Perfect Days | Two Quotes
Watching Perfect Days, (directed by Wim Wenders) these line strikes me:
The world is made of many worlds. Some are connected, and some are not.
Next time is next time. Now is now.
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On going on
From A Single Man, by Christopher Isherwood.
The creature we are watching will struggle on and on until it drops. Not because it is heroic. It can imagine no alternative (p. 10).
I like these sentences. They are simple, and they seem so truth to me as I read them.
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Hi,
There has been a long gap between this newsletter and the prior one. I hope you've been doing well in that gap! There are many reasons for this gap, which I might get into in future newsletters (or blog posts and podcasts), but I'm not
Status 2-8-24
Getting ready to re-engage with things via [S][J][P]
I've been radio silent for a long time. There are lots of reasons for this; perhaps I'll write about them in a newsletter or say something about them in a podcast. Perhaps not.
Today is my
Story as carrier of other things
From the July 20th post on Ganzeer Today:
Story is carrier wave for philosophical pondering, parable, moral compass tuning, and factual knowledge. Drama is, for the most part, a really great delivery system.
Vincente Palomera on Symptom v. Drive
Continuing to read from the essay What May I Expect From Psychoanalysis? by Vicente Palomera, which I posted about earlier this week.
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On page 6 of the document, under the heading Symptom and Repression, Palomera points out that the symptom and the drive are separate phenomena.
The symptom is
A path
From L’étourdit (1972), ‘A Bilingual Presentation of the First Turn’ Summer 2009, via Lacan in Ireland.
One can discourse in a thousand ways about the analyst. Rightly or
wrongly. And if it is wrongly (which never fails to be the case), it is better
to traverse its impasses and
⌾ Arbitrage | 4 Things
Hello,
It is Friday, the day I send out a list of things I think might bring some surplus jouissance into the lives of people who read it.
|1| WATCHING (Series) – Season 2 of the show Outer Range (Wikipedia, IMDB) came out recently. I watched the first season when it
Vicente Palomera on turning misery into ordinary unhappiness
From the essay What May I Expect From Psychoanalysis? by Vicente Palomera, which I posted about earlier this week.
Freud has been variously paraphrased as saying that psychoanalysis could treat neurotic misery, but that it could not treat ordinary human unhappiness. [...] This is a phrase of terrible realism and pessimism,
Vincente Palomera on Unconscious knowledge
From the essay What May I Expect From Psychoanalysis? by Vicente Palomera.
Unconscious knowledge is that it is a knowledge that organizes the life of the subject, a knowledge for which the subject is responsible and about which he nevertheless knows nothing. Psychoanalysis is not the path toward assessing knowledge