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25.01.2022 Frevd Bar... From their Facebook page: "FREVD is pronounced 'Freud'. The V is an upper case Roman U. We like the form of the letters." They're on Shaftesbury Avenue, London.... So they are currently updating their business hours... See more

25.01.2022 "It is precisely insofar as he speaks to you that you take his testimony into account. The question is this. What is the structure of this being that speaks to him, and that everybody agrees is fantasmatic?... It is precisely the S in the sense in which the analyst understands it, but an S with a question mark." Words: Jacques Lacan, The Psychoses, page 41 Art: Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Museum, Spain The Lacan Circle Reading Group arrived at that line of Seminar III last night. Join us as we read on every Wednesday night. It's free, on Zoom, and open to anyone with an interest. No prior knowledge is assumed. lacancircle.com.au/lacan-circle-reading-group

25.01.2022 Cover Art... The Lacanian Review Issue #9 Spring 2020... Still Life? Inside, from Jacques Lacan: During this thing called a lecture, I'll try to give you a feeling of the extent to which I don't believe in nature. Would that I could experience nature... Unfortunately, seeing that I'm an analyst, it's completely impossible for me to believe in it. Lecture delivered in 1974 Translated by Dan Collins https://lacancircle.com.au/the-lacanian-review/

25.01.2022 Cover art... Authors unknown, titles unknown, years unknown...

25.01.2022 Cover art... Sigmund Freud, Leonardo da Vinci, 1910 The full title is Leonardo da Vinci and A Memory of His Childhood.... It is Freuds psychoanalytic study of his life through his paintings. See more

24.01.2022 "The concept of the phallus and the castration complex testify above all to the problematic nature of the subjects insertion into his or her sexual identity, to an impossibility writ large over that insertion at the point where it might be taken to coincide with the genital drive." Jacqueline Rose, Feminine Sexuality, 1982 Art: Aquanell, Urban Crowds, 2020

24.01.2022 "Signifiers that reappear in the real, in their 'raw state', lack the symbolic articulations that interweave them with other signifiers to constitute a world. We could put it like this. When a signifier is regulated by metaphor and metonymy, it is 'in the symbolic'; when a signifier appears as an enigma, it is a signifier in the real." Words: Russell Grigg, Signifiers in the Real: from Schreber to the Wolf Man, PsychoanalysisLacan 2020, Things Getting Real... Art: Pablo Picasso with Le matador et femme as he painted it in 1970. He is 89 years-old. lacancircle.com.au/journal-volumes

23.01.2022 Lacan Circle of Australia Cartel Presentation Day Free and open to anyone with an interest Entirely by Zoom Saturday 17 October 1pm AEST More information on our website here... lacancircle.com.au/events/cartels Or queries to [email protected] See more

22.01.2022 "Although I have been exceptionally happy in my home, with my wife and children in particular with one daughter who to a rare extent satisfies all the expectations of a father, I nevertheless cannot reconcile myself to the wretchedness and helplessness of old age, and look forward with a kind of longing to the transition into nonexistence." Sigmund Freud to Stefan Zweig, his friend of 30 years. Tomorrow in 1939 in London Freud transitioned into nonexistence.

22.01.2022 "From the moment the subject speaks, the Other, with a big O, is there. Without this there would be no problem of psychosis." Jacques Lacan, Seminar III, The Psychoses Art: Art: Christopher Payne, Asylum, Abandoned American State Mental Hospital

22.01.2022 Sigmund Freud lived for 83 years. The first photo here is the first image we have of him. He is around 8 years old. The last image is definitely not the last we have of him: there were many taken in his extremely old age as his face became drawn as well as misshapen and discoloured by his jaw cancer. He died tomorrow in 1939.

