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This category is stuff that I come across in stuff I read, or watch, or listen to, and don’t want to forget. It’s also a record of thoughts that make up my head noise.

Jared Elwart in the LRO!

My collaborator Jared Elwart had something published at The Lacanian Review Online. The piece is titled A Falling away of Guarantee, and it is about the film Everything Everywhere All At Once and what this film can teach us about psychoanalysis. From the introduction paragraph: Watching the trailers, one gets

Sally Rooney on Reacting Against the Dominant Narrative as a Subject

From the City Arts & Lectures with Sally Rooney: Sally Rooney City Arts Lectures 12m56s 14m04s 432340:00/1:071× What I liked about this is that Sally Rooney accurately described what it is to be what Lacanians call a subject. As subjects, we are inconsistent, always working out what

Rachel Cusk: The Drift of Language

When I listen to podcasts, I use the Castro app. One of the reasons I use this, as opposed to one of the other many podcast apps, is that it lets me save clips from individual podcasts directly to my desktop. I've amassed a large number of these

Speaking Freely but Thoughtfully

From this Newyorker profile of Maggie Nelson titled The Many Lives of Maggie Nelson. Speaking freely but thoughtfully is important to Nelson, in part because as a kid she was teased for being a “Chatty Cathy,” and in part because she finds ideas irrepressible and exciting to explore. "Speaking

Professional Wrestling & Hysterics

From The Hysteric-Obsessional Dialectic in True Detective by Daniel Tutt. The question the hysteric asks is thus: what kind of object am I for the other? What I like about this quote is how it shows that the hysteric can become interested in the position they are taking up relative

Sally Rooney on the Non-Rapport of Intimate Relationships

I read this article/interview with Sally Rooney today. At one point, the interviewer asks Romney if she thinks the characters in her novels have “healthy relationships” with one any. > [Rooney] pauses. “What does it mean to have a healthy relationship? It’s such a strangely clinical way of

The Subject v. Ego

More From On the Aim and End of Analysis in the Lacanian School [https://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/on-the-aim-and-end-of-analysis-in-the-lacanian-school/] by Raul Moncayo. > [T]he unconscious, and [the subject], is best described as no-self. Of the three categories of self, ego, and subject, the subject is the one that best captures

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on The Northman

I read the following in one of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's substack [https://kareem.substack.com/p/will-the-northman-bring-back-mens?s=r], where he talks about his reaction to the film The Northman. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11138512/] The whole post is worth reading, but this bit stood out to me:

This week on [S][J][P] | Ex-sist

This week, I will be focusing on a text by J.A. Miller titled Ex-sist, which appeared in The Lacanian Review Issue #7 Get Real. [https://www.amazon.com/Lacanian-Review-Get-Real/dp/1658773225/ref=sr_1_6?crid=2QKJIV67MKETI&keywords=the+lacanian+review&qid=1651500022&sprefix=the+lacanian+

An Example of Honest, Clear, Good Writing

Another great bit of text 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=