5x7in acrylic on paper, 2025
Ooh the finger! c. 2009 pencil on paper approx. 8x5in
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X-Mas Monster #15_c. 2014_2.5in x 3.5in_gouache on bristol #artstr #art #painting #drawing #ACEO
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‘Identity Games I’, 2007, oil on canvas
Yeah the developmental model of linguistics. Key Concepts in Lacan's Theory:
Mirror Stage:
This is a crucial moment in a child's development where they first recognize their reflection in a mirror. This recognition leads to a sense of wholeness and unity, but also to a sense of lack and desire for a complete self that is never fully attainable.
Symbolic Order:
Lacan believed that language, culture, and social structures form the symbolic order, which shapes an individual's understanding of themselves and the world.
The Unconscious as Language:
Lacan famously stated that the unconscious is "structured like a language." This means that unconscious processes, like dreams and slips of the tongue, can be understood as expressions of language's structure and logic.
Signifier and Signified:
Lacan modified the linguistic theory of Saussure, emphasizing the primacy of the signifier (the word) over the signified (the concept). He argued that the signifier represents the subject for another signifier.
Oedipus Complex:
Lacan's interpretation of the Oedipus complex highlights the role of language and the law of the father in shaping a child's identity and entry into the symbolic order.
How Language Shapes Development:
Formation of Identity:
Through language, individuals are incorporated into the symbolic order, and their identities are shaped by the available signifiers and social structures.
Desire and Lack:
The mirror stage and the symbolic order create a sense of lack and desire that is channeled through language.
Alienation:
Lacan believed that language can also lead to alienation, as individuals are represented by signifiers that can never fully capture their subjective experience.
The hand that extends toward the fruit, the rose, or the log that suddenly bursts into flames – its gesture of reaching, drawing close, or stirring up is closely related to the ripening of the fruit, the beauty of the flower, and the blazing of the log. If, in the movement of reaching, drawing, or stirring, the hand goes far enough toward the object that another hand comes out of the fruit, flower, or log and extends toward your hand – and at that moment your hand freezes in the closed plenitude of the fruit, in the open plenitude of the flower, or in the explosion of a log which bursts into flames – then what is produced is love.
_Jacques Lacan
But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.
_Jacques Lacan, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
Dark mode.
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Differentiation. Thinking back to Jacques Lacan’s writing on the subject.
I don’t like making divisions.
Carnivore here.
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