• Freud on the psychic rewards of sublimation

• The violence of writing

• LLMs and crystallisation as a form of object relating

• Winnicott’s distinction between the true self and the false self

• Writing revives the self yet demands the self’s surrender

• Melancholia and creativity

• Mari Ruti on the (psychoanalytically informed) art of living well

• Nietzsche and Nick Cave

• “I will not relinquish the bliss of the written word”

• Glow

• Human concern as the interface between realist sociology and psychoanalysis

• Psychological wellbeing as choosing your own symptom

• The voluntaristic streak in Mari Ruti’s psychoanalytical art of living

• The jouissance of writing

• Life asks us to mourn each passing incarnation of the self

• Do I discover the Thing’s glow or do I place it there?

• Why do we want what we want?

• Who we are arises from how we have been hurt