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[e_dog]

The latest edition of The Symptom an on-line mag. on Lacanian psychoanalysis and culture has just been released! See link at

www.lacan.com

writers included Slavoj Zizek and others.

[stilltrucking]

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This is all I can afford to read this week, the free preview.

March 12, 2006, Sunday
By SLAVOJ ZIZEK (NYT); Editorial Desk
Late Edition - Final, Section 4, Page 12, Column 1, 941 words
DISPLAYING FIRST 50 OF 941 WORDS -FOR centuries, we have been told that without religion we are no more than egotistic animals fighting for our share, our only morality that of a pack of wolves; only religion, it is said, can elevate us to a higher spiritual level. Today, when religion is emerging as the...

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Speaking of moral clarity.

http://www.centerformoralclarity.net/

[Arcadia]

last time I read something related with Lacan was when I was reading Winniccot. Winnicott's observation about how Lacan wrote and cited his name in some papers. An omission stuff, if I remember well.

[e_dog]

stilltruck,

that essay in the Times is just an excerpt from one of the longer essays you can get from the website www.lacan.com. click on either the essay by Zizek on Tolerant Reason or the one on A Glance into the Archives of Islam. can't remember which is which, viz. the NY Times piece. in fact, both are mighty fine reads if ya have the time.

arcadia,

was that Winnicott citing Lacan or vice versa? and what what it all about if you remember?

[Arcadia]

Lacan cited Winnicott. And he forgot an n or a t. Vice versa would be difficult, La.can's name is somehow easy to write almost for everyone. I can't give you more details because I don't have anymore that book.

[e_dog]

"This brings us back to perversion: for Lacan, a pervert is not defined by the content of what he is doing (his weird sexual practices, etc.). Perversion, at its most fundamental, resides in the formal structure of how the subject relates to truth and speech. The pervert claims direct access to some figure of the big Other (from God or history to the desire of his partner), so that, dispelling all the ambiguity of language, he is able to act directly as the instrument of the big Other's will. In this sense, both Osama bin Laden and President Bush, although politically opponents, share a pervert structure: they both act upon the presupposition that their acts are directly ordered and guided by the divine will." -- Slavoj Zizek

at
http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXVII6.htm