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  • 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

  • Walking in the air

  • How can ChatGPT be used to support learning theory?

  • The living dead of obsessive habit

  • Our past changes as our future unfolds

  • What is a ‘quilting-point’ in Lacanian theory?

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

  • The hidden treasure that turns an ordinary thing into a radiant prize

  • On not getting what we want

  • On losing what we never possessed

  • “There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it” 

  • Fantasy tells me what I am to my others

  • Choose life: some notes on Lacan’s death drive

  • Jouissance: Enjoying in the margins

  • The Psychoanalytics of Temporising

  • In defence of Jacques Lacan (sort of)

  • The Psychopathology of Jacques Lacan or, Why Can’t Theorists Just Say What They Mean!??

  • Noam Chomsky Calls Postmodern Critiques of Science Over-Inflated “Polysyllabic Truisms”

  • The Empty ‘Posturing’ of Žižek and Lacan?

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