http://lutecium.us/blog Forum of Lutecium: Lacanian non-school of Psychoanalysis Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:14:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By Rebecca Bauknight, Ph.D. After my provocative course posting which likened object relations to pornography I received the following questions which I thought were helpful in articulating Lacanian clinical work. But before posting this Q and A. I wanted to perhaps focus an ongoing discussion on the following points. Why is a ... http://lutecium.us/blog/2010/09/04/welcome-to-the-clinic-of-the-real/ Coming back from the summer break, I look forward to the unfolding of dialogues and exchanges here. I hope for traces of thinking captured in a post or a comment.  I hope you will join me. Recently, I have been reflecting on the concept/process of alienation and its (surprisingly) contradictory meanings ... http://lutecium.us/blog/2010/08/08/departure-from-silence-on-the-appearing-and-disappearing-subject/ Welcome to the Lutecium blog.  We invite you to participate in and contribute to our Open Cartel.  If you are interested, please subscribe to our blog by clicking on "Log-in" below.  Your account and your first posting will have to be confirmed, so please allow 24 hours to process your ... http://lutecium.us/blog/2010/05/21/welcome/ I am getting geared up for our March Lutecium immersion where Jacques Siboni and Robert Groome will be formally presenting to our candidates and faculty .......Lacan's topology...Lacan's later work.  Recently I stumbled across the beginning of a paper entitled "The Aesthetic Illogic of the symtom".  I had begun the paper ten years ... http://lutecium.us/blog/2009/02/26/ode-to-topology/ What is the trace in transmission. A trace is the remainder of the object a that comes to us in a very nostaligic and particular way that "moves us deeply".  The trace is of this world and not of this world since there is something that we are hit with that resides within our ... http://lutecium.us/blog/2009/02/24/the-trace-in-transmission/ Aden As you know, in Lacan's later work he laid out the symptomotology of the phallic jouissance as well as the feminine jouissance.  The earlier work is concerned with taking a look at how various character structures are moving around the symbolic/the law of the father.  The later  Lacan sees that ... http://lutecium.us/blog/2009/02/23/lost-at-the-corner-of-object-a-and-the-symbolic-the-ethics-of-jouissance/ rebecca, i want to respond and add.  1-  i do not know a flower mister or mistress fit to invite besides myself.  let me be her.  i have texture and color and waterlogged fingers to show for it.  2- the dessert, where no flowers grow.  yes. 3- This is scary mirroring of sympom/analysis, love/marriage. scared.  your ... http://lutecium.us/blog/2009/02/21/hyesterical-fears-of-appropriation-nation/ Adenneu, As I think of appropriation I am thinking of arrangments. And as we begin to arrange and rearrange=why not invite a "master" or "mistress" flower designer  into our group as a plus one. There are several reasons I think of this. One it is working with surfaces, it is learning how ... http://lutecium.us/blog/2009/01/20/the-unanalyzeable-the-illicit-and-the-inappropriated-other/ is inappropriate(d) discourse mainly that which is outside of the male imaginary/symbolic register?  is this a new kind of word often confused with illicit that can represent an entre into a world populated with S1s?  is that what all the excitement is about?  the waking up, the serendipity of meeting ... http://lutecium.us/blog/2009/01/19/illicit-vs-inappropriated/ I take on for the fun of it and the need of it a Celine approach with three..dots….fragmented sentences….and a cynicism regarding my impoverished surroundings…..I serve in a vacuum…a desert of the mind…half asleep at times to get by here…questioning the death of not the body….not god….but the death of ... http://lutecium.us/blog/2009/01/18/on-the-inappropriated-trinh-t-minh-ha-cartel/