Adult Powers
I found this in a post over at Letter of Note, which shows many different bits
from letter E.B. White wrote in a letter to Mrs. A. H. Kimball dated
20th December 1954.
> As a child I was told that I should be seen and not heard. As
Topic
Notebook
This category is stuff that I come across in stuff I read, or watch, or listen to, and don’t want to forget. It’s also a record of thoughts that make up my head noise.
More on Energetic Pessimism
Yesterday, I wrote about the concept of
[https://www.surplusjouissance.com/energetic-pessimist/]energetic pessimism
[https://www.surplusjouissance.com/energetic-pessimist/]. Today I want to keep
exploring this idea. To do this, I want to look at the author's description of
her energetic pessimism. (This is different than the author&
Energetic Pessimist
This is another short burst from the excellent intellectual biography At the
Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva
[https://www.amazon.com/Risk-Thinking-Intellectual-Biography-Psychoanalytic-ebook/dp/B084GW69DX/ref=sr_1_1?crid=QLZQEPHZLAFK&keywords=an+intellectual+biography+of+julia+kristeva&qid=1649782785&sprefix=an+intellectual+biogaphy+
Kristeva | A Contestatory Intellectual
These words from Alice Jardine's [https://scholar.harvard.edu/alicejardine/home]
At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva
[https://www.amazon.com/Risk-Thinking-Intellectual-Biography-Psychoanalytic-ebook/dp/B084GW69DX/ref=sr_1_1?crid=QLZQEPHZLAFK&keywords=an+intellectual+biography+of+julia+kristeva&qid=1649782785&sprefix=
Symbolic Bodies
In Philosophy of Care [https://www.versobooks.com/books/3951-philosophy-of-care]
Boris Groys [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Groys] explains in the present
we have a "symbolic body" that is administered by large bureaucracies, the most
powerful of which is the state.
> Indeed, protection of our living
The Modern State is Biopolitical
In the introduction to his book Philosophy of Care
[https://www.versobooks.com/books/3951-philosophy-of-care] Boris Groys
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Groys] says:
> Foucault was right when he described modern states as biopolitical. Their main
function is to take care of the physical well-being of their populations.
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
[https://inform.transistor.fm/episodes/inform-046-why-do-people-enjoy-hating-freud-so-much]
. More recently, I found this great bit of text in Janet Malcolm
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Malcolm]'s The Purloined Clinic
Legible Desires & the Other
OMG. This week is kicking my ass, and I'm super tired. Be that as it may. I'm
still reading (at this point, it is re-reading, again and again) The Invention
of the Partner
[https://www.thelacanianreviews.com/the-invention-of-the-partner/] by
Jacques-Alain Miller. I have thoughts. I don&
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
[www.surplusjouissance.com/miller-on-desire-v-drive], today I'm focusing on what
the text has to say about the connection between jouissance and the drive.
> There is jouissance and at
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 to the short text The Invention of the Partner
[https://www.thelacanianreviews.com/the-invention-of-the-partner/],
Jacques-Alain Miller [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Alain_Miller].
What I want to look at this