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Jennifer Berkshire @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I wrote about why the left has so little to say about public education (and why this is a big problem). educationwars.substack.com/p/whats-left...

educationwars.substack.com

What’s Left for Public Education?

The left has no vision for public schools - and that’s a big problem

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ein Beispiel für eine lacanianische Analyse der Politik – die „Gilets jaunes“ – findet sich bei Colette Soler, *Retour sur la fonction de parole*, Kapitel 2. Sie gilt als die führende Lehrerin für Lacans Werk.

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Media consumption occurs at the level of discourse. Discourse for Lacan includes only agents, others, product, and truth. No symptoms. Of course, symptom means many things in other discourses. For Lacan it is the source of suffering for a subject and/or the way a subject knots jouissance & semblant

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It’s easy to see how this could look like schizophrenia. (Schizophrenic are the only ones who do not participate in any discourse, as they reject the Other as a fraud. Participation in a discourse requires subscribing to the semblant.)

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

(Everything is proved now to be a semblant.) And in part to the rise in capitalism and the discourse of science. The former eliminates the S1 of meaning, leaving only subjects in a recurrent encounter with objects of jouissance. Most of which are now endlessly produced by science.

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

foreclosure. A political analysis using the work of Lacan would focus on identifying the semblant in the position of the master and the object small a/jouissance product that is being sought/extracted. The sense that we have have become lost in fictions is due in part to the fall of ideals.

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Politics per Lacan is the discourse of the master. Every discourse establishes a hierarchy, except the discourse of psychoanalysis. I agree that using terms such as psychosis and schizophrenia relative to discourse is not helpful. Simply put, where neurotics have repression, psychotics have

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It also turns a blind eye to the institutionalized, supposedly legitimate violence of the police force—without which the master would cease to be the master.” Soler, Retour sur la ‘fonction de la parole’ p 38 #Lacan #psychoanalysis

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“This confirms what I said at the outset: our era places its faith in speech—against all probability, in defiance of the facts, and in complete disregard of the violence inherent in speech itself.

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

(Ich benutze ein Übersetzungsprogramm. Entschuldigt bitte, wenn es etwas chaotisch ist. )

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wir (LGBTQ+) haben das Recht, verdammt sauer zu sein. Und Institutionen (psychiatrische Kliniken, psychoanalytische Gesellschaften) können erheblich von der Theorie abweichen. Ich muss mich näher mit Foucaults Kritik an Lacan befassen. Foucault genießt bei S. großes Ansehen.

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Denominational and multi everything else. Where that is not the case, responsible nations need to accept refugees. My point is that if nationalism ever made sense, its day is past.

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Absolutely yes to all of the above. And Jews (and everyone) have the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness wherever they live. And the right to associate and form communities based on whatever foundation wherever they live. And today, all nations must be multi-ethnic, multi-

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Lacan war weder homophob noch transfeindlich oder antifeministisch. Einige seiner Anhänger sind es jedoch.

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“ Das bedeutet, dass es für jeden Einzelnen kein vorgegebenes Geschlecht, keine vorgegebene sexuelle Orientierung und keinen vorgegebenen Partner gibt. Geschlecht wird als „Sexuation“ bezeichnet – es ist ein Prozess, kein gegebenes Merkmal.

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Lacan-orientierte Psychoanalytiker sind nicht immun gegen reaktionäre Politik, aber sie missverstehen Lacan. Lacans frühe Werke waren sehr heteronormativ. Er hat diese frühen Positionen aufgegeben. In den 70er Jahren sagte er: „Es gibt keine sexuelle Beziehung (rapport).

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

it dislodges the concept of a subject who is master of himself and assured of his own completeness and consistency—a spontaneous adherent to the topology of the sphere. Soler, Retour sur la ‘fonction de la parole’ p36 #Lacan #psychoanalysis

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

but the analytic perspective alters both its value and its position. Naturally, one must ask what it is that analytic discourse dislodges. This is a vast question that could be answered in various ways, but in short,

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Yet, in Encore, we read: "To diminish truth as it deserves, one must have entered into analytic discourse. What analytic discourse dislodges puts truth in its place but does not shake it. It is reduced yet indispensable." Thus, the formula "I, truth, speak" remains true,

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He’s really come down in the world. So sad! But how many people can say that Shakespeare wrote a play about them? (Not very flattering though.)

Photo of Edward Bolingbroke, now reduced to being a reporter for Bloomberg, manages a half-smile. Apparently, he can’t even afford a tie or jacket.

