General Head-Noise
22/1/24
Starting
The day is overcast. I look out the window and see the gray sky and the white snow. The contrast is pleasant and matches my emotional landscape.
7:14 am
Up and moving…
Neil Gorman
Our past influences but does not determine
When I taught in a school of social work, one of the things I found a little unsettling was the propensity of some students to over-emphasize the effects of a person’s contest (i.e., a person’s past circumstances) on their present situation.
I thought about this recently when
Gil Caroz on Psychosis v. Neurosis.
From the text, The Degree Zero of Madness, by Gil Caroz:
The psychotic, however, distinguishes himself in that he recognizes the foreign presence of this Other who speaks through him, who occasionally speaks to him and intrudes. In contrast, the neurotic ignores the fact that the Other speaks within him,
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I was trying to get my middle kid to nap because he was super tired, and I'm 100% positive he would have benefitted from a nap. The child disagreed with this and kept himself awake by singing jingle bells at high volume.
"You're
General Head-Noise
21/2/24
General Head-Noise posts are started at the beginning of my day and updated throughout the day. The posts contain a semi-structured collection of thoughts, reflections, reactions, associations, and observations.
There are far from fully formed / completely thought out ideas. Instead, they are ideas in an emergent state,
The Convivial Society | On Language & the Symbolic Today
Writing in his email newsletter, The Convivial Society, L.M. Sacasas gives us the following:
Close to the start of the year, I reflected on the plight of language under digital conditions. I was motivated by the sense that “something of consequence is happening to ordinary language, the lifeblood of
Freud, Lacan & the importance of linguistic analysis
On page 47 of the English edition of Seminar X: Anxiety (Amazon), Lacan says,
Even from a superficial reading [of Freud], the first thing that leaps to yoru attention is the importance Freud attaches to linguistic analysis.
I think psychotherapy often misses the importance of the language, the words, and