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So, what are you reading?
I'm still reading Sargant's Battle for the Mind. Can't say I find him very reliable, but I do wonder if I can find some similarity between the models of the mind which he has laid out and tropes about how humans behave.
I’ve just started reading Lacan’s Seminar III: The Psychoses, as the first step in a project I’ll be embarking on to do an in-depth reading of several of his seminars (currently the itinerary includes seminars III, VII, and XX, although I may slip X in there as well).
Lacan has a collected volume of essays and papers known as the Écrits which is largely indecipherable, and bears most of the responsibility for his reputation as a “postmodernist obscurantist charlatan”, but the in-person lectures and seminars he gave were much more lucid and grounded.
My main interest in this seminar stems from its (relatively brief) discussions of hysteria and OCD, although I’m hoping that I’ll find his discussion of schizophrenia to be illuminating as well.
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