Notebook

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.
17
Jun

Vincente Palomera on Symptom v. Drive

Continuing to read from the essay What May I Expect From Psychoanalysis? by Vicente Palomera, which I posted about earlier
4 min read
12
Jun

A path

From L’étourdit (1972), ‘A Bilingual Presentation of the First Turn’ Summer 2009, via Lacan in Ireland. One can discourse
1 min read
24
May

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
1 min read
21
May

Vincente Palomera on Unconscious knowledge

From the essay What May I Expect From Psychoanalysis? by Vicente Palomera. Unconscious knowledge is that it is a knowledge
1 min read
17
May

The Symptom: Then & Now

From I Have Heard the Mermaids Singing, by Christopher Bollas. In the essay he traced the origin of the idea
1 min read
23
Apr

Afterwardness

From I have an even more pressing sense that the next seven years of my life will look very different
21
Apr

Reading The Iliad

Here is a short line: the god spread deadly plague throughout the camp, so that the common troops began to
20
Apr

Texas & VPNs

From the if Houston based artist Ganzeer’s blog. Apparently, there are websites you can't access from Texas
18
Apr

Thursday 4/18 | Delusion

In There are Four Discourses, Lacan says that Freud thought: That all is but a dream and that everyone (if
31
Mar

The mind you want to live with

On this episode of The Ezra Klein Show (Apple Podcasts, NYTimes). Marilynn Robinson says: You will have to live with