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‘Kant with Sade’: The Law with DesireIn June of 1964, Lacan gathered together a group of close associates and announced, via tape recording, the founding of the Ecole freudienne de Paris; in which such thinkers as Michel de Certeau, Felix Guattari, and Luce Irigaray would later play a part. In a statement that shortly followed the inauguration… [MORE] 
{Clip} Ian Bremmer on the Daily ShowI really liked the first half of the clip because I think it lays an essential point of Zizek's political theory which states that late capitalism is NOT in fact the final stage of capitalism. Late capitalism or multinational corporation as the peak of capitalist productivity was a popular theory in Marxist circles… [MORE] 
Outline for a Work on Psychology and Psychoanalytic HistoryI haven't had many chances to work lately, so I'm posting what I consider to be an unfinished study of the topographical relation(s) between capitalist production, the modern subject, and contemporary psychology. As things stand, this is the product of another mandatory Intro to Psychology assignment.… [MORE] 
Why I Hate Women (and a brief section on why I love them)Freud’s treatment of Dora began in 1900 and lasted a year; five years later he published “Fragment of Analysis in a Case of Hysteria." This case proved to be essential in Freud’s development of his concept of transference. He believed that within treatment it was essential that a hysteric transfer… [MORE] 
Peace As Ideological Function pt 1Something of incredible importance happened relatively recently; Barack Obama gave his Noble Peace Prize acceptance speech. This event desperately necessitates critical elaboration but all the analysis that I have stumbled upon completely misses the mark. It is of unequivocal importance that we don't… [MORE] 
A Brief Encounter With Ego-Psychology (And Why Such Encounters Are Necessary)As some of you may know, I am currently taking my Nursing School prerequisites, including Intro to Psychology. The following is a required paper assignment. I debated whether this had enough value to warrant posting. The reasons against posting are: 1) the indignity of even engaging with ego-psychologists.… [MORE] 
Stray Observations on “The Taking of Pelham 123″I recently saw "The Taking of Pelham 123," the Tony Scott helmed action-thriller starring Denzel Washington and John Travolta. The film is a pretty generic heist story that occasionally aspires to venture well above its station, to be a character study juxtaposing the back stories of its antagonist… [MORE] 
Beyond the Reality PrincipleThe following is a welcome essay by guest-contributor Lauren Moos. Lacan’s opens this essay by stating that upon the date of his writing, a dramatic change had occurred in psychoanalysis. Whereas the first generation of psychoanalysts entered the cause due to “the ethical seduction of devotion… [MORE] 
Schematics: The Courage of Reading Today (Badiou and the Communist Hypothesis)This concise outline given to us by Badiou needs little commentary. I will only interrupt with a few notes. It's thrust has no moralism. Only an ethics, and a question that is put to you as to your fidelity to the truth and to your relation to the history of the politics of emancipation. These [...]… [MORE] 
Our Top Philosophical Influences: ZizekYunus: Okay. My interest lies in Zizek as popularizer of Jacques Lacan. Brendan: This is a sort of "marginal" way of putting it that I haven't heard you express before. Yunus: I go through phases of really diggin' his work and then thinking he's a sophist. I think speaking about him right after Foucault… [MORE] 
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Our Ten Philosophical Influences: Immanuel Kant
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Yunus: Would you care to begin us with Kant?
Brendan: Yeah, sure. For me, everything I take from what little I know of Kant come’ from the “limit.” Or, I think we owe him this radical idea of reason [...]
Our Ten Philosophical Influences: Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Yunus: Okay so I guess I will begin with Rousseau. You know the saying the best thing a man can do is not be born, however unfortunately very few men are lucky enough to do this?
Brendan: Yeah it’s Sophocles, with the latter part made into a joke (not by Sophocles, I think).
Yunus: Yeah, [...]
Our Ten Philosophical Influences: The Prelude
A couple weeks ago we thought it would be fun if we made a shared 10 Philosophical influences list as a way to reign in 2010. Since then the format has changed a little bit. We have 5 shared influences, 2 personal influences each and then a final special entry. The conversation took place over [...]
Foucault-Badiou Transcript part 3/3
Note: This is my own translation of the interview, which itself is a translation. So its is necessarily very rough. This Transcripts corresponds to the third part of the three. For the first transcript click here and for the second click here.
Foucault: But that does not mean that the unconscious is an empty or virtual [...]
