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Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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  • Expanding the very possibilities of being

  • Olivia Laing on recovery

  • 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

  • Something will always be lacking

  • The unpredictable, unfathomable point of decision

  • Will Claude tell you if your writing is crap? The danger of LLMs for wounded academic writers

  • New couples employ basically the same tactics that cults do

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

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

  • There is always a missed understanding between people

  • The psyche is intrinsically constituted by its relation to infinity

  • We are not whole and we never will be

  • The metonymy of desire

  • Trying too hard is symptomatic of a mind divided

  • A lost wholeness which we imagine we can recover

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

  • Mania as the malfunctioning object a

  • How common is counter-plagiarism within social theory?

  • Understanding concepts by tracing their journey through the theory/practice nexus

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

  • A Lacanian approach to ChatGPT

  • The disavowed uncertainty of Kierkegaard’s eternal love

  • The Lacanian theory of trauma

  • Visualising The Real

  • The unconscious as overflowing with other people’s desires

  • Lacan on Love: An Interview with Bruce Fink

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