“Joyce’s art ‘enabled him to inscribe himself in the Symbolic, thus keeping himself from identifying only with the jouissance attached to the symptoms’ ‘we love more than ourselves’. 'Why would we love our symptoms above all else? Because the jouissance they produce functions as a glue, giving an Imaginary consistency to our lives,’ Ragland writes.” - (via ellie-ragland)

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