>Lacan was first and foremost a clinician, and clinical concerns permeate everything he wrote and did. Even when Lacan reads Plato, Aquinas, Hegel, or Kierkegaard, it is always to elucidate a precise clinical problem. This very all-pervasiveness of clinical concerns is what allows us to exclude them: precisely because clinic is everywhere, one can erase it and limit oneself to its effects, to the way it colors everything that appears non-clinical – this is the true test of its central place.
How does it make you feel that all of philosophy has a psychoanalytic reference?
>>8826748
look at freud's essays on moses, on the three caskets—look at totem and taboo, beyond the pleasure principle. freud is dealing with philosophical questions, and indeed with the death drive approaches well night metaphysical heights of abstraction. the inference to draw here is not so much that philosophy is a prelude to psychoanalysis, but rather that psychoanalysis constituted itself as a formalization of philosophy. that all philosophy can be psychoanalytically referenced is therefore no surprise.
>>8826770
this seems reasonable
>>8826748
>Lacan was first and foremost a clinician
have some connection to reality for Christ's sake
Is writing a matter of talent or practice?
>>8826708
Both.
>>8826711
/thread
>>8826711
I think it's talent.
Favoutite words thread, pleasant to the ear edition
>morsel
>taciturn
>fastidious
>salient
Those are shitty words, they sound like words you would find mixed with all the shit and crud underneath your fridge
Try some of these instead
>Austere
>Silver
>Undulating
>Quarantine
>Valiant
Propinquity
>>8826685
Literally nothing good about silver
>>8826660
I'll always love "Favoutite". makes me spine tingle.
Fantasy
>Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/qkz73sR.jpg
>General:
>https://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg
>Flowchart:
>https://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg
>Beginner's Guide to Fantasy:
>https://i.imgur.com/fOGNfWK.jpg
Science Fiction
>Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/IBs9KE8.jpg
>General:
>https://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg
>NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
>https://i.imgur.com/IJxTQBL.jpg
Previous Thread: >>8819373
What books are you waiting for this/next year to come out?
>>8826543
Off the top of my head
Unholy Consult
New powder mage series
New butcher book
Reminder that BRANDON SANDERSON IS SHIT
What are some good sci fi novels that make you go "that's so deep" like pic related?
>>8826479
gene wolfe. especially when he's banging bitches.
>>8826479
Blindsight but its kinda memey
Apart from Confessions of a mask and Forbidden colours what are some other homocore from Mishima?
there's definitely some homolust going on in The Sailor... and Sea of Fertility tetralogy. it's just not the main focus like in Confessions and FC.
apparently Kyoko's House also has homosexual themes at the forefront but it hasn't been translated. supposedly the US publishers of Mishima's work didn't want to get him tagged strictly as an LGBT author after Confessions and FC so they strayed away from similar stuff.
>>8826503
>The good mishima is never translated
everytime
Was the homosexuality just an act to make his far right views more palatable?
? i heard this before by a PoC...
is it true
Hahaha epic xd
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>>8826393
Yep, Tolstoy is always mediocre when compared to the great work of literature known as "shit smeared wall" vol.1&2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfxlgHBaxEU
I saw this on /tv/.
He's crying over a vacuous medium; who gives a fuck? The medium's shit, and still it left him behind. How pathetic.
Hayao Miyazaki should either go back to making oscar bait dumb dumb style-over-substance kids movies, or commit suicide.
>>8826380
>loses faith in humanity from a tech demo
is there any diference between an audiobook and reading a book?
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/08/listening-to-a-book-instead-of-reading-isnt-cheating.html
One will make you go blind faster the other deaf.
is there a difference between watching an apple and eating an apple?
It's settled. /lit/'s resident philosopher Nick Land has conclusively endorsed the comic genius of filmmaker, writer, bibliophile and Carnegie Mellon alumnus Sam Hyde
Sam Hyde is now officially and undeniably /lit/.
ITT: post your thoughts on Hyde's lectures and writings
>>8826353
>an indisputable (if edgy) comic genius
I cut myself, right here, reading this
>>8826353
I have read one full paragraph of Nick Land's writing in my life and that was more than enough for me
I honestly think Americans are the most stupid people on earth
People at burning man ride giant snakes
wow, what a useless thread
>>8826320
Deity doubles residual antagonists
>>8826326
especially now youre here
Will I be able to understand everything here if I read it in order?
>>8826250
How are you going to read that?
>>8826250
>Feminism and Queer theory
Bob Dylan just won the Nobel Prize for literature. How does this make you feel?
« Les prix portent malheur. Prix académiques, prix de vertu, décorations, toutes ces inventions du diable encouragent l’hypocrisie et glacent les élans spontanés d’un cœur libre. Quand je vois un homme demander la croix, il me semble que je l’entends dire au souverain : J’ai fait mon devoir, c’est vrai ; mais si vous ne le dites pas à tout le monde, je jure de ne pas recommencer.
» Qui empêche deux coquins de s’associer pour gagner le prix Montyon ? L’un simulera la misère, l’autre la charité. Il y a dans un prix officiel quelque chose qui blesse l’homme et l’humanité, et offusque la pudeur de la vertu. Pour mon compte, je ne voudrais pas faire mon ami d’un homme qui aurait eu un prix de vertu : je craindrais de trouver en lui un tyran implacable. »
>>8826213
The only decent author in the history of the Nobel prize was Hemingway. It's really nothing to be taken seriously.
also slowpoke.jpg 0.5/8 made me reply but sage.
So, how do I get over this feeling that all thoughts in my head, all everything that I experience is just the playing out of biological mechanisms? I feel like everything I feel, every memory I have, everything comes down to biology and this is an unshakeable, irrefutable world view to me. I just feel that if I feel happy, it's just because my biology permits it, if I do something memorable, it's only my particles moving around some other particles which would have otherwise moved some other way; inconsequential to anything in the big picture, really. I realize too that everything you feel, you could alternatively feel the same way if some arbitrary circumstance permitted it. Wouldn't that mean there were some way to feel that my life was fulfilled, without the confirmation of arbitrary circumstances?
>>8826128
>>8826128
Try this, anon.
>>8826140
I added this to my reading list. I am also interested in Sam Harris's book "waking up".
Are there any viable ways that one can make some side cash via writing?
>>8826122
Yeah. If you can get a job writing stuff.
>>8826122
Niche fetish erotica for kindle.
>>8826122
Write furry smut.