Category Archive: psychoanalysis

World War I, Wasily Kandinsky
17 Sep

Soul

A man like Kant can explain the beautiful in terms of a pure disinterested pleasure — such a knotted definition is not in itself surprising, nor is the kind of…
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 9:50 pm By Joseph Weissman 5 Replies
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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
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
05 Mar

Metaphysics beyond Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious, Language and Reality after Heidegger and Deleuze

Metaphysics beyond Psychoanalysis 0: Entryways “What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?” Lacan “Lacan never pursues purely philosophical objectives.” Badiou…
Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at 9:58 pm By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
21 Feb

Lacan and the Formula of the “Purloined Letter”

Now, it seems more and more clear to us that this subject who speaks is beyond the ego…It’s also the question…to what extent does the symbolic relation, the relation of…
Thursday, February 21, 2008 at 7:11 pm By Taylor Adkins 4 Replies
12 Feb

Evaluating Value

Under what conditions did men invent for themselves these value judgments good and evil? And what inherent value do they have? Have they hindered or fostered human well-being up to…
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 12:09 am By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
18 Jan

Deleuze and Schizophrenia

[My translation follows. A particular difficulty of Deleuze's unique expressions here is that a verbal form of ‘delirium’ is often used in the original French and in its Italian rendition.…
Friday, January 18, 2008 at 7:12 pm By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
25 Nov

Universal Computation and The Laws of Form

Remarks on Turing and Spencer-Brown (Joseph Weissman) Introduction Computation is holographic. Information processing is a formal operation made abstract only by a reduction in the number of free variables, a…
Sunday, November 25, 2007 at 11:25 pm By Joseph Weissman 7 Replies
17 Nov

Cyborg Nietzsche: Conscience, Affect, Transvaluation

Part One: Criticism and Untruth-Machines A. Neurosis and Transcendence: the Algebra of Bad Conscience We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.  Marcel Proust For Nietzsche,…
Saturday, November 17, 2007 at 3:10 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
05 Sep

Bachelard and the Psychoanalysis of Affective Stereotypes

A word will suddenly reverberate in us and find too lingering an echo in cherished, old ideas; an image will light up and persuade us outright, abruptly, and all at…
Wednesday, September 5, 2007 at 10:25 am By Taylor Adkins Leave a Reply
01 Apr

Lacan and The Problem of Foundations

“Psychoanalysis has played a role in the direction of modern subjectivity, and it cannot sustain this role without aligning it with the movement in modern science that elucidates it. “This…
Sunday, April 1, 2007 at 6:26 am By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
10 Feb

Badiou / Lacan / Descartes

In the last chapter of Being and Event, Alain Badiou investigates Lacan’s relation to (what Badiou perceives as) his contiguity with the history of thought since Descartes. Badiou confronts Lacan…
Saturday, February 10, 2007 at 5:29 pm 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
05 Feb

Lacan and Artificial Intelligence

Here I’d like to try to make a little more explicit some of the more provocative interrelations between Lacan’s philosophical and psychoanalytic project and the goals of modern artificial intelligence.…
Monday, February 5, 2007 at 4:05 pm By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
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