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Journal

The journal tag is a bit different than the notebook tag… The journal or personal thoughts, feelings, reveries, etc. that I want to document. The notebook, on the other hand, is this a bunch of stuff that I find I don’t wanna lose track of.

One Effect of Being an Analysand

After being in analysis for years, I've experienced saying more and less than I intend. I've made slips, I've been arrogant, I've been overly deferential, so on and so forth. Even after several years of this, I'm still surprised when my unconscious reveals something. This is funny because I had

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 of all

Making Sentences

I've been writing every day for some time now. Be that as it may, I don't have a massive amount of writing done. The bit of text [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/something-went-wrong/] I sent out/posted about my experience of being a kid when the Challenger exploded took a week

Random Thing in an Old Notebook

Going through an old notebook, I found the following sentence: > Analysts more than most people set up boundaries and then let people have whatever reaction they want to have to those boundaries. I don’t know if this was something I thought up and then wrote down or if I

The Quotidian Associations №008 | Self Criticism & Self Agrandisment

I've been reading some Derrida [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida] as of late. Whenever I do this, I start to think about things deconstructively [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/derrida/#Dec]. I playfully consider the binary opposition between two related concepts and think about what would happen if

◉ Newsletter v.4.3 | What is Happening in Ukraine

This week I've been reading articles, listening to podcasts, and seeing images and videos of what is happening in Ukraine. In the papers, I've seen lots of words about the heroic resistance of the Ukrainians. The text, sounds, and images that show brave people standing up to a heavenly armed

The Quotidian Associations №007 | Writing Things

I'm thinking about the text (book?) I want to write. I think about this often. The problem is that the imagined vision of the finished text keeps changing. Be that as is it may, I keep returning to a particular desire: I want to write a text that could teach

The Quotidian Associations № 006| Libidinal Economy

Events that have taken place during the past few days have got me thinking about libidinal economy. Marxists (and other politically interested people) think about political economy. Psychoanalysts think about libidinal economy. -◉- Nowadays, people will often use the term libido as a synonym for sex drive, but I

The Quotidian Associations №005 | Libido, Object, Jouissance

When I was first learning about psychoanalysis someone told me, "psychoanalysis can be described in lots of different ways, but I think that fundamentally it is the examination and description of the relationship between the subject and their object." -◉- Frued used the concept of libido to describe the

The Quotidian Associations №004 | Reply to a Cliché

When someone says, "The truth will set you free." I say, "Yeah, but only after it has its way with you." -◉- Perhaps the truth is another way of signifying the real. We don't know what the real wants. We don't know what it will do when it has