Lacan Circle Of Australia
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The official Twitter account of the Lacan Circle of Australia (est. 2003), an affiliate of the NLS (WAP). We support clinical Lacanian psychoanalytic formation.
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“It is essential that the father is not God. Freud had shown the root of the religious illusion in the father function, and Lacan, on the contrary, marks the divine mirage that is properly mortifying or psychotising when it is supported by the father.” @jamplus The One-All-Alone
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Today in Brazilian Lacanian hair products LACAN LISS PROGRESS With thanks to @lacancosmeticos, whose motto is “Love your hair? Use Lacan”
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Sigmund Freud by letter to Sándor Ferenczi, 1911
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what was at issue.” Jacques Lacan, Seminar III, The Psychoses, page 90
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“Dora is a hysteric, and as such she has unusual object relationships. You know the difficulty that the ambiguity surrounding the issue of who her love object really is contributes both to his observations and to the pursuit of the cure. Freud eventually realised his mistake...
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“I am accustoming myself to the idea of regarding every sexual act as a process in which four persons are involved.” Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1899 Drawing by Miles Johnston
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four elements, which is enough to contain potentially, within itself, the entire combinatory from which the organisation of signifiers will emerge.” Jacques Lacan, Seminar V, Formations of the Unconscious, page 206 Hyatt Moore, Mother and Son
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“Then what is involved in love? Is love, as psychoanalysis claims with an audacity that is all the more incredible as all of its experience runs counter to the very notion, and as it demonstrates to the contrary - is love about making One? Is Eros a tension toward the One.” JL
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personal essays, stories, parables, and philosophical, historical, and scientific discussions.
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It is with objet a that we are in relation. Lacan
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