December 2011
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iwillanalyseveryoneyoulove:
Began reading Freud’s ‘Civilisation and Its Discontents’.
Some rather interesting ruminations in there concerning aggression and sexuality.
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Disorder Disorder
afleainthefurofthebeast:
At this rate, the DSM-6 will declare criticizing the DSM-5 a disorder.
At stake in the fight between Frances and the APA is more than professional turf, more than careers and reputations, more than the $6.5 million in sales that the DSM averages each year. The book is the basis of psychiatrists’ authority to pronounce upon our mental health, to command health care...
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Therapists revolt against psychiatry’s bible →
marikunin:
Mental health professionals say new diagnoses will lead to overmedication.
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Listen
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I Was an Under-Age Semiotician →
room421:
Back in October, Steven Johnson wrote a funny essay in the NY Times Sunday Book Review which rang more than a few familiar bells to this early-90’s, pre-internet English major. It was about both the pretensions and the legacy of those who were drawn to the study of semiotics during its height:
There were dozens of splinter groups huddled beneath the semiotics flag: Derrida’s...
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TO REBLOGGERS- PLEASE DO NOT REBLOG, PLEASE...
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Miss MD To Be: Eva Perone Lobotomized for Pain... →
missmd2be:
“Now a Yale researcher has uncovered surprising new evidence of a famous patient who apparently received a lobotomy for cancer pain during that time: Eva Perón, the first lady of Argentina, who was known as Evita. The story is an interesting, sad footnote in the history not only of lobotomy, but…
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tiger's milk: i believe that mental illnesses are... →
tigersmilk:
i believe that mental illnesses are primarily social constructs founded upon a complex array of forms of social control and order. however, having been personally afflicted with one of these so called ‘mental illnesses’ (in my case, it is commonly referred to as a ‘disorder,’ which is more…
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“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If...”
– How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later Phillip K. Dick (via notational)
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sychoticbreak:
this is PPH’s diagnosis of me:
“Bipolar Disorder Type II; marijuana dependence in early remission”
WTF marijuana dependence?! for real? faggets
also they need to decide whether or not they think i’m BPD or BDII because nobody seems to agree on that
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Watchbrainprivacy:
Mark Solms, Part 1: Neuropsychoanalysis – The Conscious Id
Join us at this important meeting, to consider whether the neuroscientific evidence that will be presented indicates that the primitive part of the mind which Freud described as the ‘id’ is intrinsically conscious, and the reality-oriented ‘ego’ is unconscious — and that it derives its consciousness from the endogenous id...
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Brain Privacy: Inner speech as the basis for... →
” This study examines the role played by the symbolic functioning process identified by L. S. Vygotsky (1962) as inner speech in the internalization process undergone by the artist as he reflects his experience of the world at large in his work. The process accountable for the generation of both…
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9. A New Differential Diagnosis between Neurotic...
So that his object remain in this quasi-inanimate—that is, non-desirous—state, the obsessional is prepared to offer the woman what amounts to a cult. This worship is one of the worst attitudes to take toward a woman, since it tends to neutralize in advance any desirous inclination on her part. To achieve his goal, the subject will nourish the abiding fantasy that he can do everything...
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7. The Pervert and the Law of the Father [ii]
To the extent that the other is his tacit accomplice, the pervert can mobilize his defiance as a means of access to jouissance. But regardless of the variety of ways in which it is put into effect, the perverse strategy remains the same. It always consists in leading the other astray with regard to the landmarks and the limits that determine the other’s relation to the law…
The way...
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7. The Pervert and the Law of the Father
The problematics of denial have a distinctive organization in the pervert. Whereas in hysteria and obsessional neurosis it is the imaginary possession of the phallic object that is challenged, in the perversions the fundamental defiance is directed to the Law of the Father. It occurs within the dialectic of being or not being the phallus. For the obsessional and the hysteric, on the other hand,...
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6. The Differential Diagnosis of Perversions,...
In the case of masculine hysteria, defiance likewise comes under the heading of phallic attribution. It is as if the subject engages in defiance only when called upon by the other’s desire. In this particular dialectic of desire, the hysterical man hurls and intolerable challenge at himself, one that results from an equation of desire with virility. For him, to be desirable necessarily...
