Psych-Homer-Analysis “Can you repeat the part of the stuff where you said all about the things?” By Matt Groening

“The sinthome is the real and its repetition.” Jacques-Alain Miller Jacques-Alain Miller, Being and the One

“Take life seriously but none of the people in it.” Kurt Vonnegut to his student Gail Godwin, later the author of many novels and works of non-fiction, including most recently ‘Getting to Know Death’, 2024 Pic thanks to Letters of Note

“If I distinguish real, symbolic, and imaginary, it is indeed to demonstrate that there are real, symbolic, and imaginary truths. If there are truths about the real, it is indeed that there are truths that one does not admit to oneself.” Lacan on this day (25 Nov) in 1975

“All our experience is based on the discontent that Freud refers to as the discontents of civilisation. What is striking is that the body contributes to this discontent in a way we know very well how to animate in animals, when we animate them with our fear.” Jacques Lacan

Louise Bourgeois, Ode a L’Oubli, Ode to Forgetting Fabric book comprising 35 forgettings, made when she was 91-years-old, in 2002

“Shouldn’t you be sitting in an ear?” By @carolitajohnson

“Between the body insofar as it is imagined and what binds it - namely, the fact of speaking - man imagines himself as thinking. He thinks insofar as he speaks. Speaking has effects on his body.” Jacques Lacan, Lecture on the Body, Yale, 25 November 1975 (50 years ago today)