twink energy Starting, obviously, with Kierkegaard. Beautiful man and definitely a contender for biggest

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Having a psychotic break Likley because antipsychotics have intolerable side effects or don’t work. I don’t know what to do other than suicide. It’s like your head is being crushed,

Rev. Kate Morgan, M.A. TESOL 🌾🥕🥜🌱🍄🌵🍠🍎🥭🌶

IdentityEuleria

Anyone remember Freud? All major theorists “respond” until Lacan, and he caught quite a bit of alienation and heat. Our gender diversity comes after Jacques and Horney, implicating Luce Irigaray

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**fear of death and desire to be closer to God.https://twitter.com/sarah_ogun/status/1275208908957798400 Beauty is religious. Western interpretations of the body are partly mirrored after (European understanding of) the body of Christ. Medi

Treatise on Hoemadology: The Whore Machine

categories of young men interested in philosophy [thread] basic philosophy bro: - misinterpretations of Nietzsche- superiority complex - shitty personality - virgin - misogynist analytical fratboy: - shits on continental