• The psychoticizing potential of social media

• A sketch of the psychodynamics of LLMs

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

• The crushing banality of AI-play

• A Lacanian analysis of asexuality

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

• 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

• Something will always be lacking

• A Lacanian analysis of addiction

• We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand

• 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

• New couples employ basically the same tactics that cults do

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

• The Lacanian understanding of love

• The lost sociotechnical ailments of writers

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

• There is always a missed understanding between people

• The friendly face of objet petit a

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

• On getting what you want

• The libidinal economy of symbolisation

• The psyche is intrinsically constituted by its relation to infinity

• The privilege of escaping from the Twittering Machine

• 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

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

• An example of how GAI hallucinations can be generative

• We are not whole and we never will be

• Not giving up on your own desire

• Lacan psychologically abused at least one trans patient in front of his students

• “neologistic excess is an abuse of language that turns thought into a pile of words, into delirium”

• “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 enjoyment of turmoil

• 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

• 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?

• The will to create from zero

• Lacanian reflections on productivity culture

• The metonymy of desire

• Five thoughts about combining sociological reflexivity and psychoanalysis

• On temporising

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

• 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

• A lost wholeness which we imagine we can recover

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

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

• Mania as the malfunctioning object a

• Using Google’s Gemini to talk about Lacan

• Lacan’s concept of symbolic castration and political authority

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

• ChatGPT as the Big Other: the imagined limitlessness of knowledge

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

• Maybe there is some fucking magic in giving language to hidden things

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

• The Borromean Knot of Jacques Lacan; Or, How to Beat Your Death Drive

• What happens when we can’t stay on the stage any longer?

• Disavowal as a scholarly habit

• Derek Hook on diagnosis in Lacan

• A Lacanian spin on Margaret Archer’s concept of contextual incongruity: the meta-reflexive as hysteric

• Epistemic relativism and the escape from the real

• The Lacan gang

• The existentialist Lacan

• Current mood in AI generated images #45

• The book scene from The Remains of the Day

• Lacan tried to save the subject from structuralism

• A Tour of Lacan’s Graph of Desire

• Lacan vs the situationist heckler (1972)

• The sensory pleasure of ideas and the displaced joys of academic life

• Lacan on the biographical momentum of partial objects

• Why do buildings feel the way they do for us?

• Does anyone actually understand Lacan’s diagrams?

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

• The evident satisfaction with which cats inhabit their skins

• Where Lacanian psychoanalysis meets Buddhism

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

• The capacity of the algorithm to create monsters

• A Lacanian approach to ChatGPT

• Nothing is more entertaining than fucking with words and their arrangement

• The ontology of the unconscious

• The disavowed uncertainty of Kierkegaard’s eternal love

• “Well, given that we’re screwed in all of these conceivable ways, what would you want to do? Not, what do you have to do to survive, or appease the Other, but what would you just want?”

• The Lacanian theory of trauma

• Visualising The Real

• The unconscious as overflowing with other people’s desires

• When-I-finally get hold of objet petit a

• We are what we care about, we are what we lack

• Lacan on Love: An Interview with Bruce Fink

• The Lacanian Left, Self-Help, and the Family