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JA Miller on “Common Sense” in Psychoanalysis March 13, 2020 Jacques-Alain Miller & Sinthome & Psychoanalysis Common sense, it’s what everyone agrees on. Psychoanalysis finds itself fundamentally in default with respect to the agreement that grounds common The treatment of psychotics in the Lacanian Orientation March 12, 2020 Lacan & Ordinary Psychosis & Psychosis & Jacques-Alain Miller I’m getting ready to (attempt to) teach students about the Lacanian orientation’s approach to treating patients with a psychotic structure. Most of Can we use the signifier “virtual” in a similar way that we use the signifier “imaginary” March 8, 2020 Deleuze & Cooper Cherry & Andrew Culp & Imaginary &  Virtual I was listening to an older episode of _The Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour1_ , where Cooper Cherry interviews Andrew Culp (author of Dark Deleuze). The object a that haunts March 7, 2020 Lacan & Object a & Hauntology I’ve been doing some writing about object a for Complex Praxis, so I’ve been on the lookout for some bits of text that describe object a in Notes on the semblance February 28, 2020 Lacan & Semblant & Object a & Das Ding & Russell Grigg The notes on this come from an post on Lacan.com by Russell Grigg.1 I took some rather chaotic notes on the text, and wanted to pst those notes here The monster of Autocracy is not dead, yo. February 13, 2020 Monsterology & Hauntology I read a post by John Gruber on Daring Fireball today, which linked to this article at the Atlantic by David Frum. What has happened in Hungary Bataille’s Mic Drop February 10, 2020 Bataille & Sacrifice & Freud & Death Drive I highlighted this in my copy of the text, and put a big ! by it. No one can say without being comical that he is getting ready to over­turn Bataille, McGowan, Sacrifice, & Enjoyment. February 10, 2020 Bataille & Todd McGowan & Sacrifice I’m diving into Georges Bataille’s The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, after reading about Bataille’s ideas in Todd McGowan’s Object a — In A Field Guide to Getting Lost January 31, 2020 Lacan & Object a & Rebecca Solnit In A Field Guide to Getting Lost Rebecca Solnit writes about how when a person looks towards a distant mountain the mountain seems hazy and tinted Brian Eno on (psychoanalytic) listening January 30, 2020 Brian Eno & Listening & Unconscious I recently found the following bit of text from an interview with Brian Eno. …The biggest mistake is to wait for inspiration. It won’t come looking Biopolitics V. Necropolitics January 27, 2020 Necropolitics & Foucault & Archille Mbembe Continuing to do a little bit of reading on the term necropolitics, I found this. The term ‘biopolitics’ was coined by Michel Foucault in the Necropolitics January 27, 2020 Hauntology & Necropolitics & Archille Mbembe In my continuing attempts to understand hauntology I came across a book titled Necropolitics by Achille Mbembe. I was intrigued by the concept, but Saying too much is asking to be loved January 23, 2020 Lacan & Bruce Fink & Analyst’s Discourse & Jouissance Earlier today, in this post, I wrote about the discourse of the analyst being contingent on the analyst saying very little, and what the analyst Just make a note, don’t (try to) create insight January 23, 2020 Lacan & Analyst’s Discourse & Jacques-Alain Miller & Jouissance One of the things I’ve been gathering texts on is how an analyst uses or refrains from using their speech in an analytic session. How the analyst Two ways to think of haunting: January 21, 2020 Hauntology & Mark Fisher & Avery F. Gordon I’m finding myself looking at haunting in two different ways. The first way — is more social and takes place within a group or society. This first The Body & Hauntology January 19, 2020 Castration & Hauntology & Power In an earlier post here on the commonplace book I wrote about the idea of castration-gone-wrong. Since writing that I’ve continued to think about Lifeworld | Ghostworld January 17, 2020 Hauntology & Husserl & Phenomenology & Unconscious Haunting is something that happens in the world of the living, it is those who live that are haunted. Ergo, any understanding of haunting is Violation as “Castration-gone-wrong” January 16, 2020 Hauntology & Lacan & Castration & Avery F. Gordon In an earlier post I was working through a part of a text by Avery F. Gordon, and attempted to link what haunts to a violation that has been covered What would Hauntography entail? January 16, 2020 Hauntography & Hauntology & Ethnography After posting this, I’ve been wondering what hauntography, as a research method combining hauntology and ethnography, entail? Would it be something Ghostly Matters: Reading Notes 001 January 16, 2020 Hauntology & Avery F. Gordon & Reading Notes Below are some direct quotes from Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination By Avery F. Gordon. Haunting is not the same as being Next page