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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.

Drive v. Instincts in Psychoanalytic Theory

Much has been made about the stupid decision to translate instinkt and Trieb into the English word instinct. One of the main effects is this translation error is that it creates and maintains a misunderstanding of what drive is and what makes drive different from instincts. In The Invention of

Montaigne | The Essays, Book II, Essay 1.

I've been kind of passively reading the Complete Essays of Michel de Montaigne [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/montaigne/]. I found this bit to be very in line with the psychoanalytic idea of the unconscious contradictory subjectivity being more powerful than our conscious attempts to adhere to a

Durable Unconcious v. Transient Consciousness

More from the essay Dora by Janet Malcolm [https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Janet+Malcolm&crid=13WSY105TB697&sprefix=janet+malcolm%2Caps%2C100&ref=nb_sb_noss_1] , the first essay in The Purloined Clinic [https://www.amazon.com/Purloined-Clinic-Selected-Writings/dp/0679748105/ref=sr_1_1?crid=

Intellectual Life as Specialized Craftsmanship

From a New York Magazine profile on Adam Tooze [https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/adam-tooze-profile.html], where the years Tooze spent at university are described. > With its entrenched traditions and exacting, unquestionable standards, the Cambridge approach to pedagogy makes intellectual life a kind of specialized craftsmanship. After I read

The End of Analysis | Making Nonsense of Our Neurosis

The quote below appears in the essay Dora by Janet Malcolm [https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Janet+Malcolm&crid=13WSY105TB697&sprefix=janet+malcolm%2Caps%2C100&ref=nb_sb_noss_1] , which is the first essay in The Purloined Clinic [https://www.amazon.com/Purloined-Clinic-Selected-Writings/dp/0679748105/

Some Notes on Algorithms | For a Presentation I'll Give Next Month

I'm working on a short presentation that I'll give next month at the monthly member's meeting of the Lacanian Compass [https://www.lacaniancompass.com/]. The point of the presentation will be to present a potential new discourse which I'm calling the discourse

Ride a Bus & Get University Course Credits?!

Yesterday I posted about the chapter, Everyone Longs for a Master: Lacan and 1968 [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230250857_7] by Stephen Frosh [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230250857_7#auth-Stephen-Frosh]. I got my hands on a (digital) version of the book this chapter is

Some thoughts on teaching about Lacan's Object (petit) a

One of the books I use in a class I'm teaching this semester is The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves [https://www.amazon.com/Examined-Life-Lose-Find-Ourselves/dp/0393349322/ref=sr_1_1?crid=TFUBG95CEF5U&keywords=stephen+grosz+s+the+examined+life&qid=1648554225&

Different Kinds of Revolutionary Movements

Over the past weekend, I've been able to continue my research into the connections/relationships between civilization, the state, and psychoanalysis I found something I think is interesting in an abstract for a chapter in a book [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230250857_7]. > Lacan

Validation of Perception with Paranoia

I came across something interesting this morning. > [W]e offer a conceptualization of psychotic states [...] With emphasis on failures of archaic self object ties in the specific function of validation of perception. [1] This quote is from a book by psychoanalysts outside the Lacanian orientation (which is the orientation