Category Archives: Psychoanalysis
Is Everyman an Island?
Islands are either from before or after humankind.[1] ~ Gilles Deleuze William Golding’s Lord of The Flies is an allegory of the death-drive inherent in human nature. It is a reversal of Ballantyne’s The Coral Island. In direct opposition to The Coral Island in which three
Is Everyman an Island?
Islands are either from before or after humankind.[1] ~ Gilles Deleuze William Golding’s Lord of The Flies is an allegory of the death-drive inherent in human nature. It is a reversal of Ballantyne’s The Coral Island. In direct opposition to The Coral Island in which three
What is called Loving? Where does Love come from?
We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream. ~ Söderberg If you’re trapped in the dream of the Other, you’re fucked. ~ Deleuze I’ve actually written two synchronous pieces on this matter, both of which
What is called Loving? Where does Love come from?
We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream. ~ Söderberg If you’re trapped in the dream of the Other, you’re fucked. ~ Deleuze I’ve actually written two synchronous pieces on this matter, both of which
Trauma and the Immanence of Eternity
In my previous post I’ve attempted to trace, clarify and briefly define certain positions and oppositions within the philosophical field today. It is my conviction that at the root of philosophical enquiry lies a series of dialectical relationships between affirmation
Trauma and the Immanence of Eternity
In my previous post I’ve attempted to trace, clarify and briefly define certain positions and oppositions within the philosophical field today. It is my conviction that at the root of philosophical enquiry lies a series of dialectical relationships between affirmation
Melancholia and the Cartesian Subject
In his lecture On Melancholy, Zizek claims that melancholia occurs not when we lose the object, but rather when the object is still here but we no longer desire it. According to Zizek melancholia as Freud defines it in Mourning
Melancholia and the Cartesian Subject
In his lecture On Melancholy, Zizek claims that melancholia occurs not when we lose the object, but rather when the object is still here but we no longer desire it. According to Zizek melancholia as Freud defines it in Mourning
On Civilised Progress and Barbaric Regress
One simply cannot conceal from oneself what all the willing that has received its direction from the ascetic ideal actually expresses: this hatred of the human, still more of the animal, still more of the material, this abhorrence of the
On Civilised Progress and Barbaric Regress
One simply cannot conceal from oneself what all the willing that has received its direction from the ascetic ideal actually expresses: this hatred of the human, still more of the animal, still more of the material, this abhorrence of the
Deterritorialization (via Larval Subjects.)
For many years I’ve been fascinated with Deleuze and Guattari‘s triad of deterritorialization, reterritorialization, and territory. Truth be told, when I first encountered these concepts I was repulsed. I found the language to be trendy and understood “deterritorialization” to refer
Deterritorialization (via Larval Subjects.)
