Is Jacques Lacan worth trying to understand? I feel like my "breakthroughs" while reading him are not what he means to convey at all.
No one understands Lacan. He's not a real thing.
http://www.richardwebster.net/thecultoflacan.html
He plagiarised his only idea. The only thing you'll get out of Lacan is forcing yourself to scour your eyeballs with his worthless Ecrits, edited by his faggot High Priest who won't let anyone know the spooky secrets of how he anoints the original source texts in the Sanctum Sanctorum, until finally it clicks, consciously or unconsciously, that there is just a short list of factoids you're supposed to know about Lacan if you want to be a "Lacanian."
>read Diacritics
>occasionally someone will mention Lacan
>it's always some non sequitur island in the text like "Lacan's central idea is that man is a mirror of himself." just so the author can show he is influenced by Lacan or something
>has no bearing on the rest of the article
>actual hardcore "real" Lacanian shit is relegated to journals on par with FRINGE ONCOLOGY JOURNAL ISSUE CXIV: "DO OJIBWE FART CHAMBERS CURE SECOND STAGE LYMPHOMA? - ANNUAL HOLISTIC ONCOLOGY SYMPOSIUM ISSUE"
>>7475872
That's pretty much how it goes, that's the general feeling you'll get from such writers, but especially from Lacan. Just try to picture what he is describing on a theatrical scene in the unconscious and try to make the best of it.
It helps if you go along with him even if you might disagree on some points, even fundamental points. The unconscious as a theater that I mentioned is such a point, even though it has itself been contested (by Deleuze & Guattari for example).
Even if you end up disagreeing with him, you'll no doubt pick up plenty of interesting things along the way, even if just because Lacan used a ton of philosophical concepts (from Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and so on). A useful indication of how it should go is given by how Lacan opposes the "the emperor has no clothes" scene to the joke "that woman is naked underneath her clothes!". This means, basically, that our desire is defined by things that do not exist as such: Man and Woman might have empirical examples, but mere representations do not say anything about our own positioning as man or woman, regardless of our actual biological gender.
I just read a 32 page short story and added it to my Goodreads challenge, and there's not a damn thing any of you can do about it.
>>7475794
I can end you.
I'm coming OP.
>>7475794
I do this all the time. Then people question my integrity because I am close to have read 600 books this year on the challenge.
>>7475794
Thirty-two pages is a novelette.
Need depressing books. Definitely not depressed, just like them.
Finished Book of Disquiet today and am looking for more like it, it was fucking amazing. Patrician tier prose
>>7475774
what are the best ones from that list?
>>7475790
any of the Russians, all the continentals
Finally finished this tour-de-force. Took me a few months because I really got wrapped up in the culture and became absorbed with the story and the transformations.
What did /lit/ think?
shameless cash-grab
Okay, let's say you had a series of YA novels written and ready to go. How would you market it? You can't resort to using a big firm and you don't have more expendable funds than the average min. wage worker.
publish on kindle
>>7475636
>can't resort to using a big firm
why?
>>7475644
Use caps you heathen.
Who are the most bourgeois writers?
>>7475577
marxist ones
>>7475589
OH NO HE DI-ENT
>>7475577
DFW, Jonathan Franzen, the people who get pulitzers and such, appear in the New Yorker magazine and are read by middle aged liberal upper middle class cunts concerned with maintaining the appearance of sophistication
>yfw postmodernism is a philosophy made by people who struggle in 100-level calc courses so invented an ideology to sound sophisticated and smart with
>>7475574
Does this have anything to do with literature?
>OP is too stupid so he made this to feel good about himself
z/10 got me to whoa.
Postmodernism isn't a philosophy
Hello /lit/, do you know of any books that make a compelling case for traditional marriage and the importance of gender roles in modern society? I would prefer something that goes beyond "those dum leftists"
Thanks.
The Holy Bible
book of life 2bh
>>7475551
I am currently writing that book.
I argue that having children is a necessary step towards caring for a society's future.
I don't care about gender roles, though. The only people who defy them are the ones who wouldn't be very good at fulfilling them anyway, so there's absolutely no need to meditate over or enforce the concept.
COMEONECOMEALL
Post your poetry! And receive feedback!
op
is a fag
he wears
a rubber bag
and when he plays
some counter-strike
he has
lag, lag, lag
No? No more singing? Then Iwill sing of the self
Myself, so numbingly Me and yet so utterly You
its very dial-a-cliche Iknow but its all Ihave
Unreal City! Insidious and so completely You
a dim-dashing-dim sprawl of ragged carpet
velvet swish ETCETERA.ETCETERA.
my big boner
wave-stone like water wibbles
shores crash and echo
distilled semen
moonlight lifted off the waxy keyboard
cheetos doritos, pringles, fritos
How would you define postmodernism?
you know it when you see it
>>7475470
a mustard sandwich with no other filling
>>7475470
Weird for the sake of weird
It was another night with another story about a damsel in distress.
The dame in question was one Julia von Larke. Daughter of Aloysius von Larke, made his name as an owner of family business Von Larke Pharmaceuticals, military contracts for morphine during the war. Having served as one of the Kaiser’s men in the war beforehand, Uncle Sam swept him up in the thirties after his folks got killed during the rise of the NSDAP. When the Pacific campaigns ended, he started dealing to private practices, keeping veteran hopheads with needles in their arms; shady, but legal all the same. He started a family, put two kids through college, and whilst he was no saint, he was no devil either, as far as the papers were concerned.
As for me? I was just another out-of-business private eye with a half-tank of gasoline and too much curiosity for his own goddamn good. I yanked the wheel and my old black pony groaned, pulling off 9th Avenue onto the tunnel road. It glared up from below, the orange-lit maw of the city. One slip of the hand and it would swallow you up whole. I’d seen it happen before. The first broad.
>>7475457
Your subject-verb agreement makes me weep.
I didn’t even know about her until she turned up a floater in the Hudson. You could see it from the newspaper. Water in her lungs, and a pair of starry doe eyes that never stopped getting excited to be seeing the Big Apple first-hand. Pretty. The innocent-looking kind of pretty. Small-town Georgia girl sweet on a big-city guy doing his nation proud over there in Korea. She told him she’d wait for him when he shipped out; life has funny ways of making you break your promises. Thanks to some friends in low places, I got hold of the pictures that the press wouldn’t publish. Including the one of the symbol carved into her back.
Which famous writer do you write like?
Post some some of your writing to this (pic related) site to see.
I put in four different texts and it said I write like a pleb
>Kurt Vonnegut
>P.G. Wodehouse
>Ray Bradbury
>Mary Shelley
From an assortment of essays:
> DFW
> Lovecraft
> Fleming
>>7475393
>look at my zany tabs
From one of my short stories:
>Gertrude Stein
What's your excuse for not writing a best-selling book by the time you were 16, /lit/?
whenever I try I get dubs and have to stop
I don't have rich parents who are also publishers. Christ I just looked him up on Wikipedia, he's 32 now. Goddamn, time flies.
>>7475222
I'm not okay with being a hack held up by delusional parents.
Which books do girls irrefutably and collectively enjoy most?
>>7475132
50 Shades of Benis
my benis desu
I Just finished picrelated and was wondering if /lit/ could provide me with some other good voyage books.
>inb4 Homer
>inb4 no actual suggestions
Thanks.
>>7475104
The rest of Jules Verne's bibliography.
>>7475126
Huh... Literally so much. Thanks anon.
>>7475104
The Argonautica
