2025 February

Angst translated as Anxiety in Sigmund Freud’s texts : 26th February 2025 : Julia Evans

INDEX Background Angst as a physical (body) tension, which cannot enter the psychic field : Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud on difference between 'ängstlich’ & ‘nervös' / James Strachey & Julia Evans on translating them ‘I will only say that I think ‘Angst’ relates to the state and disregards the object’ : Sigmund Freud ‘Angst’ as ‘Fear’ and ‘heightened tenderness for the mother’ Background -Sigmund Freud uses the term ‘angst’. Translations of Angst from the [...]

Julia Evans2025-02-27T12:22:14+00:0026/02/2025|

Tracing Jacques Lacan’s ‘Love as “giving what you do not have” ‘ : 23rd February 2025 : Julia Evans

This text was originally published in the notes to Seminar X, as well as in Seminar IV and in Guiding Remarks for a Congress on Feminine Sexuality, probably Winter 2019. The quotations from these texts are in date order - -23rd January 1957 Seminar IV -Guiding Remarks for a Congress on Feminine Sexuality : 1958 [Presented in Amsterdam, 5th September 1960] -23rd November 1960 Seminar VIII -18th January 1961 Seminar VIII -16th January 1963 Seminar [...]

Julia Evans2025-02-25T12:30:52+00:0023/02/2025|

Note on Translating Angst & L’Angoisse as Anxiety : 20th February 2025 : Julia Evans

Background This is an attempt to consolidate notes in Downloading Sigmund Freud : 1st August 2024 (from February 2012), see this site /3 Sigmund Freud (Index of Sigmund Freud’s texts) Lecture XXV The Angst [Die Angst] : 1917 : Sigmund Freud 21st November 1962 Seminar X From the Anguish (De l’angoisse) (1962-1963) : begins 14th November 1962 : Jacques Lacan, see this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19621114) Notes on 21st November 1956 Seminar IV : [...]

Julia Evans2025-03-05T14:48:07+00:0020/02/2025|

Exploring ‘Dit-Mansion’ for ‘Dimension’ in Seminar IV & L’Étourdit : 15th February 2025 : Julia Evans

Note, an example of the use of dit-mansion in L’Étourdit 14th July 1972 is given at the end This explores the possibility that Lacan was starting to use his neologism ‘dit-mansion’, transcribed as dimension, in his Seminar IV. The Agency of the Letter (9th May 1957) was given at the same time as the last sessions of Seminar IV. [See ‘Dit-Mansion’ for ‘Dimension’ in ‘Agency/Instance/ Insistence of the Letter’ : 3rd February 2025 : [...]

Julia Evans2025-07-11T16:36:46+01:0015/02/2025|

‘Dit-Mansion’ for ‘Dimension’ in ‘Agency/Instance/Insistence of the Letter’ : 3rd February 2025 : Julia Evans

In revisiting the references for Éric Laurent’s (2021) text[i], Jacques Lacan’s neologism was rediscovered - dit-mansion. [said-mansion or building] This is the quote from Éric Laurent, p49, According to Lacan, the dit-mansion of the letter implies a certain instance) a certain insistence, a certain forcing in order to be included in the signifying weft, and the significations that are deduced from it. The instance, highlighted in the text “Instance of the Letter,” [7] designates [...]

Julia Evans2025-07-11T16:38:58+01:0003/02/2025|