For many years I’ve been fascinated with Deleuze and Guattari‘s triad of deterritorialization, reterritorialization, and territory. Truth be told, when I first encountered these concepts I was repulsed. I found the language to be trendy and understood “deterritorialization” to refer
Mortal, All Too Mortal: Nihilistic Speculations from Dr. Lawgiverz (3)
If you were to ask me at gunpoint, like Hollywood producers who are too stupid to read books and say, “give me the punchline,” and were to demand, “Three sentences. What are you really trying to do?” I would
Mortal, All Too Mortal: Nihilistic Speculations from Dr. Lawgiverz (3)
If you were to ask me at gunpoint, like Hollywood producers who are too stupid to read books and say, “give me the punchline,” and were to demand, “Three sentences. What are you really trying to do?” I would
Projective Identification and Introjection
Melanie Klein makes a distinction between introjected objects and the internal objects. The internal objects include the introjected objects as well as the objects of identification and the a priori fantasy images. According to Klein introjection is a defence mechanism
Projective Identification and Introjection
Melanie Klein makes a distinction between introjected objects and the internal objects. The internal objects include the introjected objects as well as the objects of identification and the a priori fantasy images. According to Klein introjection is a defence mechanism
Nature, Culture, and Lacan
To have dismantled love in order to become capable of a greater loving. To have dismantled one’s self in order finally to be alone and meet the true double at the other end of the line. A clandestine passenger on
Nature, Culture, and Lacan
To have dismantled love in order to become capable of a greater loving. To have dismantled one’s self in order finally to be alone and meet the true double at the other end of the line. A clandestine passenger on
Thinking the uncommon (via Indecent Bazaar)
In one of the most interesting post I have encountered recently in the blogosphere–Object-Oriented Psychoanalysis and Derridean Deconstruction–Cengiz Erdem argues that the common things of everyday existence are produced out of the depressive position or abnormalities. As the author comments,
Thinking the uncommon (via Indecent Bazaar)
In one of the most interesting post I have encountered recently in the blogosphere–Object-Oriented Psychoanalysis and Derridean Deconstruction–Cengiz Erdem argues that the common things of everyday existence are produced out of the depressive position or abnormalities. As the author comments,
Cinema and Fetishism, or, The Commercial Value of Shit
Even shit has a commercial value, depending of course, on whose shit it is. While in the case of human shit you have to pay to get rid of it, in the case of animal shit it is said to
Cinema and Fetishism, or, The Commercial Value of Shit
Even shit has a commercial value, depending of course, on whose shit it is. While in the case of human shit you have to pay to get rid of it, in the case of animal shit it is said to
A Pineal Eye Soliloquy, or, The Critique of Surrealism Continued
Image via Wikipedia Mimicry is a definitive word for the operations of Surrealist aesthetics and it enters the scene through the Surrealist publication Minotaure. Roger Caillois defines mimicry as the activity through which the eye becomes a camera reproducing itself
A Pineal Eye Soliloquy, or, The Critique of Surrealism Continued
Image via Wikipedia Mimicry is a definitive word for the operations of Surrealist aesthetics and it enters the scene through the Surrealist publication Minotaure. Roger Caillois defines mimicry as the activity through which the eye becomes a camera reproducing itself
The Nietzschean Subject
Nietzsche creates the concept of bad conscience as the generator of illness, which is in turn fed by the illness it generates, giving birth to the man of ressentiment.[1] Nietzsche’s ressentiment is what Melanie Klein calls envy. To be able
The Nietzschean Subject
Nietzsche creates the concept of bad conscience as the generator of illness, which is in turn fed by the illness it generates, giving birth to the man of ressentiment.[1] Nietzsche’s ressentiment is what Melanie Klein calls envy. To be able
The Immortal Subject Beyond The Life Death Drives
The Immortal Subject Beyond The Life Drive In our daily lives we create little worlds of our own and invest them with various meanings. These worlds have their own logics, orders repetitively staged every day; this gives us a sense
The Immortal Subject Beyond The Life Death Drives
The Immortal Subject Beyond The Life Drive In our daily lives we create little worlds of our own and invest them with various meanings. These worlds have their own logics, orders repetitively staged every day; this gives us a sense
Dark Chemistry on The Life Death Drives
Here is S.C. Hickman aka Dark Chemistry’s rather generous and no less rigorous reading of my doctoral dissertation The Life Death Drives… “Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there
Dark Chemistry on The Life Death Drives
Here is S.C. Hickman aka Dark Chemistry’s rather generous and no less rigorous reading of my doctoral dissertation The Life Death Drives… “Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there
Object-Oriented Psychoanalysis and Derridean Deconstruction (#Derridagate)
According to Melanie Klein we all oscillate between the paranoid-schizoid position and the depressive position throughout our lives. This means that none is normal since the world is a place in which all kinds of abnormalities take place all the
Object-Oriented Psychoanalysis and Derridean Deconstruction (#Derridagate)
According to Melanie Klein we all oscillate between the paranoid-schizoid position and the depressive position throughout our lives. This means that none is normal since the world is a place in which all kinds of abnormalities take place all the
Graham Harman: The Object Smasher; or, the rhetorics of rubble (via Dark Chemistry)
Here is another nice post from Dark Chemistry on Graham Harman as smasher of objects, which he opens with a fine quote from one of my articles on Artaud, Deleuze, will to nothingness and literature. life span of a full moon.
