How on earth is anyone from outside psychotherapy or critical theory (and perhaps those within) meant to penetrate this …. The text to the left (or above if you’re on a phone) is a screenshot of Lacan’s writing included in Zizek’s (2006) introduction to Lacan. The screenshot [below] is a conversation I had with a French friend who explains the etymology of Lacan’s use of word Homelette to me. Finally, the drawing is “Leeuwenhoek’s early microscopic observations of rabbit sperm (figs. 1-4) and dog sperm (figs. 5-8). Wikimedia Commons” where sperm – which might remind you of a white omelette is represented as a little (weak?) man.
There is also a book where Lacan’s Lamella is placed alongside Fanon’s writing about skin (Stephens, 2018). And in a Wikipedia article, the album cover for Prodigy’s Music for a Jilted Generation is given as an example – prompting me to consider shoving a pair of tights over my face and photographing myself doing silly scary faces. I’ll refrain, it’s too obvious and silly. And in any case, we feel these horrors sitting at a desk, in a class, while shopping for milk.
I am reminded again and again of my tendency to use the word ‘critter’ when describing humans. Critters with language which allows us to operate under the illusion we are more than critters. And then there’s Ettinger’s deeply humanist conviction that Freud, Lacan, probably Melanie Klein, Deleuze too, have lost touch with that. But somehow for me it is caught up in the relationship we have with our media. I think something of this is missing from the Lamella:// website.
Ten days or so to rectify that… (if I’m to inject my MA assessment submission with whatever is missing).
Magazine, S. and Poppick, L. (s.d.) The Long, Winding Tale of Sperm Science. At: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/scientists-finally-unravel-mysteries-sperm-180963578/ (Accessed 05/05/2023).
Stephens, M. Skin, stain and lamella: Fanon, Lacan, and inter-racializing the gaze.Psychoanal Cult Soc 23, 310–329 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-018-0104-1
Zizek, S. (2006) How to read Lacan. London: Granta. At: http://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/product/openreader?id=none&isbn=9781847085405 (Accessed 19/06/2022).