/lit/ - Literature

>>11911098
I think psychoanalysis is a fruitful ground for concepts which is why it has had such an influence despite all of its problems (whether Freudian or Lacanian). At least Zizek's use of psychoanalysis and of ideology seems to me rather pragmatic, like a matter of tendency more than anything. It only makes sense if ideology has a certain fluidity rather than being a clear set of norms that can be pinned down. Not sure why you're willing to reduce it to economic processes or brains though, it could for example just as well be about geopolitics.

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>>10451543
> Wtf is the solar anus

Schreber's experience of anal stimulation (which doesn't mean that he was diddling himself, only that that particular erogenous zone was activated) and his association within the imagination: anus looks like a sun therefore the tingling in the rectum must be God's solar rays. Sadly many defer to the imaginary to explain their internal sensations, which feeds Jungianism a bit too much, such as those who state that a snake is moving through them (forgot the name of the disease, Charcot or Cotard's syndrome or something similar).

For D&G the stimulation is real and material before being connected in the imagination: Schreber did not state that he had tits because of identification with the mother but rather because both men and women have intensive strips (erogenous zones) in that area and his got activated.

> Only Lacanian kids get this joke