#psychoanalytic

Zooble saying this to Jax is very significant. We know that from Jax's nihilism, he wants everyone to "stick to their archetypes," for example, to drive Gangle away from ever being happy, he torments her and literally breaks the mask that portrays her as happy(hence, "the sad one"). Another example is how he always makes sure he's being "funny" no matter the circumstance. Zooble is literally telling him the abillity to change (them not just being their archetypes) is OKAY. They don't need to commit to a personality. HE doesn't need to commit to his funny persona. He can change, HE doesn't need to commit to one thing all the time. Nobody does.

Now the child holds the wisdom. There are no demons to tempt her, only friends who play. An angel holds her sigil, his wings black as the sun. A city burns in the distance.

Britney Spears, The Woman in Me, followed by the chapter on Hysterical (Histrionic) Psychologies in Nancy McWilliams's classic Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process, 2nd edition.

Two wildly different takes on consent, both life-changing: Betty Martin will teach you how to feel consent in your body with The Art of Receiving and Giving: The Wheel of Consent and Avgi Saketopoulou will fuck up all that you didn't want to know about consent with Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia.

I will be quote-blogging these for my own pleasure, edification and future reference, and maybe yours as well!

One of Lacan’s most oft-repeated formulas is: ‘man’s desire is the desire of the Other’. (Seminar 11). This can be understood in many complementary ways, of which the following are the most important.

1. Desire is essentially ‘desire of the Other’s desire’, which means both desire to be the object of another’s desire, and desire for recognition by another. Lacan takes this idea from Hegel, via Kojève, who states:

Desire is human only if the one desires, not the body, but the Desire of the other...that is to say, if he wants to be ‘desired’ or ‘loved’, or, rather, ‘recognised’ in his human value.... In other words, all human, anthropogenetic Desire...is, finally, a function of the desire for ‘recognition’.

Kojève, 1947:6)

Kojève goes on to argue (still following Hegel) that in order to achieve the desired recognition, the subject must risk his own life in a struggle for pure prestige. That desire is essentially desire to be the object of another’s desire is clearly illustrated in the first ‘time’ of the Oedipus complex, when the subject desires to be the phallus for the mother.

S. Maldaikis

My uncle is going places with this art. even tho he doesn’t use tumblr to share it , i’ll be his echo