Scratch_pad_2-6-2022
At the start of the day, I create a text file in iA Writer, and I title it Scratch_pad_the_day's_date. Here are some of the things in today's scratch_pad.
“If you read those books carefully and we’ll, and talk about them
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Finished | Conversations with Friends, by Sally Rooney
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Professional Wrestling & Hysterics
From The Hysteric-Obsessional Dialectic in True Detective by Daniel Tutt.
The question the hysteric asks is thus: what kind of object am I for the other?
What I like about this quote is how it shows that the hysteric can become interested in the position they are taking up relative
Sally Rooney on the Non-Rapport of Intimate Relationships
I read this article/interview with Sally Rooney today. At one point, the interviewer asks Romney if she thinks the characters in her novels have “healthy relationships” with one any.
> [Rooney] pauses. “What does it mean to have a healthy relationship? It’s such a strangely clinical way of
The Subject v. Ego
More From On the Aim and End of Analysis in the Lacanian School
[https://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/on-the-aim-and-end-of-analysis-in-the-lacanian-school/]
by Raul Moncayo.
> [T]he unconscious, and [the subject], is best described as no-self. Of the three
categories of self, ego, and subject, the subject is the one that best captures
InForm | Reading & Watching things with a Psychoanalytic Lens, with Jared Elwart
WARNING:
I drop the F-bomb in this episode, and we talk about sex. There is an explicit
tag for a reason!
INTRO:
In this episode of the InForm Podcast, I talk with Jared Elwart about how
reading science fiction makes him think about psychoanalysis and how thinking
about psychoanalysis influences
Psychoanalysis v. Other forms of Mental Health Treatment
From On the Aim and End of Analysis in the Lacanian School
[https://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/on-the-aim-and-end-of-analysis-in-the-lacanian-school/]
by Raul Moncayo. Writing about how people will often point to accounts of
people who say psychoanalysis did nothing for them except cost them lots of time
and money.
> What is often
A Note on Getting Older & Wasted Time
Today is one of those days where I look at the books that I have on my shelves,
and the pdf files on my computer's desktop, the ones I’ve read, and the ones
that I have not read, and I feel a sort of weight—the weight
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on The Northman
I read the following in one of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's substack
[https://kareem.substack.com/p/will-the-northman-bring-back-mens?s=r], where he
talks about his reaction to the film The Northman.
[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11138512/] The whole post is worth reading, but
this bit stood out to me:
This week on [S][J][P] | Ex-sist
This week, I will be focusing on a text by J.A. Miller titled Ex-sist, which
appeared in The Lacanian Review Issue #7 Get Real.
[https://www.amazon.com/Lacanian-Review-Get-Real/dp/1658773225/ref=sr_1_6?crid=2QKJIV67MKETI&keywords=the+lacanian+review&qid=1651500022&sprefix=the+lacanian+