Psychoanalysis

26
Apr

The Revolution as Semblant

I recorded an episode of the InForm: Podcast [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/tag/inform/]with Jason & Chris from the
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25
Apr

Speaking at the right moment

I've been doing some work to get ready for some teaching I'm going to be doing
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13
Apr

Energetic Pessimist

This is another short burst from the excellent intellectual biography At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia
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11
Apr

InForm | On psychoanalysis for people who don't know they can have it

INTRO: On this episode of the InForm: Podcast I talk with psychoanalyst Michael McAndrews who practices out in Colorado. Michael&
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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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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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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