• Creative thinking as mushroom picking: a sketch of a psychoanalytical account of thinking-through-writing

• People who dislike the area where they live are in a sad state of disrepair

• Demystifying the unconscious: building the meshwork in everyday life

• We shall always linger on in our former houses

• How do cultural objects change who we are?

• Internal conversation as a form of object relating

• What is a ‘true self’ and what is a ‘false self’?

• An epoch approaching extinction while something new is straining to evolve

• “Think of life as an open wound, which you poke with a stick to amuse yourself”

• The psychoticizing potential of social media

• A sketch of the psychodynamics of LLMs

• There are no grown-ups, that’s what you must grow up to know fully

• The jouissance of spleen, or, bitter cold wind whispers my name

• Where I end and you begin

• A Lacanian analysis of asexuality

• At some point you had to pick a direction and start swimming: the philosophical anthropology of commitment

• The neurotic individual and the group

• Is there a middle ground between bourgeois theory and avant-garde theory?

• When Lacan came to America

• Living on the Other’s time

• Revisiting poststructuralist approaches to language in order to understand how we live and work with LLMs: the Pikachu Capybara effect

• The inevitability and irreversibility of loss

• The Covid-19 pandemic as a social mechanism driving biographical change

• Something will always be lacking

• A Lacanian analysis of addiction

• The jouissance of the new far right

• Gen Z Reform voters who are sympathetic to Corbyn. Or, the jouissance of Nigel Farage

• We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand

• The unpredictable, unfathomable point of decision

• “You’re in charge of your life, you can do more than you are doing. Let’s see where it takes you”

• The risk of (enshittified) LLMs for mental health

• Why do I write? The question generative AI implicitly poses to us

• The epistemopathic dimension of writing with LLMs

• Generative AI and the Anxieties of Academic Writing

• On being a mystery to ourselves

• Plants and animals don’t fight the winter

• An abundance of knowledge obliterates the lack which generates desire

• The growing popularity of cults in a transient, fragmented state of contemporary society

• Zupančič: How to live a life worth living

• René Girard as reductive Lacanianism

• Hope is essential to our survival and our flourishing

• Lacan lecturing in English: Of Structure as an Inmixing of an Otherness Prerequisite to any Subject whatever

• The anxiety of individualisation

• Lacan on the anxiety of love

• Companions in the infinite rather than comfort animals

• The fantasy of knowledge as attempt to foreclose otherness

• The social imaginary of middle class 90s kids

• Music can grip us with the energy of a religious conversion. Once it is heard, one never experiences the world in quite the same way

• New couples employ basically the same tactics that cults do

• Every time you make a decision you confront your symbolic castration

• We who are your closet friends feel the time has come to tell you that every Thursday we have been meeting as a group

• Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises: a dialogue with Claude 3.5 about an incomplete book project

• We can’t escape the trap of desire, but we can approach that trap with greater poise

• Automatic writing with image generators

• The Lacanian understanding of love

• bell hooks on the difference between cathexis and love

• Epidemiological self-consciousness and the suddenly countercultural status of the sovereign individual

• Liberal conspiracism and the parts of the psyche that media literacy training doesn’t touch

• A symptom isn’t a symptom until it’s reflexively recognised as such by the analysand

• It seems, as one becomes older, that the past has another pattern

• There is always a missed understanding between people

• All trauma is preverbal

• The wayward temporality of psychic life

• The friendly face of objet petit a

• Burdened by the image of an unalienated future, one finds oneself fleeing from existence itself

• That secret that you know but you don’t know how to tell

• Fling the emptiness in your arms out into the spaces we breathe

• The best resource on Lacan I’ve encountered so far

• Words strain, crack and sometimes break under the burden

• Those whom we transform into myth are themselves myth-ridden

• Seeing my response under the new description allows me to experience it in a new way

• I’ve been free associating with Claude 3 which is now enthusiastically free associating back to me

• How to free associate

• The more I consider the world, the more I realize that it’s supposed to have a cohesion that no longer exists

• On being sane in insane places

• I just discovered Therapist Reaction YouTube and I can’t stop watching it

• On getting what you want

• The moral force of attention and its psychic foundations

• Gillian Rose on the satisfaction of writing and the joyful agony of loving

• An affective and aesthetic fullness that can attach even to experiences of cognitive frustration

• “The demons in your head are real and you can kill them”

• Playing in the ruins of your past expectations

• The libidinal economy of symbolisation

• The psyche is intrinsically constituted by its relation to infinity

• The monster became self-conscious of its size and intoxicated by the belief in its own omnipotence

• You assumin’ I’m a human, what I gotta do to get it through to you I’m superhuman?

• Lacan on the trauma of birth

• Nothing can ever be beautiful enough to wipe out the traces of imperfections and faults

• “Mummy, I done an album!”: the excremental character of creative production

• 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

• 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

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