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Reading Notes

These are notes I take on things I'm reading. They are often disorganized, and they might not make much sense to people who are not me... be that as it may, as a supporting member of [S][J][P], you're welcome to them.

⚯ Reading Notes | Interview with an Alleged Vampire

I read this profile of Joss Whedon [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joss_Whedon] in New York Magazine today. I found a something things in it that I want to remember. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Describing the work of film scholar Jeanine Basinger [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanine_Basinger]: > In one

⚯ Reading Notes | All My Reals, By Gerardo Aranas

What real is at stake in psychoanalysis today? This is the question that is orienting the work that the Lacanian Compass [https://www.lacaniancompass.com] (which I am a member of) is working on now. The work will culminate in the Clinical Study Days 14 [https://www.lacaniancompass.com/csd]

⚯ Reading Notes | Craig Mod: Roden 063

Hi, Usually, I don't send out my ⚯ Reading Notes as an email; I just post them to [S][J][P] in the Reading Notes section [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/tag/reading-notes/]. However, I'm sending this one out to make anyone who reads these missives aware that

⚯ Reading Notes | Mental Health & The Social order

⚯ Reading Notes | Mental Health & The Social order

> [M]ental health is part, a subcategory, of the set of the public order. > There is no other definition for mental health than that of public order. [...] Mental heal [is] defined, then, by reference to [the] public order. Mental health works to maintain the social order. Psychoanalysts don&

⚯ Reading Notes | Miles Law via David French

In his Third Rail Email Newsletter [https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/the-third-rail/], political commentator David French [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_French_(political_commentator)] says the following: > I’d like to introduce you to an obscure but commonsense statement about human nature. It’s called Miles’s law [https:

⚯ Reading Notes | Notes on Attacking & Defending, from Dust of Dreams

⚯ Reading Notes | Notes on Attacking & Defending, from Dust of Dreams

Hello, And welcome to ⚯ Reading Notes [www.surplusjouissance.com/tag/reading-notes/], which is a new project under [S][J][P] [www.surplusjouissance.com] where I keep the notes I take on what I'm reading. These notes are written for me, so I'm not 100% sure they