28
May
Hysteria plus cruelty
David French in his most recent NYTimes column (article is behind the paywall):
Hysteria plus cruelty is a recipe for
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09
May
Purpose, or the lack there of
Craig Mod keeps dropping these wonderful bits of text that are so smart and very well said.
When you watch
03
May
The Role of Reading in Analysis
In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the patient’s/analysand’s speech can be “read” as if it were text. Writing about this
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02
May
Transmitting What Happens in Psychoanalysis
Neville Symington writes:
Psychoanalysis is an experience that occurs between two people. It is a deep experience and can only
01
May
How lunatic your life is getting
From Warren Ellis’s Orbital Operations newsletter:
Rewatching some episodes of SUCCESSION the other day: there's a bit
29
Apr
So True
From Craig Mod:
I am always astonished by kindness and never astonished by cruelty, and in this way my mind
28
Apr
Lacan on Reading & Psychoanalysis
What does Lacan say about the act of reading as a metaphor for psychoanalytic practice? Shoshana Felman offers the following:
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01
Mar
Libido & Desire
Very early in Seminar VI: Desire and Its Interpretation, Lacan points out:
Libido, [which is] a notion that lies at
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20
Feb
Combining Two Things
From the Paris Review interview with Emmanuel Carrère, speaking about W, or the Memory of Childhood, by Georges Perec.
...the
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16
Feb
Creating the Conditions
One of the many things I'm reading at the moment is On Getting Better by Adam Phillips. As
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