The Dance of Signs by Sylvere Lotringer

In this lecture, we'll look at Sylvere Lotringer's essay "The Dance of Signs", from "Hatred of Capitalism", published by Semiotext(e) in 2001. This essay is very similar to Deleuze and Guattari's critique of Freudian psychoanalysis in both Anti-Oedipus and "One or Several Wolves?" from A Thousand Plateaus. In this essay, Lotringer looks at Freud's interpretation of "Gradiva", a novella based on a Roman relief of the same name. This essay primarily uses Nietzsche's perspectival approach to truth in The Will to Power and uses it to approach dream analysis (very similar in many regards to schizoanalysis). Enjoy!
Music is Gerard Grisey's Quatre Chants Interlude II • Quatre chants pour fra...
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[@dhaktizero4406]

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[@gavinyoung-philosophy]

Haha cool comment. No problem!

[@shannonm.townsend1232]

Gavin, do you know if Semiotext(e) is still around?

[@gavinyoung-philosophy]

Yup! Still publishing new stuff!

[@shannonm.townsend1232]

@@gavinyoung-philosophy thank you!

[@PunishedFelix]

Honestly a lot of the issues with Freud and signification in his theories probably applies to medicalism in general and has large consequences for gender, body and disability politics hmmm

[@gavinyoung-philosophy]

Could you elaborate? By medicalism is it meant a sort of reductive approach to treatment that applies stereotypes or doesn’t listen to patients?