Talking To A Brick Wall

Author : Jacques Lacan
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 9780745682426
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Talking to Brick Walls written by Jacques Lacan and published by Polity. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I've been talking to brick walls' says Lacan, meaning: 'Neither to you, nor to the Big Other. I'm speaking by myself. And this is precisely what interests you. It's up to you to interpret me.' These brick walls are those of the chapel at Sainte-Anne hospital. Getting back in touch with his younger years as a junior doctor, Lacan amuses himself, improvises, and lets himself go. The intention is a polemical one: the best of his pupils, captivated by the idea that analysis evacuates all prior knowledge, have been raising the banner of non-knowledge, borrowed from Bataille. No, says Lacan, psychoanalysis proceeds from a supposed knowledge, that of the unconscious. One gains access to it by the path of truth (the analysand ventures to say what comes to mind, frankly and with no frills) when it comes to an end in jouissance (the analyst interprets what the analysand says in terms of libido). However, two further paths bar access to this one: ignorance (to devote oneself to it with passion is always to consolidate established knowledge), and power (the passion for might obliterates what is revealed by parapraxes). Psychoanalysis teaches the virtues of powerlessness: this, at least, respects the real. A wise lesson for an era, this era of ours, that has seen bureaucracy, arm in arm with science, dreaming of changing humankind in its deepest reaches - through propaganda, through direct manipulation of the brain, through biotechnology, and even through social engineering. Admittedly things were no better before, but tomorrow they could be far worse. Jacques-Alain Miller

Author : Deborah Mattinson
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849542694
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Talking to a Brick Wall written by Deborah Mattinson and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a foreword by Michael Portillo. Deborah Mattinson had a unique perspective on the New Labour project. As Britain's leading political pollster, she has been monitoring public opinion since the mid-1980s, and helped transform Labour into Europe's greatest election-winning machine of the modern era. Most recently as chief pollster to Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, she has been on the frontline of electoral politics, consistently representing the voter's side of the story to the politicans. Sometimes, she has encountered scepticism - a belligerent John Smith made an unappreciative witness to one of Deborah's focus groups - and she has often had to convey unwelcome results - telling a grumpy Gordon Brown he needed to spruce up his appearance cannot have been easy. With a stellar cast, including Neil Kinnock, Peter Mandelson, John Smith, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, Talking to A Brick Wall reviews the New Labour years from the voter's point of view. It tracks the ups and downs of the Blair/Brown era as seen from beyond Westminster, showing how closely political reputation correlates with voter connection. It profiles the swing voter, shows the importance of women's votes, and what gives a politician popular appeal, and maps the voters' views through the 2010 campaign and its immediate aftermath, showing how the electorate has been left out of political decision making and revealing the public's recipe for rehabilitating the Labour Party and rebuilding trust in democracy. A champion of democratic renewal through citizen engagement, Deborah Mattinson believes that we must move to new grown up partnership politics if democracy is to thrive.

Author : Trevor Maynard
Publisher : Trevor Maynard
ISBN 13 : 9780955851407
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Talking to a Brick Wall written by Trevor Maynard and published by Trevor Maynard. This book was released on 2008 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Claire Christian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781921390661
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Author : David Duchemin
Publisher : Rocky Nook, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1681982366
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Author : Thomas S. Carlson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780944372005
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Stop Talking to Brick Walls written by Thomas S. Carlson and published by . This book was released on 1989-02 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Phillips
Publisher : Kregel Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780825434792
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring Proverbs written by John Phillips and published by Kregel Academic. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John Phillips writes with enthusiasm and clarity, . . . cutting through the confusion and heretical dangers associated with Bible interpretation." —Moodymagazine

Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9781663608192
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Last Lecture written by Perfection Learning Corporation and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas S. Carlson
Publisher : Dart Pub Service
ISBN 13 : 9780944372012
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Stop Talking to Brick Walls written by Thomas S. Carlson and published by Dart Pub Service. This book was released on 1989-02-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Derek Landy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781549073199
Total Pages : 596 pages
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Download or read book Death Bringer written by Derek Landy and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Necromancers no longer need Valkyrie to be their Death Bringer, and that's a good thing. The catch? They don't need her any more because they've found their Death Bringer already, the person who will dissolve the doors between life and death. And that's a very, very bad thing ...