Graham Harman: The Object Smasher; or, the rhetorics of rubble (via Dark Chemistry)
Here is another nice post from Dark Chemistry on Graham Harman as smasher of objects, which he opens with a fine quote from one of my articles on Artaud, Deleuze, will to nothingness and literature. life span of a full moon.
Dark Chemistry > Alien Manifesto: The Interrogation of the Real – Speculations on Realism and Materialism (via Object-Oriented Philosophy)
What we witness in this time is Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World turning into Rave New World. A world in which the well known and the so called lines between mind and body, fantasy and reality, nature and culture, organic
Dark Chemistry > Alien Manifesto: The Interrogation of the Real – Speculations on Realism and Materialism (via Object-Oriented Philosophy)
What we witness in this time is Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World turning into Rave New World. A world in which the well known and the so called lines between mind and body, fantasy and reality, nature and culture, organic
“Where would I go, if I could go, who would I be, if I could be, what would I say, if I had a voice, who says this saying it’s me?” (Beckett – 2)
Where would I go, if I could go, who would I be, if I could be, what would I say, if I had a voice, who says this saying it’s me? Answer simply. It’s the same old stranger as ever,
“Where would I go, if I could go, who would I be, if I could be, what would I say, if I had a voice, who says this saying it’s me?” (Beckett – 2)
Where would I go, if I could go, who would I be, if I could be, what would I say, if I had a voice, who says this saying it’s me? Answer simply. It’s the same old stranger as ever,
Krapp’s Last Tape (Beckett – 1)
It is a characteristic of Beckett’s plays to give the impression that there is nothing outside the stage. In Beckett’s plays God is never allowed to die altogether, but rather God is made to be felt by the audience as
Krapp’s Last Tape (Beckett – 1)
It is a characteristic of Beckett’s plays to give the impression that there is nothing outside the stage. In Beckett’s plays God is never allowed to die altogether, but rather God is made to be felt by the audience as
The Imprisoned Creators of Our Times
The recent developments in electronic music present us with a good example of how the inorganic has become, at least in sound, more organic than the organic. With the rapid development of sound-producing machines it has become possible to create
The Imprisoned Creators of Our Times
The recent developments in electronic music present us with a good example of how the inorganic has become, at least in sound, more organic than the organic. With the rapid development of sound-producing machines it has become possible to create
Some Remarks About Fantasy (via Larval Subjects .)
“With respect to this Other, depending on this Other, the subject is inscribed as a quotient, he is marked by the unary trait of the signifier in the field of the Other. Well, it is not for all that, as
Some Remarks About Fantasy (via Larval Subjects .)
