To Have It Lost

the Universal is not

but the Frame

that Fall us out

Photo and text: Ervik Cejvan

Qu'on dise comme fait reste oublié
derrière ce qui est dit,
dans ce qui s'entend

Jacques Lacan, ... ou pire (leçon XII, 21 juin 1972)

(That one says remains forgotten
as a fact behind what is said,
in what is understood.)

Translation: C. Gallagher

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Descartes on Truth by Light and learning

"A good man is not required to have read every book or diligently mastered everything taught in the Schools. It would, indeed, be a kind of defect in his education if he had spent too much time on book-learning."

Descartes, The Search For Truth By Means Of Natural Light

Well, my dear René, to pass the examination is the task today. Not the thinking. Or, perhaps, as Florence Welch captures the melancholy of the subject:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGH-4jQZRcc

Freud on the joy-uissance of man

"Man tries to satisfy his need for aggression at the expense of

his neighbor, to exploit his work without compensation, to use him sexually

without his consent, to appropriate his goods, to humiliate him, to inflict

suffering on him, to torture and kill him."

S. Freud, Civilisation and Its Discontents