• To what extent is ketamine shaping the culture of Silicon Valley?

• Lacan tried to save the subject from structuralism

• A Tour of Lacan’s Graph of Desire

• Lacan vs the situationist heckler (1972)

• What I really need is to be clear about what I am to do

• Lacan on the biographical momentum of partial objects

• What is there in this which is intolerable and past bearing?

• My analyst looked up briefly.

• Āditta Sutta – The Fire Sermon

• Does anyone actually understand Lacan’s diagrams?

• What’s the use of starting if you must stop?

• The moral economy of automaticity: sociological and psychoanalytical perspectives

• What does it mean to be composed?

• The future’s not what it used to be

• The agonies of humiliation involved in submitting to contigency

• I can’t steal you

• Turning ghosts into ancestors

• The bodily foundation of selfhood: from appetite to breathing

• The inner adult and the inner child

• The hungry ghosts

• Gabor Maté on grieving as compassionate inquiry

• Whenever we speak, we are unconditionally asking to be heard

• Theorising permanent instability and volatility as necessary rather than contingent features of the environment

• Where Lacanian psychoanalysis meets Buddhism

• CfP: The future of conspiracy scholarship: New epistemologies and imaginaries

• Bhaskar’s concept of ‘present-moment awareness’

• Lauren Berlant on the couple form’s own ordinary dangers

• Erfahrung: conspiracies, baking and the return of the repressed

• The power of giving language to hidden things

• A few thoughts about the difficulty of living a reparative life

• Societal collapse is a process rather an event

• Lacan’s ‘objet a’: you still haven’t found what you’re looking for (and you’re never going to)

• Why are conspiracy theories coalescing into a heterogenous world view?

• Nick Cave on the importance of humility in a bizarre and temporary world

• Shock as a narrative vacuum

• It’s all in the game though, right?

• The ethical paralysis facing millennials

• Charles Taylor on the Four Modes of Modern Seeking

• Overcome difficulties by multiplying them

• What if those who lap up the eschatological enthusiasms of Left Behind and QAnon are in many cases survivors of their own chronic and acute disasters?

• To be traumatized is to be unable to innovate, or improvise, or surprise oneself

• A Lacanian approach to ChatGPT

• The ontology of the unconscious

• “I try not to look ahead at the moment. If I don’t look ahead I don’t worry”

• The disavowed uncertainty of Kierkegaard’s eternal love

• Social platforms as a machine for generating apophenia

• What happens when we all become vulnerable?

• “Well, given that we’re screwed in all of these conceivable ways, what would you want to do? Not, what do you have to do to survive, or appease the Other, but what would you just want?”

• Cliodynamics and social collapse

• The ‘decided desire’ of the post-analysis neurotic

• The Lacanian theory of trauma

• Visualising The Real

• The unconscious as overflowing with other people’s desires

• When-I-finally get hold of objet petit a

• We are what we care about, we are what we lack

• Lacan on Love: An Interview with Bruce Fink

• The Lacanian Left, Self-Help, and the Family

• ChatGPT: analyse Margaret Archer’s four modes of reflexivity in terms of Lacanian theory

• Theorising as a psychodynamic process

• Walking in the air

• The living dead of obsessive habit

• Our past changes as our future unfolds

• What is a ‘quilting-point’ in Lacanian theory?

• Love is giving something you don’t have to someone who doesn’t want it

• The hidden treasure that turns an ordinary thing into a radiant prize

• Salvaging humanism in an era of ubiquitous generative AI

• On not getting what we want

• What would the young Slavoj Žižek think of the old Slavoj Žižek?

• Simone Weil’s apophatic concept of attention

• The accumulation of crises in comics

• Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination

• On losing what we never possessed

• “There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it” 

• The “when-I-finally” mindset

• Fantasy tells me what I am to my others

• Rilke on the single urgent task: to reach out with joy

• Gabor Mate’s definition of addiction

• On walking at dusk

• To fail as a human being is to accept somebody else’s description of oneself

• Our own half-articulate need to become a new person, one whom we as yet lack words to describe

• An accelerationist response to generative AI

• Internal conversation and repression

• Escaping the crystallised pattern of our personal system

• In defence of thinking in a speculative way

• Every discomfort is only an abortive metaphysical experience

• What it is like to be mistreated as an object, without having the capacity to assume the position of subject

• The metaverse and the next pandemic

• The tension between attachment and authenticity

• Post-horror and the epistemic chaos of platform capitalism

• Nick Cave on extending a hand to assist the world

• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on creativity and routine

• On waiting for something to happen

• The concept of cathexis

• Gabor Maté on the reality expressed through depression

• Irvine Welsh on angst, addiction and writing

• What is trauma?

• John Stuart Mill on libidinal collapse: some thoughts on socialisation and human purpose

• Choose life: some notes on Lacan’s death drive

• Jouissance: Enjoying in the margins

• I’m a lifeless face that you’ll soon forget