YOU THE LIVING


Be pleased then, you living one, in your delightfully warmed bed, before Lethe’s ice-cold wave will lick your escaping foot. – Goethe.   I had a nightmare. Get lost! Scram! Now that’s not very nice of you. No one understands me.   What the hell are you talking about? No one bloody understands me! No […]

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LOVE – LACANIAN


“Love is giving what you don’t have.” (p. 34). When a person begins to fall in love, the thing that they have to offer their beloved is the fact that something is missing from their life, a hole that only the beloved can fill. This is what can make unrequited love so painful, for the […]

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Pleasure & Jouissance


Pleasure, says Lacan, is a reduction of tension in the psychic system.  For example, pleasure is the satisfaction I get when I eat a great meal when I’m very hungry.  Jouissance, by contrast, is when you compulsively eat and eat and eat, despite the fact that your continued consumption causes you a great deal of […]

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DESIRE – LACAN


Desire exceeds need and uses demand as its vehicle “… Desire is neither the appetite for satisfaction nor the demand for love, but the difference that results from the subtraction of the first from the second, the very phenomenon of their splitting (Spaltung)” (Ecrits, 690-692). “Desire is situated in dependence on demand – which, by […]

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JOUISSANCE – LACAN


“A strong egoism is a protection against falling ill, but in the last resort we must begin to love in order not to fall ill, and we are bound to fall ill if, in consequence of frustration, we are unable to love”(SE XIV, 85). Love is thereby the antidote to a kind of caustic narcissism […]

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20th Century Women


She’s compensating for her loneliness.   Having your heart broken is a tremendous way to learn about the world.   “Sex is a commitment, once you’re there, you can’t go back to holding hands, and when you give yourself, both mentally and physically, well, you’re completely vulnerable.   “Of all the misconceptions about love, the […]

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AFTER LIFE (2019)


I shouldn’t have to explain this to you. You can’t just go around being rude to people. You can, though. That’s the beauty of it. There’s no advantage to being nice and thoughtful and caring and having integrity. It’s a disadvantage, if anything. Well, if you carry on like this, I might have to let you […]

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SUMMER REVIEW


Romance just isn’t for everyone sorry go home and feel bad about it …? You’ll be alone forever since all romance ends in tragedy anyways. The doomed relationship, on the other hand, represents a different type of goal that the characters are trying to attain. A goal they didn’t even know they were headed for. […]

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