“With respect to this Other, depending on this Other, the subject is inscribed as a quotient, he is marked by the unary trait of the signifier in the field of the Other. Well, it is not for all that, as
The Significance of Gerald Edelman’s Cognitive Neuroscience
Cognitive neuroscience proposes that the quality of an external object is always already projected onto that object by the neuronal activity of the brain. What cognitive neuroscience lacks is a historical context, likewise what cultural studies lacks is an organic basis. An interaction
The Significance of Gerald Edelman’s Cognitive Neuroscience
Cognitive neuroscience proposes that the quality of an external object is always already projected onto that object by the neuronal activity of the brain. What cognitive neuroscience lacks is a historical context, likewise what cultural studies lacks is an organic basis. An interaction
Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, and the Critique of Contemporary Culture
Let us imagine a subject who finds himself in a certain situation which appears to have no escape route; a situation which nails him to a painful existence and brings him closer to extinction with every move he makes. What
Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, and the Critique of Contemporary Culture
Let us imagine a subject who finds himself in a certain situation which appears to have no escape route; a situation which nails him to a painful existence and brings him closer to extinction with every move he makes. What
Ben Woodard – ‘A Nature to Pulp the Stoutest Philosopher: Towards a Lovecraftian Philosophy of Nature’ (via REAL HORROR)
Special commissioned writing by Ben Woodard A Nature to Pulp the Stoutest Philosopher: Towards a Lovecraftian Philosophy of Nature The possibility of Lovecraftian philosophy (and a philosophy of nature) is at least a threefold weirdness: 1-Lovecraft’s own philosophical views were
Ben Woodard – ‘A Nature to Pulp the Stoutest Philosopher: Towards a Lovecraftian Philosophy of Nature’ (via REAL HORROR)
Special commissioned writing by Ben Woodard A Nature to Pulp the Stoutest Philosopher: Towards a Lovecraftian Philosophy of Nature The possibility of Lovecraftian philosophy (and a philosophy of nature) is at least a threefold weirdness: 1-Lovecraft’s own philosophical views were
Objet a and the Veil (via Larval Subjects .)
Eumerdification Over at Pagan Metaphysics, Paul has posted a couple of great quotes from Dennett’s Breaking the Spell. Hopefully he won’t mind if I reproduce his post here. Paul writes: I was reading through Dennett’s Breaking the Spell again yesterday
Objet a and the Veil (via Larval Subjects .)
Eumerdification Over at Pagan Metaphysics, Paul has posted a couple of great quotes from Dennett’s Breaking the Spell. Hopefully he won’t mind if I reproduce his post here. Paul writes: I was reading through Dennett’s Breaking the Spell again yesterday
Passing Across The Dead Zone and Moving Towards The Dread Zone
It is early 1974, “in Washington, Richard Nixon was being pressed slowly into a corner, wrapped in a snarl of magnetic tapes. […] In Room 619 of the Eastern Maine Medical Center, Johnny Smith still slept. He had begun to
Passing Across The Dead Zone and Moving Towards The Dread Zone
It is early 1974, “in Washington, Richard Nixon was being pressed slowly into a corner, wrapped in a snarl of magnetic tapes. […] In Room 619 of the Eastern Maine Medical Center, Johnny Smith still slept. He had begun to
Birer Fantezi Makinesi Olarak Sinematik Aygıt, Beyin ve Psişe
İdeoloji bireylerin gerçek varoluş koşullarıyla kurdukları hayalî ilişkinin bir temsilidir.[1] İdeoloji maddi bir varoluşa sahiptir.[2]
Birer Fantezi Makinesi Olarak Sinematik Aygıt, Beyin ve Psişe
İdeoloji bireylerin gerçek varoluş koşullarıyla kurdukları hayalî ilişkinin bir temsilidir.[1] İdeoloji maddi bir varoluşa sahiptir.[2]
Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek – Philosophy and Communism (10/15/2010 Video)
A Lacanian Ink Event – Jack Tilton Gallery – NYC, 10/15/2010 Introduction by Josefina Ayerza
Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek – Philosophy and Communism (10/15/2010 Video)
A Lacanian Ink Event – Jack Tilton Gallery – NYC, 10/15/2010 Introduction by Josefina Ayerza
Notes Towards an Object-Oriented Psychoanalysis -3
For Lacan there is this solipsistic period of life at the beginning. The subject becomes capable of making a distinction between himself and others after the Narcissistic period of the mirror stage. The subject’s ability to interpret and adapt shows
Notes Towards an Object-Oriented Psychoanalysis -3
For Lacan there is this solipsistic period of life at the beginning. The subject becomes capable of making a distinction between himself and others after the Narcissistic period of the mirror stage. The subject’s ability to interpret and adapt shows
Notes Towards an Object-Oriented Psychoanalysis – 1
Melanie Klein is the first psychoanalyst to analyse a pre-verbal and pre-Oedipal stage of development, that is, before the child starts to hate the father and wants to unite with the mother whom he believes to contain the father’s penis.
