• I was convinced there was another sort of life waiting for me

• Julia Kristeva on the collapse of meaning into the unnameable

• Our pasts are a poem that we have to learn to recite

• Mari Ruti on the (psychoanalytically informed) art of living well

• Human concern as the interface between realist sociology and psychoanalysis

• Concepts which mediate between form and content: bringing psychoanalysis and sociology together in a realist way

• Why do we want what we want?

• My Psychoanalytical Turn: An Intellectual Biography

• Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s January Blogging

• Why do we choose the cultural objects that we choose?

• A sketch of the psychodynamics of LLMs

• 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

• A Lacanian analysis of addiction

• We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand

• Generative AI and thriving in creative darkness

• Finding Joy in the Creative Darkness: Reflections on Writing and Stuckness

• Thriving in Creative Darkness: Free Association and LLM Collaboration

• Will Claude tell you if your writing is crap? The danger of LLMs for wounded academic writers

• Every time you make a decision you confront your symbolic castration

• A symptom isn’t a symptom until it’s reflexively recognised as such by the analysand

• The moral force of attention and its psychic foundations

• Obsessional neurosis as private religion and the mediation of collective reflexivity by the internet

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

• My favourite Claude character yet: the Lacanian psychoanalyst who packed it in to become a motivational influencer

• Lacanian reflections on productivity culture

• Five thoughts about combining sociological reflexivity and psychoanalysis

• On temporising

• 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?

• Judith Butler’s engagement with psychoanalysis

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

• On seeing ourselves through others: L. S. Lowry’s Head of a Man (With Red Eyes)

• Psychoanalysis as literary tradition

• The myth of the ‘perfectly analysed’ person

• Lacan tried to save the subject from structuralism

• A Tour of Lacan’s Graph of Desire

• My analyst looked up briefly.

• The moral economy of automaticity: sociological and psychoanalytical perspectives

• Turning ghosts into ancestors

• The living dead of obsessive habit

• The concept of cathexis

• John Stuart Mill on libidinal collapse: some thoughts on socialisation and human purpose

• The death drive as a will to create from zero, to begin again

• Going back to previous moments in your life through films

• Psychoanalysis, Capitalism and Resistance

• Covid-19 and the impossibility of floating freely in our undisturbed balance

• The politics of seeking a less clamorous place

• Reconciling the psychoanalytical and the reflexive 

• The empiricist army out to rescue ‘proper evidence-based science’ from the theorists