Tag: Jacques Lacan

• The Quest for a Symbolic Father

  A paper I presented at the California Marriage and Family Therapy (CAMFT) Conference a few months ago. I have edited out some sections and all case studies for reasons of ethics and confidentiality. Neurons contain representation the way a poem contains alphabets – Freud Introduction What do Saddam Hussain, Jeffery Dahmer, Charles Manson, Adolph Hitler, Jack the Ripper and…

  Madhu Sameer, from Madhuban

  November 25, 2011

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  Carl Jung, Charles Manson, Hero, Jacques Lacan, jung, psychology, Social Sciences, Unconscious mind

• Desire as Metonymy

  “Desire is shaped like a metonymy.” I had read this several times over the years, a quote attributed to Jacques Lacan, the French psychoanalyst.  I had attempted to understand this cognitively. However, it wasn’t until earlier today that the full implications of his statement dawned on me experientially. Lacan’s is a psychology of desire. His desire…

  Madhu Sameer, from Madhuban

  May 27, 2011

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  Jacques Lacan, Metaphor, Metonymy, Name of the Father, psychology, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Žižek, Social Sciences