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06
Apr

Jouissance & Drive

More from Miller's The Invention of the Partner [https://www.thelacanianreviews.com/the-invention-of-the-partner/]. Yesterday I wrote about drive
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05
Apr

Miller on Desire v. Drive

I wrote a bit about this earlier [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/drive-v-instincts-in-psychoanalytic-theory/], and today I'm going to return
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04
Apr

Drive v. Instincts in Psychoanalytic Theory

Much has been made about the stupid decision to translate instinkt and Trieb into the English word instinct. One of
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04
Apr

Montaigne | The Essays, Book II, Essay 1.

I've been kind of passively reading the Complete Essays of Michel de Montaigne [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/
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03
Apr

⌾ Hello | 001

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02
Apr

◉ Newsletter v.4.7 | Before You Talk to Me About "Being in the Moment"

Hello from the American Midwest. Having little kids changes the way time works. One of the effects of having two
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01
Apr

Durable Unconcious v. Transient Consciousness

More from the essay Dora by Janet Malcolm [https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Janet+Malcolm&crid=13WSY105TB697&
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01
Apr

Intellectual Life as Specialized Craftsmanship

From a New York Magazine profile on Adam Tooze [https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/adam-tooze-profile.html], where the years Tooze
01
Apr

The End of Analysis | Making Nonsense of Our Neurosis

The quote below appears in the essay Dora by Janet Malcolm [https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Janet+Malcolm&
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31
Mar

Some Notes on Algorithms | For a Presentation I'll Give Next Month

I'm working on a short presentation that I'll give next month at the monthly member'
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