Category Archive: freud

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20 Feb

Dream

    “When I’m dreaming back like that I begins to see we’re only all telescopes.” Joyce, Finnegans Wake     Dream-analysis does not necessitate an affirmation of the existence of…
Friday, February 20, 2009 at 8:40 pm By Joseph Weissman 14 Replies
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06 Jul

It Means Becoming Human

But he [Lacan] did not realize the consequences of his rupture with Freudian determinism, and didn’t appropriately situate “desiring machines” — whose theory he had iniated — within incorporeal fields…
Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 10:57 pm By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
02 May

From a Melancholy Science to a Negative Diale(c)t(h)ics

Everyone will agree that it is of the highest importance to know whether we are not duped by morality. Emmanuel Levinas—Totality and Infinity It is a question of attaining this…
Friday, May 2, 2008 at 4:09 pm By Taylor Adkins 2 Replies
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12 Mar

Affectivity, or What is an Event?

Events are volcanic. The event opens upon an outside, a beyond, a resonant and enigmatic depth. Events move the world, releasing free and untamed vibrations within and without us. They…
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 6:55 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
06 Feb

Notes on Eros and Civilization

Notes on Eros and Civilization In Eros and Civilization, Herbert Marcuse presents Freud at the level of metaphysical psychology. That is: we find Freud engaged in overturning “conventional” metaphysics through…
Wednesday, February 6, 2008 at 1:26 am By Joseph Weissman 6 Replies
14 Oct

Time and the Cultural Unconscious: Nietzsche and the Future

Woman at the Window Salvador Dalí, oil on board (1925) What do we understand to be the boundaries of our neighbor: I mean that which he as it were engraves…
Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 12:00 am By Joseph Weissman 3 Replies
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30 Sep

Nietzsche and the Unconscious: Ethics, Desire, Politics

Cy Twombly, Untitled [1970. Oil-based house paint and crayon on canvas. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo: © 2004 Matthew Septimus] Granted that nothing is ‘given’ as real…
Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 5:27 pm By Joseph Weissman 3 Replies
29 Sep

Nietzsche and Sexual Politics: Energy and Difference in Power Relations

Dionysos and Ariadne We do not generally recognize how temporary our concepts and customs are. Foucault has argued our modern concept of sexuality is rooted inextricably in the specific marriage…
Saturday, September 29, 2007 at 11:30 pm By Joseph Weissman 3 Replies
19 May

One

What is it to say “we are one”? The beginning of psychic life is not in principle distinguishable from the beginning of material life [1]. What a laugh to have…
Saturday, May 19, 2007 at 5:42 am By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
12 Mar

Bergson (Attention)

“Collecting, organizing the totality of its experience in what we call its character, the mind causes it to converge upon actions in which we shall afterwards find, together with the…
Monday, March 12, 2007 at 5:19 am By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
07 Feb

Pleasure and Epistemology (Freud’s Outline of Psychoanalysis)

It is right here and right now that we must ask: is our knowledge about to commence or already at its end? The question is not as straightforward as it…
Wednesday, February 7, 2007 at 5:07 pm By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
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