Pill Pod 227 - Lacan on Hysteria (exclusive)
Added 2025-10-18 03:19:16 +0000 UTCThe last constellation in the Psychoanalytic Zodiac is the Hysteric, which statistically includes most women. This marks our completion of the structures of desire.
For this one we read the Neurotic chapter in Bruce Fink - Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis
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to circle around the 226 and 227 obsessional neurosis and hysteric episode … this is literally the condrumunun and impasses of certain language sentence construction with things like “I can not help but think … that I am trapped.” this is the split where with mathematical probability where one part of oneself is over-thinking and this includes one’s body and another part of yourself is recognize the other / the outside may not be there and their may be an encounter or speed bump … like a hand off that fails to occur. Well some obsessionals do not do well with this and when this fear occurs, they try to get angry or frustrated to reclaim a sense of agency to not get lost in shock and surprise.
Matthew Theisen
2025-10-22 22:28:08 +0000 UTCone thing that helps me with processing Hysteria and Obession is remembering the old / original meaning of being sad before the rise of more fiction in the 1600s with the printing press https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=sad sad is the germanic word for satis like satisfaction. While germanic languages made the sound into a letter D, the latin and romantic languages made that sound into more of a letter T. • thus sad originally meant sæd "sated, full, having had one's fill (of food, drink, fighting, etc.), weary of," one is tired and too full, too much holding and thus one is also without and witholding. It is all about tool use. ===== And to circle around to the inside out episode from a little more than a month ago, the previous lacan episode 222 the barred subject / inside out pixar movie one. That movie is using robert plutnik theory of emotions (the wheel of emotion) with 8 emotions that are base that are simplified into 5 for story telling reasons, and those emotions blend together to get more. The purpose of sadness per plutnik is integration and re-integration. One feels isolated and thus the barred subject of inside and outside … well the subject has to mix their body with the outside (such as language) and the voice//doing things to resolve the tension. Since hysterics think from the outside first, if one can not resolve a good mixture of body and outside it becomes somatic tensions and compulsions inside the body. Since obsessive think from the inside-body first they are looking for outcomes where they can discharge the tension into action even if these are impossible follies that will not work. Tim the Toolman taylor will burn down the worksite without his work partner Al, or Tim the toolman taylor argues with his wife and goes outside for he feels lost, and thus triggers the neighbor wilson hearing the loud neighbor and getting into a therapy conversation with the obsessive Tim. Except while I invoke therapy with my voice, the metaphor of catholic confession also works for the fence is like a confessional veil that limits the accidental transference from Wilson, Tim sees the eyes but less other facial emotions and so on, he is forced to listen to Wilson and the words between words not the words that are emphasized in an imaginary ideal way.
Matthew Theisen
2025-10-19 17:50:00 +0000 UTC
