Click Here to Read: The ‘Shared Psychosis’ of Donald Trump and His Loyalists: Forensic psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee explains the outgoing president’s pathological appeal and how to wean people from it By Tanya Lewison the Scientific American website on January 11, 2021 Trump MAGA rally in Greenville. Author: Donald Trump Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Click Here to Read: Hiddensee by Annie Freud review – a painterly imagination by Fiona Sampson on the Guardian website on January 9, 2021.
Cropped image of Annie Freud speaking in public, eldest daughter of Lucien Freud. Image: https://www.flickr.com/people/43860468@N02 Public Domain via Wikipedia Commons
Click Here to Read: The Solar System may have a 9th Planet by Passant Rabie on the Inverso website on December 25, 2020, Artist’s impression of Planet Nine as an ice giant eclipsing the central Milky Way, with a star-like Sun in the distance. Neptune’s orbit is shown as a small ellipse around the Sun. The sky view and appearance are based on the conjectures of its co-proposer, Mike Brown.
Image: nagualdesign; Tom Ruen, background taken from File:ESO – Milky Way.jpg Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Jackson Pollock, Shimmering Substance, 1946
FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: Is Jouissance a Psychoanalytic Concept? Darian Leader Saturday, January 16, 2021
11:00 AM – 1:30 PM (EST)
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Advanced Lacanians are supposedly those who have a ‘clinic of the real’ or of ‘jouissance,’ but beyond the sophisticated terms we often find feeble and unhelpful conceptualizations. The label ‘jouissance’ is now used almost entirely descriptively, thus blocking further exploration of a variety of clinical issues and shutting down rather than opening up clinical and conceptual questions about the symptom, the body, repetition, and sexuality. Continue reading Is Jouissance a Psychoanalytic Concept? with Darian Leader at Après-Coup
