Thursday
4/4/24
Travel day. I'm writing this after settling in at the hotel where I'm staying.
When I left Chicago, it was snowing, and when I got off the plane in Fort Lauderdale, it was sunny. The temperature was in the 80s, and it was
More issues
Wednesday
3/4/24
The way I pack is so stupid. Yesterday, I got everything packed. Then, today, I was thinking about what I packed and how I packed it, and I decided I needed to do it all over again. Why can't I just pack it the way
Tuesday
2/1/24
I spent most of the day doing clinical work. During breaks, I picked up different things I'm going to need for the trip and packed.
Top of mind:
I've been thinking a lot about the Lacanian concept of the lying truth. This started
Monday
1/4/24
I will be traveling to Clinical Study Days later in the week, and I'm feeling pre-travel nervous energy accumulate, as it always does for me.
The morning has been divided between clinical work (e.g., psychoanalytic sessions) and video calls with people to plan and
The mind you want to live with
On this episode of The Ezra Klein Show (Apple Podcasts, NYTimes). Marilynn Robinson says:
You will have to live with your mind every day of your life, so make sure you have a mind you want to live with.
Simple, but true. I also think the same logic applies to
[Reading] Ribbonfarm
Writing on his blog Ribbonfarm, Venkatesh Rao says,
I was asked in a DM conversation whether I use AI for writing, and I said no, it would be like going for a walk in my car.
This was a great opening sentence! It made me alight, and it said something
⌾ Recommendations | 3 Things
Hi,
It is Friday when I send out an email about things that bring some surplus jouissance to my life. I hope that you will enjoy them as well.
My kids have been on spring break this week. I've been spending lots of time with them and not
⚯ Reading Notes | Analysis Terminable and Interminable
1.
Freud starts by saying something clearly.
Experience has taught us that psycho-analytic therapy —the freeing someone from his neurotic symptoms, inhibitions, and abnormalities of character— is a time-consuming business.
I notice he says "psycho-analytic therapy" and not just psychoanalysis. That's interesting. Perhaps Freud does not
Good Text in Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
I'm reading Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. I'm enjoying it a lot. Here are some bits from the text that I like:
“Always remember, mine Sadie: life is very long, unless it is not.” Sadie knew this to be a tautology, but it
Subject of the enunciation, tomorrow
I found this very early in the novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.
He found himself uttering a series of “excuse mes” that he did not mean. A truly magnificent thing about the way the brain was coded, Sam thought, was that it could say “Excuse me”