Nin on writing
From The Novel of the Future by Anaïs Nin.
I think we should always write about what we know, or what we wish to know.
Hell yeah!
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 the void
I found the passage below in this paper by Éric Laurent.
In the seminar on The Object of Psychoanalysis, he took up the first sentences from his first Seminar on the action of the Zen master: “Everyone knows, though one does not know what it means, that a Zen exercise
Dark Matter
From this thread on Reddit:
Basically all we know about dark matter is that it is responsible for binding galaxies together despite their high rate of rotation. If it were just the gravity from visible matter holding galaxies together, they would fly apart at their current rate of rotation. There’
A new “Hello world!”
From The Journal 1837-1861 by Henry David Thoreau.
Oct. 22 [1837] "What are you doing now?" he asked. "Do you keep a journal?" So I make my first entry to-day.
I propose this become the standard first blog post instead of “Hello world!”
Dark matter as information
From Warren Ellis’s Orbital Operations email newsletter:
I’d tripped over an article somewhere that suggests that dark matter is the fifth form of matter, and the fifth form of matter is information. It’s everywhere but invisible because it’s cold, inert information storage stuck to the fabric
Between Generations.
From the post Best Days on Jack Cheng’s blog, where he is writing g about becoming a parent.
[I realized] that I am now in between generations. My sense of time is eroding beneath my feet. The scope of my life feels, suddenly, both broader and narrower than before.
On going on
From A Single Man, by Christopher Isherwood.
The creature we are watching will struggle on and on until it drops. Not because it is heroic. It can imagine no alternative (p. 10).
I like these sentences. They are simple, and they seem so truth to me as I read them.
Story as carrier of other things
From the July 20th post on Ganzeer Today:
Story is carrier wave for philosophical pondering, parable, moral compass tuning, and factual knowledge. Drama is, for the most part, a really great delivery system.
Vincente Palomera on Symptom v. Drive
Continuing to read from the essay What May I Expect From Psychoanalysis? by Vicente Palomera, which I posted about earlier this week.
Links
On page 6 of the document, under the heading Symptom and Repression, Palomera points out that the symptom and the drive are separate phenomena.
The symptom is
A path
From L’étourdit (1972), ‘A Bilingual Presentation of the First Turn’ Summer 2009, via Lacan in Ireland.
One can discourse in a thousand ways about the analyst. Rightly or
wrongly. And if it is wrongly (which never fails to be the case), it is better
to traverse its impasses and