21.01.2022 Slavoj iek on the movie Titanic: "Is Titanic really about the catastrophe of the ship hitting the ice-berg? One should be attentive to the precise moment of the catastrophe: it takes place when the two young lovers, immediately after consummating their amorous link in the sex act, return to the ships deck. ... At this moment the ship hits the ice-berg, in order to prevent what would undoubtedly have been the true catastrophe: namely the couples life in New York. One can safely guess that soon the misery of everyday life would destroy their love. The catastrophe thus occurs in order to save their love, in order to sustain the illusion that, if it were not to happen, they would have lived happily ever after." Words: Slavoj iek, The Perverts Guide to Family, Lacan.com lacan.com/zizfamily Art: Unknown but brilliant staging of an alternative true catastrophe that might have saved James Cameron many hours in the special effects studio.

21.01.2022 Cover art... Why War? Albert Einstein & Sigmund Freud 1933... In 1932, and a few months before Hitler began his reign of terror over Germany, Einstein wrote a long letter to Freud, asking: "Is it possible to control mans mental evolution so as to make him proof against the psychoses of hate and destructiveness?" Freud's very long reply includes: "There is no likelihood of our being able to suppress humanity's aggressive tendencies. In some happy corners of the earth, they say, where nature brings forth abundantly whatever man desires, there flourish races whose lives go gently by, unknowing of aggression or constraint. This I can hardly credit; I would like further details about these happy folk."

21.01.2022 Sigmund Freud died today in 1939 He was 83, terribly ill with a long, painful and slowly debilitating cancer, and had not long escaped Nazi persecution in his life-long and much-loved home of Vienna. He held the hand of his friend, colleague and personal physician and asked to be medicated out of existence.... He had composed enough beautiful prose to both win the Goethe Prize and fill 24 volumes with his collected and quite riveting psychoanalytic works. He had written 30,000 personal letters in fine flowing German longhand filled with love, grief, consolation, explanation, jealousy, pleading and despair to Martha, Wilhelm, Carl, Stefan, his brother, his sisters, his sister-in-law, mothers of young homosexual men, editors of Time and Tide, Marie Bonaparte, and Lou Andreas-Salomé. Ernest Jones would later declare his letters to be some of the great love literature of the world. He fell in and out of love more times than he wrote about, perhaps grieved about some matters more than it is ever possible to write about, but in the words he left for us we have much: He left us psychoanalysis. We have it. Sigmund Schlomo Freud Died 23rd September 1939 Vale and Love

20.01.2022 Sigmund Freud 6 May 1956 23 September 1939 The Father of Psychoanalysis

19.01.2022 The alternating in the history of tattooing between agalma and palea reveals the double face of the signifier as a real Janus. The tattoo has always been a sign of inclusion, which concerns the signifier and its symbolic inscription, and a sign of exclusion, which concerns the signifier as an indelible mark of jouissance. In a time of a decline of the Name of the Father and the great Ideals, the modern subject has to invent other practices in order to regulate his identity an...d his jouissance. The revival of the tattoo in its double function is thus not so astonishing. Luc Vander Vennet 2016

19.01.2022 During 1939, the year of Freuds death, his doctor discovered a new malignant lesion in his jaw and deemed it inaccessible and inoperable. Radiation therapy was commenced. There had been more than 30 operations over 16 years. The hearing in his right ear had been lost in the 1920s (he moved his couch from one wall to another) and a denture-like prosthesis designed to separate his oral and nasal cavities was required from the 1930s Freud still saw and listened to his patient...s; in 1939 he had four. On September 21 he held his doctors hand and said My dear Schur, you certainly remember our first talk. You promised not to forsake me when my time came. Now it's nothing but torture and makes no sense. Schur said he had not forgotten. He sighed with relief, held my hand for a moment longer, and said I thank you'. When he was again in agony, I gave him a hypodermic of two centigrams of morphine. He soon felt relief and fell into a peaceful sleep. The expression of pain and suffering was gone. I repeated this dose after about 12 hours. Freud was obviously so close to the end of his reserves that he lapsed into a coma and did not wake up again. He died at 3am on 23 September 1939. Max Schur and his wife later moved to New York where he re-established a private medical practice. They both became training analysts. Max developed a heart condition but refused to be hospitalised and died in his home in 1969. His son Peter Schur, a Harvard Medical School Professor, now has Sigmund Freuds pocket watch (shown in this and many photos).

