“Our only real pleasure is to squander our resources to no purpose, just as if a wound were bleeding away inside us; we always want to be sure of the uselessness or the ruinousness of our extravagance.” ― Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality

“The words most charged with philosophy are not necessarily those that contain what they say, but rather those that most energetically open upon Being, because they more closely convey the life of the whole and make our habitual evidences vibrate until they disjoin.” ― Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The modern subject is subjected to the social bond of the capitalist discourse. His structure has not changed, but his relationships to language and to jouissance have been modified. The subject invents solutions in order to construct his subjectivity and bear his existence

The symptom as a bodily event is the point of exception to the established form of social bond and is connected to the jouissance of the body. The modern subject is subjected to the social bond of the capitalist discourse. His structure has not changed, but his relationships to language and to jouissance have been modified. The subject invents solutions in order to construct his subjectivity and bear his existence, but also to object to the Other or signify his annulment as it is dictated by the capitalist’s discourse. What is the place of psychoanalysis in these conditions of subjectivisation?

Lissy Canellopoulos- The bodily event, jouissance and the (post)modern subject. Recherches en psychanalyse, L'Esprit du Temps. 2010/2.

Christopher Paquette - Collage 01, 2012

“But the world is sleeping in ignorance and error, sir, and we must be crowing cocks, and singing larks, and a raising sun to awake her.”

Emily Dickinson (February 1850)

“We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.” ― Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception

“The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.”

“Freedom and Government” - Bertrand Russell

E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born, tr. Richard Howard

-Vicious circle-

"The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it."

Daniel Dennett

Elephant Man 1980

David Lynch