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Book Review: A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Author : feross
Score : 17 points
Date : 2022-04-26 18:02 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| edmcnulty101 wrote:
| Better than the Laconian pens.
| philosopher1234 wrote:
| I wonder if folks would have a better time with Freud than Lacan.
| Lacan is not a settled matter among clinical psychoanalysts, in
| fact I reckon the majority of them aren't so fond of him. I would
| think of Lacanian psychoanalysis as a distinctive strain of
| thought, different from Freudian, kleinian, etc. psychoanalysis
| is hard to understand, but some of it is a fair bit easier than
| Lacan.
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| Which is not to say that Lacan is the future modality held back
| by conservative/regressive institutions, though he may be.
| scarecrowbob wrote:
| I've read this, and I am currently working through Fink's _The
| Lacanian Subject: Between Language And Jouissance_.
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| There are some interesting points in the work (enough to keep me
| looking at it over the years), but I find this area of thought to
| be a deep and confusing set of ideas.
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| At this point, I am not sure there's really a lot of "there"
| there in general. I've been trying to figure out this line of
| thought for more than a decade and some change.
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| But I've never been in a position where I could afford to engage
| in psychoanalysis, so maybe the Lacanian practitioners I know who
| tell me I won't really get "it" without actually practicing as an
| analysand or analyst are right. I suppose they'd know.
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| However, I've really enjoyed a lot of the cultural marginalia
| generated by psychoanalysis. Other than Zizek, I think that
| Alone's writing here was quite interesting:
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| https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/
| beepbooptheory wrote:
| In another world, where the interdisciplinary cards fell a little
| differently, and the history of clinical psychiatry sustained
| talking therapy in lieu of pharmaceutical hegemony, I think
| programmers of all types would read Lacan a lot more. Not for any
| one of his clinical findings, but as so many lessons in system
| design. As so many lessons in the determining nature of syntax.
| As inspiration for they way infrastructure determines
| superstructure. The clinical stuff was obviously the most
| important thing to him, but it doesn't even touch on his thoughts
| about language, which turns out to be thoughts on cybernetics,
| and the spontaneous effects of making some variables static and
| others dynamic, so to speak, that's really all it is. That, IMO,
| is where the good stuff is, if your not an analyst.
| Sakos wrote:
| Entertaining read. I particularly enjoyed the comments.
| omeze wrote:
| I found "How to Read Lacan" by Zizek a great introduction as
| someone who has 0 psychology or philosophy background. As another
| poster mentioned Im still not sure how much "there is", but I
| found the concept of the Other to be interesting. But I also
| don't think it's too healthy outside of a clinical setting to try
| and reduce human desire to a formula. People should try to
| understand each other one-on-one without diagnosing or labeling
| either party's behavior. It feels like a lot of interest in
| Girard and Lacan stem from trying to manipulate or predict
| people, which may be a useful tool some of the time (doctor <>
| patient) but is no way to live day-to-day!
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