• Our conception of the lifeworld needs the mundane as much as it needs the dramatic

• The street art I saw and the street art which was really there

• Nick Cave on becoming a person

• Obsessional neurosis as private religion and the mediation of collective reflexivity by the internet

• Learning to enjoy your enjoyment

• What is sexual attraction? Some Lacanian thoughts on asexuality studies

• An example of how GAI hallucinations can be generative

• Claude, write me a Lacanian analysis of Jehnny Beth’s I’m The Man

• We are not whole and we never will be

• How to enjoy writing #23: be clear about why you are writing

• Not giving up on your own desire

• The conventionally handsome professional man who stalks ChatGPT’s unconscious

• I had a dream, I got everything I ever wanted. But if I’m really honest it might have been a nightmare

• How to enjoy writing #19: not everything you write has to become something

• How to enjoy writing #18: understand where the ideas which influence you come from

• Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate

• Hegel’s account of the righteous violence of education

• A Lacanian reading of digital elites

• Lacan psychologically abused at least one trans patient in front of his students

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #88

• On finding the words that work

• “neologistic excess is an abuse of language that turns thought into a pile of words, into delirium”

• “I’m behind with everything I’ve got to do before dying and I’m finding it difficult to make progress”

• The difference between what we want and what we think we want: some thoughts on the Lacanian concept of drive

• My favourite Claude character yet: the Lacanian psychoanalyst who packed it in to become a motivational influencer

• The beautiful problem of the value of life

• The enjoyment of turmoil

• How to enjoy writing #2: placing limits on your writing

• Capaciousness as a sociological category

• The Nietzschean Midday: Lacanian thoughts on the continual moment of possibility

• Molecules of fascism”: the ‘Red Pill’ as Antidepressant

• Why I find the Lacanian concept of desire so fascinating

• To love means to find oneself with a ridiculous object

• One monograph on GenAI later and Claude now figures prominently in my intellectual lifeworld. I’m realising how much that unsettles some people

• Freud did not consistently use topological metaphors to describe psychic structure

• I do not refute ideals, I merely put on gloves before them

• The Lacanian distinction between love and romance

• What is fascism in the 2020s?

• In defence of optimism

• Breaking up with oneself

• On trauma and forgetting

• The Skyfall Effect: The Fantasy of the State’s Technologised Competence

• Judith Butler’s notion of the phantasmatic scene and the epistemic chaos of platforms

• The will to create from zero

• Lacanian reflections on productivity culture

• The metonymy of desire

• Five thoughts about combining sociological reflexivity and psychoanalysis

• On temporising

• Articulating what is latent is easier then articulating what is repressed

• Trying too hard is symptomatic of a mind divided

• The enshittification of Grindr and the coming wave of platform addiction

• “I find, just now at least, the world a pleasant and exciting place”

• The Cruel Optimist, by Claude

• The end is where we start from

• What if the night of your soul didn’t split you from yourself, others, and the world but, on the contrary, most intimately got you in touch with it?

• We were always waiting for something to happen

• From art to entertainment to distraction to addiction

• Would you be interested in a workshop about psychoanalysis and the sociotechnical?

• A lost wholeness which we imagine we can recover

• Thought experiment: if society turned up in the Lacanian clinic seeking treatment, what would the diagnosis be?

• An infinite scream passing through nature

• Are people paranoid about LLMs?

• On AI therapy

• The silent inner world

• The chatbot Rorschach test part 1

• Codependency as Team Neurosis

• Behavioural scientists were the lay preachers of late neoliberalism

• Judith Butler’s engagement with psychoanalysis

• Intuition as social theory

• What’s the opposite of flourishing? Languishing

• How often do you interrupt yourself?

• On stopping when you’ve still got something to say

• Hey chatbot, are you an object of fantasy for your users?

• When you get what you want, you cannot want it anymore because you already have it

• There are too many identity labels being circulated too quickly

• Mania as the malfunctioning object a

• How common is counter-plagiarism within social theory?

• Using Google’s Gemini to talk about Lacan

• Lacan’s concept of symbolic castration and political authority

• Well, given that we’re screwed in all of these conceivable ways, what would you want to do?

• Is digital distraction the 21st century equivalent of neurathemia?

• A dramatisation of Freud’s Dora and Frau K

• Psychoanalysis as literary tradition

• Lacan’s twelve-fold typology of desire: a case study of Elena Tonra’s Romance

• ChatGPT as the Big Other: the imagined limitlessness of knowledge

• Making ghosts into ancestors

• We cannot do all things, become proficient in all areas, or master all fields

• Maybe there is some fucking magic in giving language to hidden things

• The Borromean Knot of Jacques Lacan; Or, How to Beat Your Death Drive

• The days are reeling past in such squealing blasts

• What happens when we can’t stay on the stage any longer?

• Derek Hook on diagnosis in Lacan

• The psychodynamics of the post-left

• A Lacanian spin on Margaret Archer’s concept of contextual incongruity: the meta-reflexive as hysteric

• Epistemic relativism and the escape from the real

• The myth of the ‘perfectly analysed’ person

• “I feel like I’m gaining some kind of power by expelling all of my inner thoughts and secrets to people in rooms”

• The Lacan gang

• The existentialist Lacan

• The book scene from The Remains of the Day