Lacanian links
Glueboot wrote a post a while back about lucid dreaming or astral projection, as it’s also known (although she doesn’t use either term). This reminded me of my experiments in that direction as a teenager, inspired by a varied collection of text files downloaded from bulletin boards (check out the ‘occult’ section in particular). I was never much cop at it, though – I never fought my spirit adversary, or anything like that.
Still, the interest survives to some extent, so I was interested to come across this crazy magazine (it takes a while to get started, but by the time it’s got on to talking about Aleister Crowley and aliens, it’s pretty good). There are interesting similarities to (courtesy of k-punk) this piece on William Burroughs and hyperstitiality (a concept Grant Morrison seems determined to expound through the unlikely medium of DC comics).
Alan Moore (who also writes for Kaos magazine), meanwhile, is exploring more conventional Crowley-type magic in his incredible series Promethea. Particularly interesting is issue 10, ‘Sex, Stars and Serpents’, a kind of Kabbalistic sex scene which struck me as interestingly Lacanian, particularly this passage:
Magicians, irrespective of their gender, are male. Their symbol is the wand – the male member – because they are that which seeks to penetrate the mystery. But once they succeed, then they become magic, they become the mystery, become that which is penetrated. They become female.
You have to wait for issue 12 for Crowley’s joke about a mongoose, and all the way to issue 20 for Crowley in drag riding a camel.
And while I’m linking to things, here’s a good (although regrettably non-Lacanian) post on exactly why Bush=Hitler.
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