• 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

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

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

• The difference between what we want and what we think we want: some thoughts on the Lacanian concept of drive

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

• Lacan on the biographical momentum of partial objects

• On not getting what we want