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In Defense of Theory
In a blog that I deeply respect, Marginal Utility, Rob Horning writes of Theory Cults and particularly about how the “Cult of Lacan” functioned in his comparitive-literature seminars during graduate...
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On Shame, or the Proof of the Other’s Inexistence
In analysis, one of the most frustrating questions an analyst can ask is: “Yes, I know that’s what you are saying, but is it really that way, or is what you are saying more of a wish?” Or, I know that...
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Captured in the Image: Cynicism and Culture Jamming
We used to read the news like a Dadaist — piecing together the seemingly random series of signifiers to reveal an underlying or deeper truth. In this disarray and slanted piecing together of phrases,...
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The Hysteric-Obsessional Dialectic in True Detective
“This world is a veil. And the face you wear is not your own.” Preacher Joe Theriot In one of the most telling lines in True Detective, Cohle says to Hart, “you’re obsessed, just not with your work.”...
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From Shame to Love: The Politics of Hamlet. Interview with Simon Critchley
I recently interviewed the philosopher Simon Critchely on his new book, (co-written with his wife and psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster) entitled, The Hamlet Doctrine: Knowing Too Much, Doing Nothing for...
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Mourning, Psychoanalysis, and the Death of Adulthood
The widely read essay by A.O. Scott, “The Death of Adulthood in American Culture” argues pretty convincingly that the changing heroes and anti-heroes of contemporary television provide a glimpse into a...
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The Queen Mob’s Teahouse
My first post as a blogger for the new webzine Queen Mob’s Teahouse is here. I wrote about the affect of shame in Lacan. This is a fun and creative […]
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Affects and Lacanian Theology
One of the more admirable aspects of Colette Soler’s work is her allegiance to theological concepts, which we should remember, Lacan himself took very seriously. In Lacanian Affects: The Function of...
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Mehdi Belhaj Kacem: A Catharsis of Pleonexia
Mehdi Belhaj Kacem is a highly enigmatic thinker: an autodidact in the history of philosophy, a well known actor in French cinema and self-proclaimed anti-philosopher who had a major public break with...
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Our Study Groups in Psychoanalysis and Politics is pleased to invite you to join our next seminar series with the psychoanalyst and artist Bracha Ettinger. We’re very grateful that Bracha has agreed to...
View ArticlePseudo aggression, Contradiction, Ideology
This is a fairly ambitious post. Here I attempt to show how the theory of neurosis developed by the early psychoanalyst Edmund Bergler, particularly his theory of pseudo aggression or aggression that...
View ArticlePreface and Key Concepts from my book Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the...
My book Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family has been published. This book came together over the course of many years of study in the Lacanian…… Read more "Preface and Key Concepts from my...
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