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Amen!

'the regime of sex, gender and sexual difference you consider universal and almost metaphysical, on which rests all psychoanalytical theory, is not an empirical reality, nor a determining symbolic order of the unconscious. It is no more than an epistemology of the living, an anatomical mapping, a political economy of the body and a collective administration of reproductive energies.'

Fragment uit Can the Monster Speak? By Preciado, Paul B.
#queer #psychoanalysis #gender

Paul Preciado, trans philosopher and author from Spain, in his talk to the psychoanalyst congress at the Ecole de la Cause Freudienne in Paris, “Can the Monster Speak?”

‘All the things that are terrible and terrifying about transsexuality and gender transitioning are not found in the process of transition itself, but in the way in which the boundaries between the sexes punish and threaten to kill anyone who dares cross them. It is not gender transitioning that is horrifying and dangerous, but the regime of sexual difference.’

Another season, another class. This time, we dive into the myth of AGI and ASI. Are the titans of tech on the verge of conjuring a magical AI god in the cloud? No, of course not. We're going to have to solve our own problems. We can't wait around for ultra-duper-genius-bot-9000 to come boss us around into an age of "infinite abundance". Still, the fact that people are selling this vision tells us something dark. We'll expose how incoherent and even dangerous the very notion of AGI is.

My class filled up fast, but BISR has lots of other classes I wish I could take. Learn about the philosophy and politics of love, the gilded age, settler colonialism, moral panics, Marx, and more! Classes start next week.
thebrooklyninstitute.com/curre

Stay sane, stay safe, everyone.

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A Lacanian analysis of addiction

From Bruce Fink’s Against Understanding, Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key:

“Addiction” is not, in and of itself, a psychoanalytic diagnosis, inasmuch as it refers to activities found across the diagnostic spectrum. Addictions may, like so many other cyclical activities, be viewed as symptomatic (i.e., compulsive) activities that aim at achieving a form of satisfaction or jouissance that they approach but never fully attain. It is, it seems, the very failure to fully reach what is sought that leads to the repetition of such activities. (Missing one’s objective is what brings on repetition, suggests Lacan, 1978.)

It occurred to me that Alan Carr’s account of addiction sits interestingly with this model, in the sense that he argues addiction involves a misidentification of enjoyment. It’s jouissance in Lacan’s terms, a pleasure-in-pain, rather than something which exists as a more straight forward form of pleasure sensation. It could perhaps, in a Lacanian register, be seen as an argument about searching for a positive core to jouissance which can never be found.

The #Yogācāra school's eightfold model of #consciousness (#vijñāna) offers a detailed Buddhist framework for understanding perception, identity, and delusion. By analyzing layers from sensory awareness to the unconscious "#storehouse" (#ĀlayaVijñāna), it provides a unique #psychoanalytic system without a permanent self (#anatta):

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How is it that after every brilliant analysis of the contemporary technological process, Jaron Lanier manages to squeeze in a half-baked hot take on how to save capitalism from itself, that anything Marxism is basically Stalinism or at least Leninism, followed by how neurobiology basically contradicts anything in psychoanalysis?