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Article 38

“males can make the error of believing they are whole simply because the signifier male means that which opposes itself to female. The idea of such a symmetrical opposition is founded on the mistaken...

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Article 37

“he fetishizes desire itself. In this way he forestalls the anxiety that accompanies the threat of loss” – Ellie Ragland

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Article 35

“The real ex-sists …at a point where subjects are objects — the gaze, the voice, the void, and so on, not masters of the word.” – The ego is itself an object a. In this capacity [the ego] bolsters the...

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Article 34

“Anorexia may ensue any time a hysteric loses the love context that stabilizes her. …In refusing food, she gains the pleasure of being one with nothing.” – Ellie Ragland

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Article 33

“Only when repression is lifted does an object a fall out of a fantasy, allowing one to confront unconscious desire in terms of the lethal jouissance that blocks it.” – ellie ragland

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Article 32

“jouissance brings satisfaction ..insofar as the other provides the “correct” response to the demand that constitutes the drive as a demand for jouissance” – The sexual division in speaking beings is...

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Article 31

“The satisfaction implicit in identifying with dissatisfaction bespeaks a closed circuit of jouissance. Lacan found such death pleasure to be typical of the master discourse” – the master discourse,...

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Article 30

“Interference from the mother means there is not enough distance from a compelling jouissance to establish one’s own identifications.” – Ellie Ragland

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Article 29

“the aim of the drive is not the Freudian constancy of entropy as a tensionless state, but the consistency of jouissance” – Ellie Ragland

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Article 28

“…. The neurotic equates the lack of knowledge about the Other’s desire with the primordial lack that begets desire in the first place.” – Such a union creates an identification with the imaginary...

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Article 27

“..the superego ..appears when judgments confer the blow of a negative gaze on ideals: shunning, exclusion, and disgust.” – One recognizes the real ..in what does not return as pleasure, but in the...

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Article 26

“since jouissance is tethered to the Other ..individuals find themselves inexplicably burdened by death weights or inertias that do not really correspond to realities “outside.”” – ellie ragland –...

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Article 25

“No one wants to be cured of his or her symptoms because the death drive—translated here as jouissance—lies beyond the pleasure principle” – ellie ragland

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Article 24

“the deadlier side of jouissance appears in haunting gazes and voices. – ELLIE RAGLAND” – jouissance is tethered to the Other—not the other, as we think.. ..Individuals find themselves ..burdened by...

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Article 23

“No one wants to be cured of ..symptoms because the death drive—translated here as jouissance—lies ..on the side of the real impasses that organize our lives” – Ellie Ragland

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Article 22

“We are used to the real.. ..The real exsists as a kind of “extimate” object at a point where subjects are objects—the gaze, the voice, the void, and so on, not masters of the word.” – THE PLEASURES OF...

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Article 21

“the symptom defines itself as a symptom precisely by refusing to recognize its attachment to jouissance.” – ELLIE-RAGLAND-Essays-on-the-Pleasures-of-Death-From-Freud-to-Lacan

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Article 20

“In anorexia, ..the ..demand for love turns into a drive to merge with nothingness itself, thus replicating the void feeling” – ELLIE-RAGLAND-Essays-on-the-Pleasures-of-Death-From-Freud-to-Lacan

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Article 19

“jouissance is already a fixed libidinality that fills in the void with semblances of being, (objet a)” – jouissance ..provides a sense of consistency which is actually correlated with the death drive....

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Article 18

“the psychotic ..lacks the distance from jouissance that would enable him or her to desire at all” – ELLIE RAGLAND

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Article 17

“The quest for jouissance—for absolute consistency, Oneness, or satisfaction—sets language on the paradoxical path of seeking to fulfill desire” – ELLIE RAGLAND

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Article 16

we are fixated as “selves” or egos in words and identifications that represent us as subjects of desire (lack) or objects of the real (loss), we wear our masks comfortably, happily repressing the...

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Article 15

“The object a is defined here as condensed or materialized jouissance with which the subject identifies itself as an object that causes its own desire.” – If one thinks of the petit a as a...

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Article 14

“Objet a is an excess or surplus in jouissance that bears witness to a tie between the world and the body at the level of the already constituted meaning one might call the symptom” – the object a is...

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Article 13

“The real infers constant loss, which, in turn, produces anxiety, people use language to seek the emotional comfort of closing out the real” – ELLIE RAGLAND

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Article 12

“the sinthome as a writing of the real that traces the particular path of the dialectic between desire and jouissance in a given life.” – ELLIE RAGLAND

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Article 11

“Alexandre Leupin describes this surplus in language or in the body as the quality of meaning Lacan called the jouissance” – ELLIE RAGLAND

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Article 10

“we ..keep ourselves from realizing the price we pay for clinging to the familiarity of jouissance that blocks any exit from pain and discontent.” – ELLIE RAGLAND

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Article 9

“Our hopes for totality, for ongoing pleasure, for final harmonies, are inane dreams that make us suffer and keep us from making any change at all.” – ELLIE RAGLAND

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Article 8

“psychosis is the failure of an inscription for lack—of being all one sex—neurosis denying the difference; ..perversion repudiating it” – ELLIE RAGLAND

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Article 7

“The neurotic identifies with the Other’s desire via the jouissance of meaning—taking “pleasure” in deciphering his own unconscious” – For neurotic subjects, splits in the Other are filled up with...

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Article 6

“In anorexia ..the demand for love turns into a drive to merge with nothingness itself, thus replicating the void feeling” – ELLIE RAGLAND http://ift.tt/1IkeoLr

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Article 5

“Dora’s joy came from denying what was only too obvious in her parent’s discourse: that she was a rejected object.” – The ..interplay between Dora’s ideal ego and her superego made her feel guilty.....

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Article 4

“as long as the analyst literally takes a patient’s transference–positive or negative–to be aimed at her and believe she or he is supposed to respond to the hysteric’s demand for love, the...

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Article 3

“Frau K. had usurped Dora’s place as her father’s own caretaker, I suggest that Dora’s ideal ego fantasy was shattered. She was utterly demoted. Her ideal ego position could no longer be that of a...

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Article 2

“Woman knows that man is caught in the finite Φ… limitations of desire, while she knows that desire concerns something more, the void in being” – ELLIE RAGLAND http://ift.tt/1QyUoEe

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“Sex concerns the impossible search for the infinite. ..So, woman is not only man’s symptom of the ..impossibilities of desire, but of his confusion” – ELLIE RAGLAND http://ift.tt/1KiITkF

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“Sex concerns the impossible search for the infinite. ..Call this the human search.. ..So, woman is not only man’s symptom of the finite impossibilities of desire, but of his confusion” – ELLIE RAGLAND...

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