'The Lacanian Teacher. Education, Pedagogy and Enjoyment.' Out in July with the Palgrave Lacan Series link.springer.com/book/9783031...

Essential read on how technology is eroding our sense of intuition, touch, memory, place, time, reality and human experience in general. Highly recommend.

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We mark one hundred (!) episodes of Ordinary Unhappiness with some personal reflections followed by a mailbag that raises the eternal question: What Do Listeners Want? Spoiler: it's Lacan, Marxism, and drugs (plus other things) 🥳🎂 🎉 www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

Get yourself a study group where you don't have to pretend to know anything.

After 19 months, we "finished" Bion's Transformations today.

Even beyond the threat of nuclear warfare, I think, the ecological crisis is the greatest threat mankind collectively has ever faced. Harold Searles, Unconscious Processes in Relation to the Environmental Crisis, 1972

I really did not have talking to Bion's son on my bingo card.

Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, The Third Unconscious, 2021

As the genocide escalates, I'm seeing videos of entire families being wiped out, charred bodies of children, decapitations and other atrocities on a daily basis from Gaza. I cannot trust any US political leader who can't acknowledge our role in this and isn't trying to stop it.

experience: 1) Latin, 'experientia': an experiment, knowledge gained by repeated trials 2) Latin, 'peritus': related to peril, meaning risk, jeopardy, or danger

Avgi Saketopoulou, The Risk of Analysis

Stupidity is the deconstructive ferment that inhabits the heart of intelligence. Catherine Malabou

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tomorrow!

If you're a psychoanalyst and appalled by the silence from psychoanalytic institutes and organizations, you can sign here: docs.google.com/document/u/1...

Adam Phillips, On Not Being Taught

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 3

Winnicott on drone sightings: ". . . in the rules of the game we all know that we will never challenge the baby to elicit an answer to the question: did you create that or did you find it?"

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 2

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 1 #booksky #books

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 We're joined by the inimitable Simon Critchley to talk mysticism, ecstatic experience, aesthetic pleasure, and why having a self can be such a drag. Enjoy! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

Doppelganger by @naomiaklein.bsky.social was excellent. Analyzes the current political moment through the vertex of the doppelgangers, mirror worlds, and shadow lands. A societal and personal case study of projection and disavowal. Highly recommend.

we made this week's @theguardian.com!!!

Profound sense of unreality when you look at transphobes claims. I don't know why I find the case so striking, but the gap between the lovable band of awkward nerds who constitute the trans people I know vs the civilisation ending threat to life as we know it they're presented as is quite something.

Phillips to Avgi: "What do you hate about psychoanalysis?" A rare kind of playful jousting and intellectual flirting between two thoughtful psychoanalysts by @redclinic.bsky.social. Each person always expanding the conversation in new directions. Highly recommend. youtu.be/9RdcWbyP9qM?...

Bion, Learning from Experience:

Milestone/Open Thread Celebrating 2-year anniversary of “Psychiatry at the Margins” and 10K subscribers www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/milestoneo...

So psychoanalyst Joyce Slochower, whose work I respect, is doing a seminar on nonsexual friendships with analysands post-termination. I was surprised to see this actually so it's kind of concerning and kind of intriguing, tbh.

“You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.” ― Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1951

Are we filling space or feeling space?

open.spotify.com/episode/0vu6... For all you Adorno fans out there come learn about your free time under capitalism, Adornian autonomy, and why you shouldn’t have “hobbies” (I guess 🤷🏾)

Polite enough to mask the word fuck, but can't bother to mask the genocide.

Every AI product or application advertised on TV opens with the premise, "you, hog that you are, are very obviously too stupid to write even a brief email. Well great news, asshole." Thank you for solving all the problems I have doing basic stuff with your application that does them weirder/worse!

Check it out. Low and free psychoanalytically-oriented therapy by phone.

RIP Donna Orange

Who wants to buy me The Complete Works of Wilfred R. Bion?

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces full well affrights me. Pascal

Evolution of Psychoanalytic Technique Syllabus: bit.ly/EOTech2

Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams. Seems relevant.

Loewald and the 'blood of recognition'...

The unconscious is the true psychical reality; in its innermost nature it is as most unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is as incompletely presented by the data of consciousness as is the external world by the communications of our sense organs. Freud

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