18.01.2022 A real occurrence Dating from a very early period Looking Immobility Sexual problems... Castration His father Something terrible Sigmund Freud listing the fragments of Sergei Pankejeff's dream. Sergei Pankejeff is the Wolfman. Sergei drew a sketch of his dream for Freud during the analysis. He made this painting late in life, signed it 'Wolfmann', then died in 1979. The painting is now held by the Freud Museum London.

18.01.2022 "If at the summit of the ethical imperative something ends up being articulated in a way that is as strange or even scandalous for some people as Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, this is because it is the law of the relation of the subject to himself that he make himself his own neighbour, as far as his relationship to his desire is concerned." Words: Jacques Lacan, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis Art: Yick Cheong Building. Hong Kong. 10,000 people live in it.

17.01.2022 Lord my body Has been a good friend But I won't need it When I reach the end ... Cat Stevens Steven Demetre Georgiou is now Yusuf and 72 years old

16.01.2022 Sand art... A finalist in the Festival Internacional de Escultura em Areia (International Sand Sculpture Festival) in Portugal in 2009. This is the largest such festival in the world and has been held annually since 2003. International artists make 50 works out of 35,000 tons of sand. ... The theme was discoveries. Freud's was psychoanalysis...

16.01.2022 "If love is not an ideal of psychoanalysis, Lacan says authenticity is not either. Its a concept that is one part Germanic and one part Californian. It makes no sense to speak of any authenticity that could apply to a subject that is intrinsically divided, which is what Lacan holds a subject to be."... Words: David Ferraro, Lacan Circle of Australia, 2020 Art: Alexan Sarikamichian, Luna, 2020. lacancircle.com.au/events/the-analytic-act

16.01.2022 Art by Judy Horacek, an Australian cartoonist. That means shes a cartoonist and shes from Australia. Its true.

15.01.2022 "At the level of the unconscious the subject lies. And this lying is his way of telling the truth of the matter." Words: Jacques Lacan, Seminar VII, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis Art: Christopher Payne, Asylum (he photographs abandoned American State Mental Hospitals)

15.01.2022 "For decades, a classic joke has circulated among Lacanians to exemplify the key role of the Other's knowledge: A man who believes himself to be a grain of seed is taken to a mental institution where the doctors do their best to convince him that he is not a seed but a man. When he is cured (convinced that he is not a grain of seed but a man) and is allowed to leave the hospital, he immediately comes back trembling. ... There is a chicken outside the door and he is afraid that it will eat him. 'My dear fellow', says his doctor, 'you know very well that you are not a grain of seed but a man'. 'Of course I know that', replies the patient, 'but does the chicken know it?'" Slavoj izek How to Read Lacan 'God is Dead But He Doesn't Know It' 2006

15.01.2022 Cover art... Samuel Beckett The Unnamable 1953... Beckett, who is Irish, wrote it in French as LInnommable, then translated it into English. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969, and remains the only Nobel literature laureate to have also played first class cricket. Beckett lived in Paris during WWII where he would meet Marcel Duchamp in a Left Bank caf for regular chess games. A notorious Parisian pimp known as Prudent stabbed Beckett in the chest in 1938 and nearly killed him. James Joyce arranged his hospitalisation. The matter went to court and at a preliminary hearing Beckett asked Prudent why he did it and Prudent replied: "Je ne sais pas, Monsieur. Je mexcuse." Beckett dropped the case - he didnt like the legal system and hed found Prudent to be likeable and well-mannered...

14.01.2022 LRO 245 23/09/20 Memories of Sex By Philippe Hellebois ... https://www.thelacanianreviews.com/2784-2/

14.01.2022 "In addition to Freuds three impossible positions government, education, and psychoanalysis I would add a fourth, science. But the experts are not expert enough to know that their position is untenable." Words, Jacques Lacan, Panorama, 1974... Art, Michael Makes, Specimen 421: Annette, 2015 Mapes made Annette out of photographs, insect pins, pill capsules, specimen bags, plastic pill canisters, glass vials, magnifying glass, rose petals, cotton, human hair, acrylic nails and false eyelashes.

