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Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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

  • Is a sense of existential fullness always a fantasy?

  • The inevitability and irreversibility of loss

  • What is the objet petit a for aspiring writers?

  • The friendly face of objet petit a

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

  • 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 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” 

  • What have we lost in the accelerated academy?

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