‘No believer should arrive willing.
January 11, 2021
’ So said that High Priestess, Salind, before Gradithan destroyed her. Monkrat recalled being confused by that
From Julian Simpson’s email newsletter
November 7, 2020
Julian Simpson & Hollywood & Economics & COVID-19 **
Writing Julian Simpson has a great email newsletter called INFODUMP. This bit of text was in the most recent edition of that. The more you watch
Can you live without answers?
November 7, 2020
Ambiguity & Monsterology & \*\*
I mentioned yesterday that I’m currently reading another fantasy book titled Toll the hounds by Steven Erikson. Today I came across the following:
talking about music
September 22, 2020
Music & The Body & Mark Fisher
Headphone Commute has a great interview with Here are a few gems I cut and pasted from it. It looks like tempo, the speed at which we’re
Racism, hate, & jouissance
September 22, 2020
Jouissance & the Other & Racism & Monsterology
Hate is a product of the death drive. … The aggressivity of the mirror stage is based on an ignorance of oneself, the subject projecting onto the
The Body & Memory
September 22, 2020
The Body & The Real
The body remembers slowly and forgets very quickly.1 This is part of the real that is the body James A. Reeves, blog post titled Grind, in
The Reanimated Monster of Totalitarianism
September 22, 2020
Hauntology & Monsterology & Neoliberalism & Liberalism & Semblants
The fall of totalitarian regimes in the middle of the last century did not open onto a genuinely democratic future. Neoliberalism simply shed the
Is it still there?
September 22, 2020
The Real
It is enough to say that each one, in his or her own way, produces a dense veil of meaning before that real which is still there, every morning,
23% of the population makes up 48% of the parents…
September 22, 2020
Interesting
From The Atlantic_story America’s Innovation Engine is Slowing_ _ “The ten most innovative cities in the United States,” a recent research paper
The Speaking Body
June 12, 2020
Lacan & Seminar XX & Speaking Body
I’ve found that some non-Lacanians believe that Lacan does not focus on (or completely overlooks) affect and/or the importance of “body language.”
a rescue mission, not a war
June 12, 2020
Neighbors & Drive & Death Drive & Jay Springett
In this podcast Jay Springett says we need a better metaphor for some of our macro-social projects. Imagine if we said we are minting a rescue
A funny thing
June 12, 2020
Book-001
Claudia Luiz being interviewed on New Books in Psychoanalysis about her book “The Making of a Psychoanalyst: Studies in Emotional Intelligence, Luis
The Great Truth (insult?) of Psychoanalysis
June 12, 2020
Unconscious & Lacan & Psychoanalysis & Book-1
Psychoanalysis announces that you are no longer the centre of yourself, since there is another subject within you, the Unconscious. 1 This very
The effect of the Name-of-the-Father & the Law
May 28, 2020
Name-of-the-Father & Desire & Impossibility & Lacan & Book-001
Lacan points out that the crux of desire “is essentially found in impossibly.” He goes on to say But Freud reveals to us that it is thanks to the
Desire comes from…
May 28, 2020
Lacan & the Other & Desire & Jouissance & Das Ding & Phallus & Object a & Symptom & Sinthome & Book-001
One more note from On Freud’s “Trieb” and the Psychoanalyst’s Desire. Lacan says for desire comes from the Other, and jouissance is located on the
Lacan on Drive V. Instinct
May 28, 2020
Drive & Instinct & Lacan & Book-001
In On Freud’s “Trieb” and the Psychoanalyst’s Desire in the Écrits, Lacan says. It can never be often enough repeated … that the drive —the
Mari Ruti on the Repetition Compulsion
May 22, 2020
Repetition Compulsion & Mari Ruti & Book-001
I’m trying to write a good introductory text on the fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis, which (if I complete it) I’ll use in the classes I
Laurent on “awakening”
May 22, 2020
Monsterology & Lacan & Jouissance & Instinct & Drive & Éric Laurent
I was reading something that Eric Laurent presenter at the XII CONGRESS WORLD ASSOCIATION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS April 13-17, which took place in Buenos
Trump is a psychotic structure par excellence
May 22, 2020
COVID-19 & The Real & Psychosis
Today in a post at Daring Fireball John Gruber wrote about a Daily Beast article summering a paywalled article at the Finically Times where Trump
Comedy & Jouissance
May 22, 2020
Dialectal Pessimism & Comedy & Tragic sense of life & Cynic
I read the following by Mario Focchi today. Comedy is certainly one way of escaping the tragic conflict that imprisons the neurotic: when we are
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