Psychoanalysis & Cultural Studies
Jacques-Alain Miller says in The Experience of the Real in Psychoanalysis:
The waning [of transference] becomes manifest among the advocates
Could anything become normal?
“Even time travel becomes normal when it’s your day job.”
A line from the novel Permafroat by Alastair Reynolds.
Psychoanalysis as "Cure"
Jacques-Alain Miller says in The Experience of the Real in Psychoanalysis:
It has been for many years now that health
Quoditian stuides?
Another fragment of an idea:
I've started to think of (a lot of) what I'm trying
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
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
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?
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
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
The Convivial Society | On Language & the Symbolic Today
Writing in his email newsletter, The Convivial Society, L.M. Sacasas gives us the following:
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