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The Revolution as Semblant

I recorded an episode of the InForm: Podcast [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/tag/inform/]with Jason & Chris from the Regrettable Century [https://regrettablecentury.buzzsprout.com/]earlier today. Part of that conversation was about how revolutionary politics could be what Lacanians call a semblance. I did not have this on

Speaking at the right moment

I've been doing some work to get ready for some teaching I'm going to be doing in the fall. Part of that work leads me to re-read The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Écrits (pp. 671-702 in the English edition)

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+

InForm | On psychoanalysis for people who don't know they can have it

INTRO: On this episode of the InForm: Podcast I talk with psychoanalyst Michael McAndrews who practices out in Colorado. Michael's practice is unique for several reasons. The first is that he provides psychoanalysis to people who normally would not have the ability to afford mental health services. The

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

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

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=