◎ Drafts №8 | Some more Žižek & "We are all mad here."
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Access to healthy communities
In this post on his Substack, Chris Arnade makes the following observation about men today.
If they don't have access to healthy communities, they will find unhealthy ones.
The term I've used for the phenomenon of unhealthy communities welcoming people who can't find a
Jouissance v. Desire
The distinction
I've been continuing to do work/research for something where I'm going to need to spend some tie
• Desire is structured by lack—it’s metonymic, always pointing toward an object that stands in for another. It’s inherently deferred, tied to the future,
Two Types of Jouissance & Desire
I've been doing some preliminary work and research for a writing project. Part of this work has involved trying to formalize and articulate the distinctions between., Other jouissance, phallic jouissance, and desire.
Here is a working hypothesis:
* Desire is how the subject relates to what is lost through