14.01.2022 There is no sexual relation Nincs szexulis kapcsolat Ei ole seksuaalista suhdetta Il ny a pas de rapport sexuel No hay relacin sexual... Es gibt keine sexuelle Beziehung Jacques Lacan said it in French

14.01.2022 "We are as forlorn as children lost in the woods. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours?" Franz Kafka to his school friend Oskar Pollak

14.01.2022 Cover art... Next week's edition of The New Yorker A tribute to RBG She died last week...

13.01.2022 Cover art... Tribute to Freud H.D. 1956... H.D. is an American poet; she was in analysis with Freud in Vienna in 1934. From her journal at the time: "My bat-like thought-wings would beat painfully in that sudden searchlight." From the blurb: "A remarkably tender and human portrait of the legendary Doctor in the twilight of his life. Time doubles back on itself, mingling past, present, and future in a visionary weave of dream, memory, and reflections." From Ernest Jones: "Surely the most delightful and precious appreciation of Freud's personality that is ever likely to be written. Only a fine creative artist could have written it."

12.01.2022 "Cure is an absolute bonus" Jacques Lacan, Seminar X, Anxiety

11.01.2022 Cover art... Los usos del lapso The Uses of the Lapsus (or The Applications of the Equivocation)... Los cursos psicoanalticos de Jacques-Alain Miller The Psychoanalytic Teaching of Jacques-Alain Miller

10.01.2022 Cover art... Sigmund Freud An Outline of Psychoanalysis 1940

10.01.2022 Jacques Lacan at the end of his long life: "It is up to you to be Lacanian if you wish; I am Freudian"

10.01.2022 "Sexual difference is then assigned according to whether individual subjects do or do not possess the phallus, which means not that anatomical difference IS sexual difference (the one as strictly deducible from the other), but that anatomical difference comes to FIGURE sexual difference, that is, it becomes the sole representative of what that difference is allowed to be." Jacqueline Rose, Feminine Sexuality, Jacques Lacan and the cole freudienne, 1985 Art by Carmel Jenkin

09.01.2022 Sigmund Freud 6 May 1856 23 September 1939 The Father of Psychoanalysis

09.01.2022 "Psychoanalysis cannot harmonise the fissures of erotic life any more than anything else can." David Ferraro Lacan Circle of Australia: The Analytic Act in Lacanian Psychoanalysis... Ethical Orientations in the Lacanian Field 19 September 2020, and continuing: lacancircle.com.au/events/the-analytic-act See more

08.01.2022 Printed today in England in 1939

08.01.2022 Today in Salem in 1692, a woman was hanged because she was a witch. Then the Salem witch trials were over. Sometime in 1848 the Westborough Insane Hospital (pictured) was built. Then in 2010 it was over. Westborough was demolished late last year, and the building of an Aged Care Facility is in progress.

08.01.2022 Sigmund and Martha Freud in their garden in London, sometime during 1939. He died on 23 September 1939.

07.01.2022 The joke which is equivocal "provides the model for the right analytical interpretation" says Lacan. "It is the only weapon one has against the sinthome." It is not to add another layer of meaning, it is rather a "saying that has no meaning" as a means of touching the irreducible marks of jouissance. ... Anny Lysy What Words, What Body? The End of Analysis The Lacanian Review #9 Still Life? lacancircle.com.au/the-lacanian-review/

06.01.2022 Cover art... Sigmund Freud The Wolfman and Other Cases 1918... Inside: My patient's father had the characteristic, shown by so many people in relation to their children, of indulging in 'affectionate abuse': and it is possible that during the patient's earlier years his father may more than once, as he caressed the little boy or played with him, have threatened in fun to 'gobble him up'. One of my patients told me that her two children could never get to be fond of their grandfather, because in the course of his affectionate romping with them he used to frighten them by saying he would cut open their tummies.