Notes Towards an Object-Oriented Psychoanalysis – 1
Melanie Klein is the first psychoanalyst to analyse a pre-verbal and pre-Oedipal stage of development, that is, before the child starts to hate the father and wants to unite with the mother whom he believes to contain the father’s penis.
Accelerationism
Accelerationism “But which is the revolutionary path? Is there one? – To withdraw from the world market, as Samir Amin advises Third World Countries to do, in a curious revival of the fascist “economic solution”? Or might it be to
Accelerationism
Accelerationism “But which is the revolutionary path? Is there one? – To withdraw from the world market, as Samir Amin advises Third World Countries to do, in a curious revival of the fascist “economic solution”? Or might it be to
The Correlation Between Freud, Cronenberg, Identical Twins, Gynecology and Videodrome Tapes
Dead Ringers With Dead Ringers (1988) Cronenberg shows the consequences of an attempt to get rid of the space between the me and the not me. The illusory absence of difference between Mantle twins Beverly and Elliot is their own
The Correlation Between Freud, Cronenberg, Identical Twins, Gynecology and Videodrome Tapes
Dead Ringers With Dead Ringers (1988) Cronenberg shows the consequences of an attempt to get rid of the space between the me and the not me. The illusory absence of difference between Mantle twins Beverly and Elliot is their own
Why Deleuze (still) matters: States, war-machines and radical transformation
By Andrew Robinson The usefulness of Deleuzian theory for social transformation will vary with the selection of which conceptual contributions one chooses to appropriate. Studying Deleuzian theory is complicated by characteristics of Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophical method. In What is
Why Deleuze (still) matters: States, war-machines and radical transformation
By Andrew Robinson The usefulness of Deleuzian theory for social transformation will vary with the selection of which conceptual contributions one chooses to appropriate. Studying Deleuzian theory is complicated by characteristics of Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophical method. In What is
Philosophy and Poetry PDF E-Books
Philosophy E-books Novalis The Birth of Novalis: Friedrich Von Hardenberg’s Journal of 1797, With Selected Letters and Documents Fichte Studies Philosophical Writings Herder Selected Writings on Aesthetics Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings Philosophical Writings Heidegger Contributions to
Philosophy and Poetry PDF E-Books
Philosophy E-books Novalis The Birth of Novalis: Friedrich Von Hardenberg’s Journal of 1797, With Selected Letters and Documents Fichte Studies Philosophical Writings Herder Selected Writings on Aesthetics Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings Philosophical Writings Heidegger Contributions to
The Projection-Introjection Mechanism in Jack Kerouac’s The Subterraneans
The consequences of projection of fantasies onto the Real can be clearly observed in Kerouac’s The Subterraneans, which was quite a subversive book in its time, carrying Kerouac quite high up the cultural ladder, and in Burroughsian terms “causing thousands
The Projection-Introjection Mechanism in Jack Kerouac’s The Subterraneans
The consequences of projection of fantasies onto the Real can be clearly observed in Kerouac’s The Subterraneans, which was quite a subversive book in its time, carrying Kerouac quite high up the cultural ladder, and in Burroughsian terms “causing thousands
Consequences of Messing With Nature: Cronenberg, Lacan, Klein
With the aim of changing the past, an impossible thing to do, the subject messes with nature, and his intrusion causes the very event which he was trying to prevent from happening. Just like Oedipus’s father who, in escape from
Consequences of Messing With Nature: Cronenberg, Lacan, Klein
With the aim of changing the past, an impossible thing to do, the subject messes with nature, and his intrusion causes the very event which he was trying to prevent from happening. Just like Oedipus’s father who, in escape from
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