Si un homme qui se croit un roi est fou, un roi qui se croit un roi ne l’est pas moins.

#JacquesLacan / Écrits (1966)

L'objet du désir, au sens commun, est, ou un fantasme qui est en réalité le soutien du désir, ou un leurre.

#JacquesLacan / Le Séminaire (1973)

#NowListening #HowToDestroyAngels - The Loop Closes

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of my all-time favorite movies, and I'm no longer embarrassed to declare that publicly.

Wherever You Go, There You Are Not!

In Lacanian parlance, we call this "The Return of the Real."

#JacquesLacan

"The same dichotomy is implicit, for instance, in Pierre Bourdieu’s emphasis . . . on how the grace and artistry of the truly competent social actor is largely dependent on that actor’s not being aware of precisely what the principles that inform her actions are. These principles become conscious only when actors are jolted out of their accustomed ways of doing things by suddenly having to confront some clear alternative to it—a process Bourdieu refers to as “objectification.” One becomes self-conscious, in other words, when one does not know precisely what to do.

A similar distinction between action and self-consciousness is played out in Jacques Lacan’s notion of the “mirror phase” in children’s development. . . Infants, he writes, are unaware of the precise boundaries between themselves and the world around them. Little more than disorganized bundles of drives and motivations, they have no coherent sense of self. In part this is because they lack any single object on which to fix one. Hence Lacan’s “mirror phase,” which begins when the child first comes face to face with some external image of her own self, which serves as the imaginary totality around which a sense of that self can be constructed. Nor is this a one-time event. The ego is, for Lacan, always an imaginary construct: in everyday life and everyday experience, one remains a conflicting multiplicity of thoughts, libidinal drives, and unconscious impulses. Acting self and imaginary unity never cease to stand opposed.

Both theorists (and I could cite many others) pose action and reflection as different aspects or moments of the self, so that experience becomes a continual swinging back and forth between them. Not only is this, I think, a compelling way to look at the structure of human experience: there is a good deal of evidence that cross-culturally, it is a very common one. It is also one that almost always finds expression in metaphors of vision.”

#DavidGraeber “Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value” #JacquesLacan #PierreBourdieu

Victor Burgin: Park Edge, 1987, diptych (formica) and text panel, Courtesy John Weber Gallery, New York, illus. of hanging at John Weber Gallery, New York 1989.
More informations in: Dreher, Thomas: Victor Burgin. The Shadow of the Watchman - or: Memory-Operations.
Internet: https://dreher.netzliteratur.net/3_Konzeptkunst_Burgin_Mem.html
#victorburgin #conceptartist #conceptartists #conceptart #conceptartwork #conceptualart #conceptualartist #conceptualartists #conceptuartwork #imageandicon #imageandtext #JacquesLacan

"The same dichotomy is implicit, for instance, in Pierre Bourdieu’s emphasis . . . on how the grace and artistry of the truly competent social actor is largely dependent on that actor’s not being aware of precisely what the principles that inform her actions are. These principles become conscious only when actors are jolted out of their accustomed ways of doing things by suddenly having to confront some clear alternative to it—a process Bourdieu refers to as “objectification.” One becomes self-conscious, in other words, when one does not know precisely what to do.

A similar distinction between action and self-consciousness is played out in Jacques Lacan’s notion of the “mirror phase” in children’s development. . . Infants, he writes, are unaware of the precise boundaries between themselves and the world around them. Little more than disorganized bundles of drives and motivations, they have no coherent sense of self. In part this is because they lack any single object on which to fix one. Hence Lacan’s “mirror phase,” which begins when the child first comes face to face with some external image of her own self, which serves as the imaginary totality around which a sense of that self can be constructed. Nor is this a one-time event. The ego is, for Lacan, always an imaginary construct: in everyday life and everyday experience, one remains a conflicting multiplicity of thoughts, libidinal drives, and unconscious impulses. Acting self and imaginary unity never cease to stand opposed.

Both theorists (and I could cite many others) pose action and reflection as different aspects or moments of the self, so that experience becomes a continual swinging back and forth between them. Not only is this, I think, a compelling way to look at the structure of human experience: there is a good deal of evidence that cross-culturally, it is a very common one. It is also one that almost always finds expression in metaphors of vision.”

#DavidGraeber “Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value” #JacquesLacan #psychology #value #PierreBourdieu

"A Father (puzzle)"
Sybille Lacan (1994)

Sybille Lacan was a child of Jacques Lacan from his first marriage. In the 1950s he'd left her mother to shack up with Sylvia Bataille (who'd been Georges Bataille's wife - apparently the three of them remained friend... all very Parisian). So her memory of her father is as a child from the forgotten family.

My lover, who eye rolls my passion for Jacques Lacan, stole my copy of the book and put it on her bookshelf. It is a very affecting interrogation of the daughter's question "What is a Father".

#books #SybilleLacan #JacquesLacan #Lacan #daughter #Father #BookCover #bookstodon

Cat`s Reaction to Reflection Dubbed One Step Away From `Self Recognition` #Cats #Pets #Animals #Intelligence #cats #jacqueslacan #29maggio https://parliamodi.news/article/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubmV3c3dlZWsuY29tL2NhdC1yZWFjdGlvbi1yZWZsZWN0aW9uLW1pcnJvci1zdGVwLWF3YXktc2VsZi1yZWNvZ25pdGlvbi0xNzExMDA4

https://barrygrahamauthor.site/first-person-third-person-same-person

#jacqueslacan #writing #books #narrativevoice