February 2012
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14. The Partial Drive and Its Circuit
What occurs in voyeurism? At the moment of the act of the voyeur, where is the subject, where is the object? I have told you that the subject is not there in the sense of seeing, at the level of the scopic drive. He is there as a pervert and he is situated only at the culmination of the loop. As for the object—this is what my topology on the blackboard cannot show you, but can allow you...
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13. The Deconstruction of the Drive
What exactly does Freud mean by Trieb? Is he referring to something whose agency is exercised at the level of the organism in its totality? Does the real qua totality irrupt here? Are we concerned here with the living organism? No. It is always a question quite specifically of the Freudian field itself, in the most undifferentiated form that Freud gave it at the outset, which at this level, in the...
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Scheiße auf dem Bürgersteig / Totes Leben in...
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circulationwithinmyskull:
Show me cognitive harmony and counterpoint, the music of the spheres…
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IRISH EXITS: I’m really interested in completely... →
pregnant-teen-mom:
I’m really interested in completely taking apart how people look at mental health and putting it back together again because
1. Drugs play too big a role (NOT THAT THEY SHOULDN’T BE ACCESSIBLE FOR PEOPLE WHO NEED THEM THOUGH)
2. People mis-interpret, mis-report, and over-report psychological…
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sputtering:
small talk
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Mirror stage theory, what ARE you?!
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I am balls deep in Freud at the moment, bleh.
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why Isolation?
apodemussylvaticus:
I wondered if folk with experience of these things could answer a wondering of mine? Why in psychiatric wards do people get locked up in isolation? Surely I would have thought, to lock a fundamentally social type of animal up in enforced isolation would have adverse effects on mental state???
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“Of the 29 experts writing DSM-5, 21 received honoraria, consultancy fees or...”
– Reason #1 you and I should not put blind faith in psychiatry.
Why full disclosure is healthy - New Scientist
(via opendaylight)
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Haldol Doubles Mortality in Elderly →
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Harvard Researcher Says Antidepressant Trials... →
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Notable News in Psychology: More on the DSM-V:... →
psychitsnicole:
Today, I’d like to bring your attention to an article related to Monday’s post about the DSM-V. This was actually posted back in January, but it was just brought to my attention recently by a fellow tumblr-er. Dr. Ronald Pies presents a radical proposition - why psychiatry needs to ditch…
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“There is something inherently wrong with a health-care system that allows a...”
– APA Chief Executive Officer Norman B. Anderson, PhD, 2011 (via travelhikepsych)
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mutualwh0re:
Sigmund Freud had some seriously fucked up ideas about mental illnesses.
I just read a snippet of his ‘Little Hans’ study and it was beyond strange oh my God.
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“It is in speaking that the germ of all change is found.”
– Ferdinand de Saussure / Course in General Linguistics, via The Subject of Semiotics (From Sign to Subject, A Short History) by Kaja Silverman (via blackdenimgumby)
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0.00000000198 Centimeters Per Second: Sigmund... →
catslevania:
You’ve probably heard people talk about “defense mechanisms,” or ways that we protect ourselves from things that we don’t want to think about or deal with. The term got its start in psychoanalytic therapy, but it has slowly worked its way into everyday language. Think of the last time you referred…
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Reading Freud's "The Uncanny":
sink-the-seine:
“omg this is like soooooooo heimlich rn”
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kittyxvx:
Does anyone really take Sigmund Freud seriously?
Like I can understand kids from like 0-1 do like to put things in their mouth for discovery (like bottles and toys) but calling it the “Oral stage” in “the psychosexual development”
And then 2-3 is anal stage
3-6 is phallic stage (which includes the fucking Oedipus/Electra complex)
And so on
why does he have to make EVERYTHING...
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The Decline and Fall of Parental Authority... →
psychotherapy:
via Psychotherapy Networker:
American parents today face a perfect storm of cultural and social circumstances that undermine the very foundations of parental authority. In response, mothers and fathers are beginning to see therapists as irrelevant and to challenge the entire social, educational, and economic context of childrearing. On a day long before the Occupy Wall Street...
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Writing a paper about Freud,
massivenights:
about his letter “A Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis.” It’s making me question my own motives for wanting to travel, and question whether travel will actually make me happy, and question my attachment to my home, and question…
Fuck you, Freud. I just want to travel. You’re dead and sexist and I hate you.
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scars-for-stories:
Time for some psychoanalytic theory.
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A Marked Ambivalence
At one thousand tumbles, does our blogger continue to trudge forth in the name of the Freudian cause?
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agardenstatement:
There is so much Freud on my dash right now omfg I love it.
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“Cocaine is a hell of drug.”
– Sigmund Freud (via incorrecthistoryquotes)
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XXIV. The paradoxes of ethics or Have you acted in...
I propose then that, from an analytical point of view, the only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one’s desire.
Whether it is admissible or not in a given ethics, that proposition expresses quite well something that we observe in our experience. In the last analysis, what a subject really feels guilty about when he manifests guilt at bottom always has...
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Interview with Jacques Lacan, 1957
Interviewer: A psychoanalyst is very intimidating. One has the feeling that he could manipulate you as he wishes, that he knows more than you about the motives of your actions.
Lacan: Don’t exaggerate. Do you think that this effect is exclusive to the psycho-analyst? An economist, for many, is as mysterious as an analyst. In our time, it is the expert who intimidates. With psychology, even when seen as a science, everyone thought they had the insider’s track. Now, with psychoanalysis, we have the feeling of having lost that privilege; that the analyst could be capable of seeing something quite secret in what appears to you to be quite clear. There you lie naked, uncovered, under a well-informed eye, and without knowing what you are showing him.
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The non-communicable disease paradox →
fuckyeahjean-lucgodard:
“Severe symptoms of poor health are declining, even as chronic diseases such as cancer and diabetes are on the increase.”
such bullshit. here’s how to read this, honestly: ‘physicians are no longer diagnosing chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, etc. in poor patients because they do not view it as profitable, and they do not want to waste their time searching...
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XXIII. The moral goals of psychoanalysis
That ought to put you on the right track. In a famous article called “Mourning an Melancholia,” Freud also says that the work of mourning is applied to an incorporated object, to an object which for one reason or another one is not particularly fond of. As far as the loved object that we make such a fuss about in our mourning is concerned, we do not, in fact, simply sing its praises,...
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XXII. The demand for happiness and the promise of...
…The question of the Sovereign Good is one that man has asked himself since time immemorial, but the analyst knows that it is a question that is closed. Not only doesn’t he have that Sovereign Good that is asked of him, but he also knows there isn’t any. To have carried an analysis through to its end is no more nor less than to have encountered that limit in which the problematic...
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“The erotic functions for me in several ways, and the first is in providing the...”
– Audre Lorde (via thechocolatebrigade)
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Sex--Evolution Favors Pleasure As Well As... →
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Our cells regenerate every seven years
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By the time you’re fourteen, you’re an entirely different person from who you were at birth, two times over. It goes against Sigmund Freud’s theory that you are who you’ll always be by fourteen years old, and everything after that is just fine tuning and polishing, but that’s physical law for you.
Entirely different. Not a single similarity in the world.
Every seven years.
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I have so much Freud to read for tomorrow
mite-whimsical:
but I came on tumblr and saw the pretty and now Freud can go fuck himself.
he’d probably love it..or at least love writing about it.
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Evolution of public attitudes about mental... →
blinko:
a study has come out showing that conceptualizing mental health issues as a biologically based illness does not result in decreased stigma but instead potentially increases stigma. Fuck yes.
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