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Leopard Dreams
In his essay on Plato from The Logic of Sense (253-66), Deleuze invites us to think identity and sameness not as the logical ground from which difference ensues but as “the manifest content” of...
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Breaking Down
In the context of a connective synthesis, a machine or a chain of associations works only when it breaks down. It works by breaking down, continually, by having the flow it produces interrupted...
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Falling Back Onto
Before preceding any further, another note on the translation is in order. Most critical and most misleading in the English rendering is the translation of “se rabattre sur” as “to fall...
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Oedipus — Take Two
Look out for the noble and upright king who, because of his pierced ankles, has to hobble his way across the stage. Make sure not to miss our hero’s hyperboles for everything about his words...
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Oedipus — A Directorial Note
Aristotle argued that tragedy’s audience is treated to an experience of emotional stimulation rather than historical education. While in many respects unavoidably imitative, tragedy’s highest...
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Of Revisions and Caricatures
Freud argued in Totem and Taboo that the efects of secondary revision are not exclusive to the dream-work; they are in fact evidenced in any realm of thought that requires unity and...
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Work
Freud grounded psychoanalysis in terms of a collaborative uncovering of the unconscious as dynamic and over-determined. That such uncovering occurs in a fraction of the time “psychoanalysis”...
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Work – 3
it seems to me that the roots of the psychoanalytic distinction between work and play can be traced back to Freud’s two principles of mental functioning (reality and pleasure) that regulate the...
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Intelligibility – Ownership
If the found object must begin as animated and vital and only later can it move on to become irrelevant and inanimate, an object properly speaking and, hence, potentially a possession, then property...
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From Eruption to Frontier to Aevum…
Be it in terms of the settling into the depressive position, the resolution of the Oedipus complex, the attainment of ego integration, the cure, or what not, when psychoanalysis prescribes a so-called...
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