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⏣ Secret Stuff | More Info about the Changes

Hello! If you're getting this email, it is because you are a Supporter of [S][J][P]. Thank you so very much for supporting the work I do. -◉- Yesterday, I sent out an email newsletter to everyone on my email list talking about the fact that

◉ Things Change

Hello, I have not sent out a newsletter in a long time. The main reason for this is that the newsletter was a way to keep people up-to-date with the various podcasts and other creative projects I was doing, and it has been a long time since I've

Acting Out & Passage to the Act

I’ve been thinking a lot about acting out and passage to the act. I want to do something with these concepts, but I don’t know exactly what at this moment. Be that as it may, I think I will see what happens when I return to Seminar VII:

Lost Objects

I'm reading Bruce Fink's The Lacanian Subject: Between Language & Jouissance, and in chapter 7: Object (a): Casuse of Desire, I found this amazing paragraph. Freud does not claim here that the object is, of its very nature, lost in any absolute sense. An object is

Milch on not knowing

From David Milch's autobiography, Life's Work, (2022). The very idea of not knowing as an organizing principle is to be accepted with a proper humility—that it’s a privilege not to know and be given a chance to find out. You’re always aware there’

Imaginary Demand v. Symbolic Law

From Todd McGowan's excellent chapter titled The Psychosis of Freedom: Law in Modernity in Lacan on Psychosis: From Theory to Praxis . There are also times when the social demand seems appealing, such as when it compels everyone to recycle or enjoins acceptance of racial difference. Though one must

Truth & Existence

Neville Symington on the truth in psychoanalysis: Truth is real; it exists. Positivistic thinking has had such a strong influence on our basic assumptions that we tend to identify the real with what we can touch, taste, feel, see or hear. We need to ditch this preconception if we are

Remember this about the Other

In his 2000 article, Melancholy and the Act, Žižek writes: The Lacanian big Other designates not merely the explicit symbolic Rules regulating social interaction but also the intricate cobweb of unwritten, implicit rules. I think this is important to remember.

Lacan on Aristotle

In Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960, Lacan says the following about reading Aristotle: There are no doubt a number of difficulties to be found at the level of the text, and it's digressions and in the order of his arguments. But skip over the passages that

Debt Ceiling

Ezra Klein writes (behind NYTimes paywall): Defenders of the debt ceiling will tell you that the limit has been around a long time and has largely operated to the good. America has never defaulted on its debts, but the debt ceiling has often motivated compromise between the two parties. That