Category Archive: unconscious

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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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15 Apr

Wandering Shadows: Reflections on Morality and Madness

In the disparity between the awareness of unreason and the awareness of madness, we have, at the end of the eighteenth century, the point of departure for a decisive movement:…
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 1:55 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
08 Mar

On Learning

One way of approaching the difference between knowledge and learning (so profound in our opinion that, despite their entanglement, there can be postulated neither a material nor conceptual ground which…
Saturday, March 8, 2008 at 6:23 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
20 Feb

For Lacan

The question of vigilance is important. It is as if a demon plays a game with your attention [lit. “watchfulness.”] Lacan To identify a “subject” is not only difficult, but…
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at 2:19 pm By Joseph Weissman 3 Replies
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
10 Dec

Beyond Desire: Remarks on Nietzsche and Becoming

    Topos (biocosm)     In the beginning all things were mixed together; then came understanding and created order. Anaxagoras [1] What had to be accomplished in that chaotic…
Monday, December 10, 2007 at 11:23 pm By Joseph Weissman 5 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 Nov

Translation from Gilles Deleuze’s Ontology: Véronique Bergen on the Syntheses of the Unconscious in Difference and Repetition

The following is an excerpt on the syntheses of the unconscious in Difference and Repetition from Véronique Bergen’s L’Ontologie de Gilles Deleuze, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2001. 325-327. Original translation by Taylor…
Monday, November 5, 2007 at 6:40 am By Taylor Adkins 2 Replies
18 Oct

The Genealogy of the Unconscious: Evolution, Awareness, Creativity

“What does man actually know about himself? Is he, indeed, ever able to perceive himself completely, as if laid out in a lighted display case? Does nature not conceal most…
Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 11:20 am By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
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
08 Oct

Reconstructing Reality

Just as total war renders ethics derisory, consumer society annihiliates the horizons of authentic experience. God, the State, Father: abysses for the erasure of thought, until the only idea of…
Monday, October 8, 2007 at 9:28 am By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
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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
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
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