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Journal

The journal tag is a bit different than the notebook tag… The journal or personal thoughts, feelings, reveries, etc. that I want to document. The notebook, on the other hand, is this a bunch of stuff that I find I don’t wanna lose track of.

The Quotidian Associations №005 | Libido, Object, Jouissance

When I was first learning about psychoanalysis someone told me, "psychoanalysis can be described in lots of different ways, but I think that fundamentally it is the examination and description of the relationship between the subject and their object." -◉- Frued used the concept of libido to

The Quotidian Associations №004 | Reply to a Cliché

When someone says, "The truth will set you free." I say, "Yeah, but only after it has its way with you." -◉- Perhaps the truth is another way of signifying the real. We don't know what the real wants. We don't

The Quotidian Associations №003 | More Knowledge & Truth

Picking up where I left off yesterday regarding the differences between knowledge and truth and riffing a bit more. -◉- People will sometimes ask me some version of, "What is the difference between psychoanalysis and psychotherapy?" They start in the same way: A patient comes to a

The Quotidian Associations №002 | Knowlege & Truth

I've been getting ready to teach a class by trying to explain to myself the difference between truth and knowledge from a Lacanian perspective. I've been at it for a bit now, and I want to write down what I believe I've worked out.

The Quotidian Associations №001 | Intro...

I'm going to be starting a new experiment today, which I'm going to call The Quotidian Associations [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/tag/tqa/]. The plan is to make 100 of these short posts about some of the things that I'm thinking about and archive

AM⌭PM | 020

I wrote a newsletter this morning, and right after I hit send, I noticed a typo. This was frustrating, perhaps more frustrating than a typo in a newsletter should be. I fixed the typo on the version of the post that will live here on [S][J][P] [https://www.

AM⌭PM | 019

One of the things that I've been thinking a lot about is how I would describe the particular combination of social work and psychoanalysis that I'm attempting to enact. For a long time, I've seen these two preoccupations (both of which are my occupations)

AM⌭PM | 018

Hello, Today is the first day of a new semester. I'll be teaching four classes of (depending on how many students add or drop the courses) 80-90 students. All the courses are sections of SWK-6521, which I've been making podcast lectures for here [https://www.surplusjouissance.

AM ⌭PM | 017

I woke up in the middle of the night last night. This happens to me a lot, but I can get back to sleep most of the time. Last night was not one of the "most of the time" times. After tossing and turning for a few hours,

AM⌭PM | 016

One of the first jobs I had in mental health was working in a substance abuse treatment center. There are different kinds of substance abuse treatment centers. Some are like luxury spas; the people you find being treated there are members of wealthy families. The treatment center I worked in