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5. The Anchoring Point of Perversions
It is precisely this shadow cast by the symbolic father that the pervert will ignore from the moment the question arises for him of acknowledging something on the order of lack in the other. The aim of his disavowal, that is, his protest, is to reject any possibility of symbolization of this lack. The resut is the pervert’s typical mode of functioning, in which a truth concerning the...
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For you I’m cooked to you so rare / You are...
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World Masturbation Champion Prefers Anime Girls to... →
“A real female, of course, smells, is dirty…” Masanobu said. “Of course, because it’s a human being, it has lots of things. So we have this anime, isn’t it clean and pretty?”
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To understand is to perceive patterns →
metaman:
“Put simply: cities are like ant colonies are like software is like slime molds are like evolution is like disease is like sewage systems are like poetry is like the neural pathways in our…
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“I gather from your letter that your son is a homosexual. I am most impressed by...”
– In 1935, Sigmund Freud wrote to a mother who had asked him to treat her son’s homosexuality, a letter that would later become famous. (via thejazzpoet)
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Behold, The Tragic Comedy!: Seriously?! The world... →
thextragicxcomedy:
“Sexual addiction” is now being looked upon as a disorder or a component of a disorder? Okay, some cases COULD be a component of Bi-polar/Obsessive Compulsive/or one of the many REAL depressive disorders, but not ALL cases. It seems so much easier for psychiatric physicians to diagnose a certain…
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hairywine:
havssol:
Sonic Youth -...
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A pretty big bitch-slap
shitmystudentswrite:
This event was a wake-up call in which our human tendency to deny death was faced with a pretty big bitch-slap of how such thinking, such complacency, is but a fool’s dream.
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Recession Yields Danker Nugs & Next Gen Dealers →
“Maybe I’ll go back to school,” he said when I asked how long he planned on doing this. “I don’t know. These are scary times. The recession came, and I started looking for other options. Everyone’s an amateur in the beginning. And then you’re not an amateur anymore.”
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“If psychoanalysis was late-19th-century secular Judaism’s way of finding...”
– David Rackoff, “Christmas Freud,” This American Life (via queenlafetus)
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Let's All Get Digital!: I argue Freud with my... →
firebegetsice:
But why I am saying this is that in our session earlier this month, he thought it was weird that I hate the holiday season. So he decided to dig deeper.
His argument was that, a) my mom was born on Christmas, and the fact that I’m gay means that I had an overbearing mother and absentee father,…
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International Neuropsychoanalysis Centre →
chuckangeline:
Building Bridges Between Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience, Psychology and Psychiatry
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Mentally ill flood ER as states cut services →
chaoticlibra:
“Often you have a patient strapped to a gurney in a hallway outside of the emergency department where social workers are desperately trying to find an inpatient bed,” he said.
smdh. this is getting out of hand.
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PSYCHOANALYSIS
whorevidal:
Sigmund Freud had already been sworn off cocaine for ten years by the time his central work, ‘The Interpretation of Dreams’, was published in 1900. But the idea that dreams show people their own symbolically encrypted fantasy worlds and that they can be deciphered in therapeutic conversation owes a great deal to cocaine. This is not only because of cocaine’s lowering of psychic...
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to-be-or-not-to-be:
I discovered Sigmund Freud in the city library at the age of twelve. I was not able to get my hands on all his works, but I did notice the large section of his writing and writings pertaining to him.
There went my innocence.
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Semiotics: An Introduction
digitalaesthetics:
Semiotics is the study of signs and symbols as elements of communicative behavior. Though closely related to the field of linguistics, as well as having numerous different applications and philosophical backgrounds, we are concerned with its influence on us visually. These “signs” are an omnipresent force in our lives that surround us 24/7, and have an amazing effect on us....
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saucysoundadvice:
It is a wretched slavery of the soul, indeed, to be satisfied with signs instead of realities, and not to be able to elevate the eye of the mind above the sensible realities to drink in eternal light.
Augustine
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concrete rules, differences & equivalences...:... →
driftwork:
“… The aim of a theory1 is to provide a method whereby objects of a given nature are to be described. The aim is achieved by ordering the given object, together with any other realizable objects that are amenable to such treatment, as plane (or plane-derivate) in a semiotic which, to comply with…