06.01.2022 Cover art... Slavoj iek How to Read Lacan 2006... Inside: "For Lacan, psychoanalysis at its most fundamental is not a theory and technique of treating psychic disturbances, but a theory and practice that confront individuals with the most radical dimensions of human existence. It does not show an individual the way to accommodate his or herself to the demands of social reality: instead it explains how something like 'reality' constitutes itself in the first place. It does not merely enable a human being to accept the repressed truth about him or herself; it explains how the dimension of truth emerges in human reality. In Lacan's view pathological formations like neuroses, psychoses and perversions have the dignity of fundamental philosophical attitudes towards reality." iek is easy and entertaining reading and this is a great overview of how Lacan and his words fit into our world.

05.01.2022 Today is the anniversary of Sigmund Freud's 1939 death. It is also the anniversary of three of these four sisters' deaths. Marie (Mitzi), Rosa and Pauline (Pauli) Freud were all murdered in Nazi death camps today in 1942.... Adolfine (Dolfi), on the left, died at Treblinka extermination camp six months later. They were all survived by their older sister Anna who had left Vienna for New York many years prior. She died there in 1955.

05.01.2022 The myth of unity of the personality The myth of synthesis Of superior and inferior functions Confusion about automatism... All these types of organisation of the objective field constantly reveal cracks, tears and rents, negation of the facts and misrecognition of the most immediate experience. Jacques Lacan, The Psychoses

04.01.2022 Veronique Voruz being interviewed by Florencia F.C. Shanahan on Radio Lacan, 2016 On the release of The Lacanian Review #2... "Sex All Over The Place" Audio in English, including: The question of sex and sexuality is a clinical question, many dimensions of which we are very familiar with, but also there is a profound discursive reconfiguration going on. "Sex All Over The Place" is a way of saying that people's sexuality is without a context, it is all over the place, it is omnipresent, it is everywhere... radiolacan.com/en/topic/899/3

04.01.2022 "I'm here for my parents" By Tute

04.01.2022 Cover art... Lacan on Madness Patricia Gherovici and Manya Steinkoler 2015... New ways of working with phenomena often considered impermeable to clinical intervention or discarded as meaningless. The authors intervene in current debates about normalcy and pathology, causation and prognosis, and propose effective modalities of treatment that challenge popular notions of what constitutes a cure. They offer a reassessment of the positive and creative potential of madness.

04.01.2022 Art by Judy Horacek, an Australian cartoonist. That means she's a cartoonist and she's from Australia. It's true.

03.01.2022 Sigmund Freud wrote to Thomas Mann for his 60th birthday: "I could wish you a very long and happy life, as is the custom on such occasions. But I shall refrain from doing so; the bestowal of wishes is trivial and seems to me a regression into the era when mankind believed in the magic omnipotence of thought. My most personal experience, moreover, tends to make me consider it a good thing when merciful fate puts a timely end to our span of life." Today (21 September) in 1939, Freud was two days away from his death.

01.01.2022 I have learned to control myself and now get angry on demand Art by Tute

01.01.2022 "Signifiers that reappear in the real, in their raw state, lack the symbolic articulations that interweave them with other signifiers to constitute a world. We could put it like this. When a signifier is regulated by metaphor and metonymy, it is in the symbolic; when a signifier appears as an enigma, it is a signifier in the real." Words: Russell Grigg, Signifiers in the Real: from Schreber to the Wolf Man, PsychoanalysisLacan 2020, Things Getting Real... Art: Pablo Picasso with Le matador et femme as he painted it in 1970. He is 89 years-old. lacancircle.com.au/journal-volumes

01.01.2022 Jacques Lacan to an interviewer in 1974: "First of all, lets get rid of this average Joe, who does not exist. He is a statistical fiction. ... There are individuals, and that is all. When I hear people talking about the guy on the street, studies of public opinion, mass phenomena, and so on, I think of all the patients that Ive seen on the couch in forty years of listening. None of them in any measure resembled the others. None of them had the same phobias and anxieties, the same way of talking, the same fear of not understanding."