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

but one that constitutes itself "in the place of the Other." It emerges there, yet solely as a subject. Soler, Retour sur la ‘fonction de la parole’ p33 #Lacan #psychoanalysis

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

from which the sentence the subject is attempting to formulate is constituted. We have thus moved from the subject of speech to the subject of the signifier, which does not pass through the mediation of the other subject,

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Yet one must not lose sight of the fact that this subject is not the subject of the subjective—the subject of consciousness that says "I" upon arriving at the analyst's office to recount what is happening to it; rather, it is the subject supposed to the signifiers deciphered within that account,

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nico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i dont want to download an app i don't want a qr code menu i dont want to talk to an ai assistant i dont want ai summaries for my searches i dont want to optimize my workflow i dont want to jump on a call i dont want to rate anything i don't want to create an account LEAVEME ADLONEe

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes, 19C Zionism is obviously r/t Herder and European nationalism. Herzl said, we’ll have what they’re having. But the limitations (a euphemism) of that idea have been painfully demonstrated everywhere. It’s no longer viable to insist on a state to cultivate the genius of ‘a people.’

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes. It can calculate, repeat, imitate.

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

of lalangue in every use of language, from the word to the statement to discourse. I know nothing about how AI works, but I have an instinct that this is an important factor, to the extent that understanding how human language works is required.

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And secondly, associating an identity to that image that is the identity of the emerging subject. (The dissolution of these identifications can be seen in certain psychotic disorders.) In any event, I am arguing for an appreciation of the critical importance

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Lacan’s work evolved. Without disputing your comment, I will add that in the final version of the mirror stage, it’s clear that the symbolic is already engaged at the same time. It is what allows a double identification to take place with the mirror image. On the one hand, recognizing the image

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“To unpack this: it means there is no reality perceived by our senses other than a phantasmatic one; here, the notion of universality takes a hit” Colette Soler Of course facts exist. But a domain of social objectivity is another question.

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And therefore evolution of language, clearly puts a limit to how much AI can replicate human thought. The obstacle is not ‘communicative intention.’ It’s the necessity of having a body ‘impregnated by language,’ as Lacan said. (Quoting Geneva Lecture on the Symptom from memory.)

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What’s not accounted for, even among AI critics who discuss Lacan’s work, is his later views. Lalangue and the associated jouissance-use of language. The radical singularity of every unconscious-as-real jouissance (not structured like a languge) as the source of all linguistic invention,

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In the US the discourse on education is completely psychotic. Eg, we talk a lot about what level of education and what topics people “should”’pursue and never mention employers. Why require a bachelors for everything? In my work I removed the requirement where appropriate. Lots of great candidates!

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes. There is no thought without language. Thought is the movement of language.

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

reducing the Freudian practice (which entails interpreting the unconscious) to the array of practices that simply posit that talking does one good.” Colette Soler Retour sur la “fonction de la parole” p 17 #Lacan #psychoanalysis

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

that this theoretical leap has had an impact on contemporary discourse. Not that it originated the myriad speech-based practices of our era, but perhaps—contrary to his intent—it contributed to a regrettable conflation:

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“While the Freudian setup is indeed a mechanism for the exchange of speech, no one before Lacan had concluded that psychoanalysis needed to interrogate speech itself—its function and the field it presupposes, namely language. It was likely taken for granted. There is reason to suppose, moreover,

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I suppose trades people shouldn’t be allowed to study subjects at the college level because they don’t “need” it for their chosen career. Because the value of education is measured by ROI.

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

reality, yet no less either, since it is the whole of it, save for the five senses.” To unpack this: it means there is no reality perceived by our senses other than a phantasmatic one; here, the notion of universality takes a hit..” Colette Soler, Clinic of Reality, p 113 #Lacan #psychoanalysis

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“L'étourdit" evokes that which compensates for the non-inscription of the relation; a necessary compensation if there are to be, and we observe that there are, effective bonds between beings and bodies. Lacan writes that this compensation, I quote, “is no more than the fantasy that sustains our

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Unconscious thoughts, representations, the dream is a rebus, condensation and displacement of representations etc. Lacan simply updated the thesis with linguistics. And Lacan didn’t end there of course. But the surprise it created was due to a complete misreading of Freud.

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Many seem to believe that ‘the unconscious is structured like a language’ is Lacan’s insight. In fact, the thesis is entirely Freudian. Freud’s first 3 major works are dedicated to this idea. Interpretation of Dreams, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just checking to ensure we’re all aware that this debate is as old as the novel itself. Okay, good.

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

30% of voters are hard-core racist. They will always support him.

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

namely, academic scientists.” Colette Soler, Clinic of Reality, pp 65-66 #Lacan #psychoanalysis

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

because he already had one in play: that of the immanence of the divine object. That notion eventually ran its course, yet without it, the foundational hypothesis of quantum science, for instance, relies on—and is thus at the mercy of—what I call the "consent of those authorized in this field,"…

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I am a cliché @perseverus-getout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“As for science itself as a collective discipline, it is at the level of its hypotheses or paradigms that its supposed neutrality shatters. Empirical successes are not proof of the validity of its hypotheses or paradigms. And Newton could say, "I frame no hypotheses,"…

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