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Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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  • So I stayed in the darkness with you

  • Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too

  • And you can’t fake it hard enough to please everyone or anyone at all

  • A pity. We were such a good and loving invention.

  • My work is loving the world

  • Lacan on the anxiety of love

  • Companions in the infinite rather than comfort animals

  • The fantasy of knowledge as attempt to foreclose otherness

  • New couples employ basically the same tactics that cults do

  • The Lacanian understanding of love

  • bell hooks on the difference between cathexis and love

  • There is always a missed understanding between people

  • Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take

  • That secret that you know but you don’t know how to tell

  • Put out my eyes, and I can see you still

  • One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for

  • “I love you and that painful decaying love is the only thing between you and the shrieking nothingness you live the rest of the day”

  • To love means to find oneself with a ridiculous object

  • The Lacanian distinction between love and romance

  • Hey chatbot, are you an object of fantasy for your users?

  • The disavowed uncertainty of Kierkegaard’s eternal love

  • Lacan on Love: An Interview with Bruce Fink

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

  • “You turned into who you are? I did too”: the love letters of Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blücher

  • That is the punishment for having fed love on imagination

  • Our own half-articulate need to become a new person, one whom we as yet lack words to describe

  • What does it mean to be partners-in-freedom?

  • The man instead of seeking a kind of…

  • CfP: Love and Relationships in the Media

  • My first crush

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