Tag: psychoanalysis

  • Rp Trash Theory: The “Young-Girl” Deployment

    Premiers Matériaux pour une Th´eorie de la Jeune-Fille I just found this weird little book. It’s been referenced here and there in the literature on … Trash Theory: The “Young-Girl” Deployment —- Interesting. Books and ideas like this one always get me wondering if the author is describing the situation in which they have found…

  • Adorno on Pleasure: The Critique of Psychoanalysis

    Theodor Adorno, the Arch-curmudgeon of the Frankfurt School of Critical theory, devotes a brief but substantial section of his Minima Moralia to a … Adorno on Pleasure: The Critique of Psychoanalysis ———- A mix of critique and psychoanalysis. Interestingly enough, I finally read Walter Benjamin’s “art in the age of mechanical reproduction”. I never realized…

  • Secularism vs. Pluralism; a comment

    I had the opportunity to participate in a live podcast episode with InkleDeux for the third time. Our topic was“Secularism vs. Pluralism.”We had a … Live Podcast Episode: #3 Secularism vs. Pluralism I didn’t listen to this whole podcast. But I listen long enough to have something to comment upon. I couldn’t really listen much…

  • Not Emotional, but Rational?

    Is there a time when you are not emotional? That is, when you’re awake at least. 😄 What is that state? Is the only time you are emotional is when you are “feeling“ emotions? What are you feeling when you’re not feeling emotional? Are you then “thinking“ emotional? It’s kind of an interesting exploration into…

  • A Comment on Ontological Equivocation and the Possibility of Plurality.

    The thought of Plurality came to be right now in coming across Graham Harman’s plug for a couple new Object Oriented books. In particular, the ideas of Tristan Garcia, the “Life Intense”. Now, I have not read hardly anything of Tristan; what I have read sort of left me pondering. Now, I just read the summary…

  • Philosophy and Racism.

    The other day, I commented on a post over at Larval Subjects. Someone replied to my last comment: Racism is socially constructed. Just like gender. They are just signifiers without a signified. Now how do you think you can explain and convince someone who doesn’t even know this kind of thinking exists? This is a…

  • Reality, Naivety and Addiction in 3 parts. PART 1.

    A Comment Upon Zizek’s Recent Talk in Spain, June 2017. Reality, Naivety and Addiction. *   I know that everyone likes to have an opinion, and they also like for everyone else to have an opinion – no; they demand that what anyone has to say is an opinion. I ask: What happens when someone…

  • Zizek and the Event of the Past: Part 2.

    AMOREINOBLOG commented in part one and asked me a question, the answer to which, I think helps clarify what Im saying in the original post. So I am posting it here. Please comment.   AMORINOBLOG: “I find this post really interesting. But I need clarification, because I’d like to defend Zizek vis-a-vis the quotes you…