Sigmund Freud

 Jacques Lacan

 Slavoj Zizek

The purpose of this blog is to help capture the role that Freud still plays in modern psychoanalysis and philosophy for that matter.  Two of the main reasons for this are Jacques Lacan and Slavoj Zizek.  As Lacan was a dutiful student of Freudian psychoanalysis, he helped to give Freud a voice in the 1950's-70's, well after many had decried Freud as a fraud and a flawed psychologist.

However, as is often said if looking casually on the internet.  There's no reason to throw the baby out with the bath water.  Or, in a human inversion example, the bath water out with the baby.

How does Zizek fit into all of this?  Well, he has picked up Lacan's thoughts, and ran with them, helping to express them to a new generation of scholars.

This is not to say that either of these gentlemen had no disagreements with Freud's theories, or let alone with one another's.  And, it is also not to say that all three of these gentlemen all had different influences on them that have taken them to the places that they were, or currently inhabit (in Zizek's case).  So, even though Freud is the basis, and this website wants to help salvage his positive contributions, these two supporters aren't what you would call party-line voters.

This is all well and good.  As this is the first post, subsequent posts will be on various topics relating to Freud, Zizek, or Lacan.  Some will be papers that are in the making, others will just be bemused thoughts.  Thanks for your time!