08
Apr
Why People Like to Hate Freud
A while back, I did an InForm: Podcast [https://inform.transistor.fm/] about
why
people enjoy hating Freud so much
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Notebook
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.
07
Apr
Legible Desires & the Other
OMG. This week is kicking my ass, and I'm super tired. Be that as it may. I'
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06
Apr
Jouissance & Drive
More from Miller's The Invention of the Partner
[https://www.thelacanianreviews.com/the-invention-of-the-partner/].
Yesterday I wrote about drive
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05
Apr
Miller on Desire v. Drive
I wrote a bit about this earlier
[https://www.surplusjouissance.com/drive-v-instincts-in-psychoanalytic-theory/],
and today I'm going to return
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04
Apr
Drive v. Instincts in Psychoanalytic Theory
Much has been made about the stupid decision to translate instinkt and Trieb
into the English word instinct. One of
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04
Apr
Montaigne | The Essays, Book II, Essay 1.
I've been kind of passively reading the Complete Essays of Michel de Montaigne
[https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/
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01
Apr
Durable Unconcious v. Transient Consciousness
More from the essay Dora by Janet Malcolm
[https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Janet+Malcolm&crid=13WSY105TB697&
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01
Apr
Intellectual Life as Specialized Craftsmanship
From a New York Magazine profile on Adam Tooze
[https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/adam-tooze-profile.html], where the
years Tooze
01
Apr
The End of Analysis | Making Nonsense of Our Neurosis
The quote below appears in the essay Dora by Janet Malcolm
[https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Janet+Malcolm&
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31
Mar
Some Notes on Algorithms | For a Presentation I'll Give Next Month
I'm working on a short presentation that I'll give next month at the monthly
member'
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