• 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

• 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

• On finding the words that work

• “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

• 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

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

• Trying too hard is symptomatic of a mind divided

• The Cruel Optimist, by Claude

• 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

• 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?

• Codependency as Team Neurosis

• Behavioural scientists were the lay preachers of late neoliberalism

• Judith Butler’s engagement with psychoanalysis

• Intuition as social theory

• 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

• 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

• A dramatisation of Freud’s Dora and Frau K

• Psychoanalysis as literary tradition