• The murdering of possibility to regulate our suffering

• Is there a psychoanalytical concept for how one frustration can be a synecdoche for frustration as such?

• Why do we want what we want?

• Who we are arises from how we have been hurt

• The realist concept of concern and the Lacanian concept of desire

• The utter banality of getting what you fantasise about

• Living on the Other’s time

• An abundance of knowledge obliterates the lack which generates desire

• René Girard as reductive Lacanianism

• Lacan on the anxiety of love

• What is the objet petit a for aspiring writers?

• 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

• The Lacanian understanding of love

• On getting what you want

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

• The psyche is intrinsically constituted by its relation to infinity

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

• Learning to enjoy your enjoyment

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

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

• Not giving up on your own desire

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

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

• Why I find the Lacanian concept of desire so fascinating

• To love means to find oneself with a ridiculous object

• The metonymy of desire

• We were always waiting for something to happen

• A lost wholeness which we imagine we can recover

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

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

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

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

• Current mood in AI generated images #45

• A Tour of Lacan’s Graph of Desire

• Lacan on the biographical momentum of partial objects

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

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

• On not getting what we want

• Post-Pandemic Hedonism: Thoughts on Mark Fisher’s Final Book