I'm relaunching my podcast under a new Name: Speaking Body. More at speakingbody.substack.com.

Sunday morning reading. #Lacan

I'm testing out the Croissant app, to see if it would work for posting/cross-posting to both Bluesky & Mastodon. I like that they offer a one-time payment for lifetime access.

Desire is what keeps you from “going too far.” Jouissance is what happens when you do. #Lacan #jouissance #desire #psychoanalysis

This is what I’m thinking as I re-read the first two chapters of Lacan’s Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The way Lacan uses the term “moral” is tied to what would be socially acceptable or endorsed. This is opposed to ethics which Lacan links to a singular & idiosyncratic desire.

From @craigmod.com’s Things Become Other things event at Bookends & Beginnings in Evanston yesterday, which was a very fun event.

Recently, I had a conversation with somebody who is interested in psychoanalysis and Lacan where I was asked if I could explain the destination between the drive and jouissance Here is my attempt to describe how I think about that destination…

I’m a sucker for a good time travel story and right now, I’m reading “On theCalculation of Volume (Vil. 1), by Solvej Blake. I’m half way through it, and I think not is one of the most interesting time travel stories I’ve encountered. www.ndbooks.com/book/on-the-...

Talking to AI about Lacan: a cautionary tale. www.surplusjouissance.com/claude-ais-m...

Looking at the design of @jamesreeves.co’s website makes me feel impressed and jealous. www.jamesreeves.co

So it looks like Sam Altman & Jony Ive are going to team up to make something, but no one knows what. My guess is it will be like TARS and CASE from the Christopher Nolan film Interstellar… but… with rounded edges?

For those who may be interested: I’ve started a podcast with my fellow Lacanian analyst Isolda Alvarez. The description is relaxed but serious conversations about Lacanian psychoanalysis and the way it affects/ is affected by) the imaginary, symbolic, & real today. lacaniancompass.transistor.fm

I've seen a few people post about the Lacanian way of formulating psychosis, and wanted to chime in with my understanding/articulation of how psychosis functions and how it might be treated clinically.

When psychoanalysis is working, one of the effects can be the analysand experiencing a shift from being captured by an assumed and unexamined fantasy to recognizing the fantasy as a fiction that that does not need to be imposed or enacted as it has thus far.

I'm spending a lot of time thinking about how psychoanalysis can move a person from being the subject of the unconscious to being able to witness the structures that have determined subjective experience. #Lacan #Lacanian #psychoanalysis

I’m reading text to getready for the Knotting Seminar of the Lacanian Compass & New Lacanian School tomorrow in New York.

I used to think people with kids were over reacting when cold/flu season came around. I was like, “Why are you freaking out so much?” Now, as a #parent of 4 #kids, when it’s cold/flu season, and one of my kids coughs, I’m like “Move the doomsday clock to one minute past midnight!”

Now, I’m pruning who I follow here… Bluesky (and other forms of social media) are windows onto the world, but we can control the view they show us, eh?

Over the past three days, I’ve managed to wrangle my email inbox(s) from hundreds of messages (83 new/unread) to eight emails (four new/unread). A small victory, but one that I felt worth enough to brag about with a post on Bluesky. #email #postmodern-living

This album is wonderful. #Listening

All these years later, this one always makes me laugh. #TheFarSide

From78 is a podcast about the subjective experience of time. Episode 013, the forth episode of the second season, went live today. share.transistor.fm/s/c2d0246f

Is anyone checking out izzzzi.net? It looks very interesting.

I’m doing a lot of teacher into Jacques-Alain Miller’s idea of the partner-symptom. Anyone know of good texts tha focus on this topic? #lacan #psychoanalysis

Listening to lots of múm. Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/4mw86... Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/artist/m%...

My wife and I had our fourth child (first daughter) yesterday. For me, these few days in the hospital exist as such a liminal space. I can sense the day-to-day rhythms and routines going outside of it, but I feel like I’m in a short reprieve from them. I also experience time differently…

I wrote up and did a short QTS podcast regarding thoughts on minimalism in general and my reaction to the idea, "Anything taken to the extreme can be complicated. And simplicity is no exception." www.surplusjouissance.com/minimalism-d...

I've got a project right at the finishing line. One more set of edits, and I think it will be good to go... It is tempting to try to push through this last round, but I've been going at it for so long that I know I need a break. Till tomorrow then.

I just released this episode of InForm:Podcast, where I speak with practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst Isolda Alverez about the way the aims of the psychoanalytic clinic have changed from Freud's time through Lacans and into the present day. share.transistor.fm/s/15abb053

@disquiet.bsky.social this may be of interest to you. www.surplusjouissance.com/the-body-is-...

A new post is up at [S][J][P] comparing speaking with one's body to playing a musical instrument. www.surplusjouissance.com/the-body-is-...

Things always start slow. Maybe tomorrow there will be more. quotidian.transistor.fm/subscribe

QTS-007 is up. A silly remark leads to a silly story about hypoallergenic dogs. This leads to a comparison of the Internet now to the Internet that existed from about 2000-2010. A discussion of an album that relaxes rather than sedates. share.transistor.fm/s/49c79e99

"The psychotic, [...] distinguishes himself in that he recognizes the foreign presence of this Other who speaks through him, who occasionally speaks to him and intrudes. In contrast, the neurotic ignores the fact that the Other speaks within him, he maintains the illusion that it is he who speaks."

Catching Ip in my RSS feed backlog, and i see that @colinwalker.blog is on blue sky. His blog is very cool, and more people should read it! colinwalker.blog

Writing about things that he would like to have more of in 2024, @disquiet.bsky.social of Disquiet named “liminality. This is something I think is (and has been) undervalued for a long time. It seems like a lot of people are figuring this out, and wanting to do things to increase liminal space...

Made another Qutodian Thins & Stuff Podcast (QTS-002). Making a podcast is fun when I don't get overly obsessed with production. www.surplusjouissance.com/quotidian-th...

I made this today: share.transistor.fm/s/d6aa4087

@philuebbing.bsky.social Hey! Long time no talk. How are things?

There is nowhere near enough time in my day to read all the things I want to read. Can't do it all. I've got to make choices about what is the most important... This is obvious, I know. Be that as it may, I felt like typing it out. Don't know why, but it makes me feel a bit better

Usually, at this time of the year, I'd be frantically trying to prep for the classes I would be teaching at the start of the Spring semester. But not this year... After going through the Fall 2023 semester trying to be (1) a parent to three small kids, (2) a psychoanalyst in private practice...

I've been spending a lot of time with Lacan's graph of desire. Over the years, I've returned to the graph repeatedly. At first, I could not make any sense of it. Today, after reading Lacan for more than 10 years, it makes a lot more sense to me. In particular, the top level of the graph...

I recently got to interview Rob Bell about his newest book, "Where'd You Park Your Spaceship." We talk about #psychoanalysis, dreams, talking to people who work in stores, surfing, and lots of other stuff too. inform.transistor.fm/episodes/inf...

For @disquiet.bsky.social

In NYC this weekend for the Knotting Seminar of the Lacanian Compass.

The things @craigmod.com does are such a pleasure to read/witness. I signed up for his forthcoming email newsletter about walking in Tokyo, and I’m looking forward to it hitting my inbox.

More fall on my walk this morning.

My 2 y/o child has turned the song Old McDonald into a weapon. It started when the family of five was in the car and he started to scream-sing it, as loud as he could, as we drove back from swimming lessons. Today, during his normal nap time, he was very tired, but did not want to sleep…

The Bridge, 1913 https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25489

Fall colors are showing.