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“…whereas he doesn't know all that much himself - is he who takes upon himself the task of propping up the subject-supposed-to-know.”

“What constitutes an effect of the symbolic on the field of the imaginary?”

“Everything Freud introduced by way of a logic of sex is based on a single term, which is truly its original term: a lack known as castration. This essential "minus" is of a logical nature, and nothing can function without it. All normativity is, for both men and women, organized around the transmission of a lack.”

“They conclude therefrom that if the subject were no longer divided, jouissance would be refound. Yet we have to be very careful here. The subject determines the structure of jouissance, but all we can hope for from it, until things change radically, are recovery practices.”

Introduction.

The essence of the Psychoanalytic theory is a speechless discourse.


( ...) Regarding the garbage bin, in these times dominated by the geniality of Samuel Becket, we have a certain knowledge of it. Personally, for having inhabited three Psychoanalytic societies over 30 years,..., I understand a bit what cohabiting with domestic garbage is.😎