• What is happening when we desire to watch or read something?

• Expanding the very possibilities of being

• A properly ethical attitude must risk an encounter with the unsettling real of the other’s being

• The power of the signifier: why the power up sign is actually doing something real

• Olivia Laing on recovery

• What was, simply was what it was, it had to be that way

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

• The voluntaristic streak in Mari Ruti’s psychoanalytical art of living

• Do I discover the Thing’s glow or do I place it there?

• 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

• Heidegger on Lacan: “It seems to me the psychiatrist needs a psychiatrist”

• Psychoanalysis and infrastructure

• Is a sense of existential fullness always a fantasy?

• The absence of God becomes the silence between two notes, the empty space that gave resonance to the music

• The influence of Kojève on Lacan

• Unrequited meaning

• 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?