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.
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Jan

Psychoanalysis & Cultural Studies

Jacques-Alain Miller says in The Experience of the Real in Psychoanalysis: The waning [of transference] becomes manifest among the advocates
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29
Jan

Could anything become normal?

“Even time travel becomes normal when it’s your day job.” A line from the novel Permafroat by Alastair Reynolds.
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28
Jan

Psychoanalysis as "Cure"

Jacques-Alain Miller says in The Experience of the Real in Psychoanalysis: It has been for many years now that health
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26
Jan

Quoditian stuides?

Another fragment of an idea: I've started to think of (a lot of) what I'm trying
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26
Jan

Some thoughts on how people orient in the present quotidian

Earlier today, I was thinking about how people have a sort of "home base" in time. 💡A working
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24
Jan

The drive to transcend all limits

From Pynchon’s Prophecy, by Gus Mitchell: Pynchon shows us that the drive to transcend all limits has constructed systems
23
Jan

The body is an instrument we play when we speak

This morning, I was reading The Pinning of Someone Unplaceable by Dominique Holvoet in The Lacanian Review #9: Still Life?
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22
Jan

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
22
Jan

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
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21
Jan

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
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