My Name Is My Name
@NegateNegation
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Only one man ever understood me, and even he didn’t understand me
Joined November 2021
I'm delighted to inform you all that I've now completed the system of German Idealism
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"Truth begins to be established only once language exists." —Jacques Lacan
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"It is because language exists that truth exists, as everyone can come to see." —Jacques Lacan
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Christoph Waltz explaining Hegelian dialectics in a food YouTube show (in the context of ceviche) was not in my expectations today, but I’m all in for it
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“You should study philosophy, even if you had no more money than it takes to buy a lamp and oil, and no more time than from midnight to the cockcrow.” Friedrich Hölderlin, Letter to his half-brother Karl Gok, June 1795
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This is my son, Blood on the Leaves
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"It is because language exists that truth exists, as everyone can come to see." —Jacques Lacan
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'In language man dwells'...even when it's extracted from Heidegger's text, it speaks for itself. It means that language was there before man, and that is obvious. Not only is man born into language in precisely the way he is born into the world; he is born through language —Lacan
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"The orgin of my teaching is very simple. It has always been there because time was born at the same time as what we are talking about. My teaching is in fact quite simply language, and absolutely nothing else." —Jacques Lacan
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"Sexuality is precisely the domain, if I can put it that way, where no one knows what to do about what is true." —Jacques Lacan
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"[E]veryone thinks they know what psychoanalysis is, apart from psychoanalysts, and that really is worrying. They are the only ones not to know." —Jacques Lacan
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"The psycho-analyst knows that he is working with highly explosive forces and that he needs to proceed with as much caution and conscientiousness as a chemist. But when have chemists ever been forbidden, because of the danger, from handling explosive substances" —Sigmund Freud
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"Every beginner in psycho-analysis probably feels alarmed at first at the difficulties in store for him when he comes to interpret the patient's associations and to deal with the reproduction of the repressed." —Sigmund Freud
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"Shit." "Shit?" "Shit." "Shit." "Shit, shit, shit, shit."
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"Wonder is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this." —Plato (Art: S. H. Raza)
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ROFL Jacques
I roll on the floor laughing when I read Saint Thomas Aquinas.
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Doing a Parmenides and Heraclitus painting with some surprises
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"From the repetitive reactions which are exhibited in the transference we are led along the familiar paths to the awakening of the memories, which appear without difficulty, as it were, after the resistance has been overcome." —Freud
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"We have only made it clear to ourselves that the patient's state of being ill cannot cease with the beginning of his analysis, and that we must treat his illness, not as an event of the past, but as a present-day force." —Freud
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"The patient brings out of the armoury of the past the weapons with which he defends himself against the progress of the treatment — weapons which we must wrest from him one by one." —Freud
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"As long as the patient is in the treatment he cannot escape from this compulsion to repeat; and in the end we understand that this is his way of remembering." —Sigmund Freud
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