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Year end thoughts
Part I
The end of 2025 is rapidly approaching; it's cold outside here in the American Midwest, and I find myself doing a kind of typical (for me) end-of-the-year thinking. This is the kind of thinking that is both backward-looking and forward-looking, where I reflect on the year
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,
Monday | Truth
5/6/2024
Top of Mind
One of the topics that has been on my mind very frequently for many months is the concept of truth throughout the teaching of Lacan. Here are some of the questions that I’ve been considering.
1. What is the relationship between truth and