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Latest — Jul 23, 2025

Close Reading & Psychoanalytic Listening

In the article Close Reading Is For Everyone, Dan Sinykin writes, So what is close reading? As my co-editor and I write in our book, “Close reading is the practice of paying attention to a passage of text to account for at least one aspect of its meaning and to

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⌬ Links 22-7-25

I've been thinking about using [S][J][P] as a way to record the things I'm reading, watching, listening, or just exploring on the web. Today, I'll give that a try. Text (Reading): (1) This essay on the release of Apple's Liquid

Checking in 22-7-25

Hello, Tuesday is always the busiest day of my week. Today is Tuesday, and it is even busier than usual. I’ve got sessions (of psychoanalysis/psychotherapy) booked back to back all day long. Because I use the Lacanian practice of a variable-length session, some may end at points that

Access to healthy communities

In this post on his Substack, Chris Arnade makes the following observation about men today. If they don't have access to healthy communities, they will find unhealthy ones. The term I've used for the phenomenon of unhealthy communities welcoming people who can't find a

Curiosity, Judgment, Mia Khalifa, & Bella Freud

Speaking in an episode of Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud, Mia Khalifa says: I think, as I’ve grime older, desire doesn’t mean anything. I think curiosity means a lot more than desire. That’s what moves me, when someone is curious, that when someone […] desires me [in a

Later?

When I was young, there would be something I needed to do, and I'd say to myself, "I'll do it later." Then I would go and take a nap, or make a bagel, or watch something on TV. Time went by, and then I&

Reading so far in 2025

Here is a list of books I've read so far this year: * The Night in Gethsemane: On Solitude and Betrayal, by Massimo Recalcati * Red Team Blues, by Cory Doctorow (Book 1 of 3 in a series) * The Bezzle, by Cory Doctorow (Book 2 of 3 in a series)

Self authorization

From this post by Wesley Verhoven There’s this trap a lot of us fall into, especially early on. We wait. For someone to notice us. To give us a shot. To say, “Yes, you’re ready.” But most of the creative breakthroughs I admire, and many of the ones

Interpretation in a general sense

Speaking about the interpretation of dreams (the act of interpreting dreams and the book by Freud), Lacan says, What thus guides us when we interpret dreams is certainly not, "What does it mean?" or "What does it want by saying that?" but rather, "What, by

Castrration, the Post-Liberal Right, and the Liberal Left

I've been trying to suss out (for myself) some of the theoretical orientations that thinkers from the current liberal left and (post-liberal) right are making use of in their thinking. One of the thinkers who appears to offer a theory of the State that many post-liberal right-wing thinkers