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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.

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

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

◉ 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

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

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

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

The Quotidian Associations №003 | More Knowledge & Truth

Picking up where I left off yesterday regarding the differences between knowledge and truth and riffing a bit more. -◉- People will sometimes ask me some version of, "What is the difference between psychoanalysis and psychotherapy?" They start in the same way: A patient comes to a

The Quotidian Associations №002 | Knowlege & Truth

I've been getting ready to teach a class by trying to explain to myself the difference between truth and knowledge from a Lacanian perspective. I've been at it for a bit now, and I want to write down what I believe I've worked out.

The Quotidian Associations №001 | Intro...

I'm going to be starting a new experiment today, which I'm going to call The Quotidian Associations [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/tag/tqa/]. The plan is to make 100 of these short posts about some of the things that I'm thinking about and archive