Basically from Seminar XX and Imagine There’s No Woman:

"The moral law, looked at more closely, is simply desire in its pure state" - Lacan, Seminar XI, p.275 ( Read more... )

I have been working on this theory  concerning why most people form relationships with others. I find that instead of searching for a partner based on merit, earned trust, or mutual understanding, people seem to fit into these other categories, which I have defined below. Any insight or further ideas on why people get together is welcomed; this ( Read more... )

(As a regular lurker, and occasional commenter, I've noticed that the topic of Plato and/or Platonic philosophy comes up on occasion -- most recently in the form of a post by writingstudent. Given that, I thought it might be interesting to broaden the subject of discussion by posting an interpretation of a book written by a self-described, and recently-deceased ( Read more... )

As Lessing and Schiller taught, the goal of a human's education is to establish the most delicate balance and harmony between all of his faculties -- between sense and intellect, between duty and inclination -- to transform animal sexuality into human sexuality, and to allow instinct to give way to choice with regard to what is true, good, and ( Read more... )