Lacan

[close] Psychoanalysis, rhetoric and literature have more in common than it might seem. Freud himself wrote and set the path of exploring psychoanalysis and the psyche via referring and analyzing literary creations and philosophical concepts. Many psychoanalysts have followed this tradition of learning from art about the psyche, and this is the aim of this group - Reading Psychoanalysis in Literary Arts.

[close] Sylvia Bataille somehow bagged Jacques Lacan("the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud", according to Mr. Google, which as we all know: never tells a lie) , AND!!! Georges Bataille, French writer, anthropologist, archivist and philosopher best known for his novella Story of the Eye. This group is primarily a discussion board based on "What was so captivating about Sylvia Bataille? (in theory) " I guess I just think she has one hellov'a track record as far as marital partners go. Sylvia Bataille achieved the modern day equivalent of a Clinton-Lewinsky-scandal followed by a an Instagram official relationship status with Slavoj Žižek...okay obviously that is only hypothetically accurate but in terms of who she could (in theory) be seen coupling-up with in the tabloids of 2021 I'd say that my statement is empirically and irrefutably factual. ...this may be one of those things where she must've been a member of the social elite so naturally the men she ended up with were very well known popular figures, but I have become fixated on her, and I believe there was something especially special about her. -Hunt, Jamer Kennedy (1995). "Absence to presence: The life history of Sylvia [Bataille] Lacan (France)". Rice University Electronic Theses and Dissertations. unarchived on 18 October 2021.

[close] More fun to read than most psychoanalysts' writing and still as clear as doing the NY Time's crossword puzzle backwards searching for the context for a given word ... or signifier!

[close] A forum to discuss philosophy and the psychonanalytic tradition