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Energetic Pessimist

This is another short burst from the excellent intellectual biography At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva [https://www.amazon.com/Risk-Thinking-Intellectual-Biography-Psychoanalytic-ebook/dp/B084GW69DX/ref=sr_1_1?crid=QLZQEPHZLAFK&keywords=an+intellectual+biography+of+julia+kristeva&qid=1649782785&sprefix=an+intellectual+biogaphy+

Kristeva | A Contestatory Intellectual

These words from Alice Jardine's [https://scholar.harvard.edu/alicejardine/home] At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva [https://www.amazon.com/Risk-Thinking-Intellectual-Biography-Psychoanalytic-ebook/dp/B084GW69DX/ref=sr_1_1?crid=QLZQEPHZLAFK&keywords=an+intellectual+biography+of+julia+kristeva&qid=1649782785&sprefix=

InForm | On psychoanalysis for people who don't know they can have it

INTRO: On this episode of the InForm: Podcast I talk with psychoanalyst Michael McAndrews who practices out in Colorado. Michael's practice is unique for several reasons. The first is that he provides psychoanalysis to people who normally would not have the ability to afford mental health services. The

Symbolic Bodies

In Philosophy of Care [https://www.versobooks.com/books/3951-philosophy-of-care] Boris Groys [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Groys] explains in the present we have a "symbolic body" that is administered by large bureaucracies, the most powerful of which is the state. > Indeed, protection of our living

The Modern State is Biopolitical

In the introduction to his book Philosophy of Care [https://www.versobooks.com/books/3951-philosophy-of-care] Boris Groys [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Groys] says: > Foucault was right when he described modern states as biopolitical. Their main function is to take care of the physical well-being of their populations.

Super InFormal | Season 2, Episode 001

I just released the first episode of the second season of my podcast Super InFormal, which is available to A/V Club and SUPPORTING Members of [S][J][P]. To get access to past and future episodes of Super InFormal you'll need to become a A/V Club

Why People Like to Hate Freud

A while back, I did an InForm: Podcast [https://inform.transistor.fm/] about why people enjoy hating Freud so much [https://inform.transistor.fm/episodes/inform-046-why-do-people-enjoy-hating-freud-so-much] . More recently, I found this great bit of text in Janet Malcolm [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Malcolm]'s The Purloined Clinic

Legible Desires & the Other

OMG. This week is kicking my ass, and I'm super tired. Be that as it may. I'm still reading (at this point, it is re-reading, again and again) The Invention of the Partner [https://www.thelacanianreviews.com/the-invention-of-the-partner/] by Jacques-Alain Miller. I have thoughts. I don&

Anxiety as Humidity

Over the past week, I've been doing some teaching about anxiety and anxiety, panic attacks, and phobias. As I was teaching on Monday, I thought of a metaphor to explain some of the things I think about anxiety. I was in the middle of a lecture when this

All Anxiety is...

Yesterday, I wrote about how all drive is (in some way) death drive [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/miller-on-desire-v-drive/]. I also think that all anxiety is castration anxiety. -◉- The idea that all anxiety is castration anxiety came up years ago in a session of analysis. It was the first