Lacan never spoke of freedom. But he wrote about war (internal and external), just as Sartre and Arendt did. He didn't need freedom as a concept to conceptualize human subjectivity. I tend to side with him: Freedom is too elusive while war is immanent. Sadly. 5/5
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None of this occurs in a vacuum. Violence echoes. The attacks on transgender people are intimately tied to the current waves of deportations and the fall of Roe v. Wade, which are part of a larger crackdown on bodily autonomy. Rights are won, and then they are stripped away. For many trans people, this ambivalent dependence on the state is both a privilege and a weakness. We are tied to a political machine that ultimately does not want us. For years, we have been forced to work out creative solutions to bureaucratic snafus; we have celebrated hard-fought victories that often turn out to be short-lived. The state will not save us, we joke, even as we fear that it may very well try to extinguish us.
Solid read:
Kudos!
feminist/queer political economy starter pack is here - let me know who else I need to add
“I'm not willing to treat Elon Musk "collegially and with courtesy". Any pleasure I may take in the distinction of the honour of an FRS is diminished by the fact it is shared with someone who appears to be modeling himself on a Bond villan… Accordingly, last week I resigned my FRS.”
I couldn't find much on Bsky so I created an embryonic starter pack for #Poststructuralism, #CriticalTheory, #postmodernism, #Postcolonial theory, #Foucault, #Deleuze, #JudithButler, #Mbembe, #SarahAhmed, #EdwardSaid, #Debord, #Baudrillard, #Althusser, #Lacan, #Lazzarato, #Zizek.
go.bsky.app/2Be5f4z
Thanks, Martin, for highlighting this study, which adds to the evidence for the long-term effectiveness of psychotherapy.
Training Programs: The relationship accounts for more variance in outcomes than the specific technical interventions.
Students: Okay, so my patient is depressed, how can I use the therapeutic relationship to help them?
Training Programs: Have you tried behavioral activation? RCTs show it helps!
Psychotherapy is the art of tactfully and strategically disagreeing with the patient.
The Hélène Cixous Folio courtesy of
@jewishcurrents.bsky.social
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The right does indeed have a big Bluesky problem.
X gave the right an opportunity to 'own the libs' and persuade the persuadables to join their side.
Bluesky could deprive them of both.
Gift article to read and share.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The Medical Model of Psychopathology
“[The term] “medical model” has become a slogan for use in public debate than a term of precision for furthering intellectual discussion or scientific discovery.” Gerald Klerman, 1977
*new post*
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-medica...
They should just rename vaccines “supplements” so everyone will like them.
Writers can also check out TWUC's resources which includes handy info like a guide for understanding and negotiating contracts www.writersunion.ca/writers-how-...
🔥 Hot tip for artists, esp those without agents: if you're in Ontario, did you know about ALAS, a legal aid clinic for artists (no fee, pwyc)? Sometimes it helps to check in with an entertainment laywer who knows industry norms www.alasontario.ca/client-intak...
Psychoanalysis & the Psychosocial Starter Pack go.bsky.app/UJV7CvG
In the 80s, CUPW took it on the chin to win paid mat leave, resulting in the parental leave we have today for ALL Canadian workers 💌 You can support current CUPW members on strike today - send an email to Canada Post's CEO demanding a fair deal for our postal workers (link below)
Another starter pack worth checking out:
In Canada's universal health system, mental health care is not so universal: report
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
“From theory to practice the step can be very short.”
Psychoanalysis, Schizoanalysis, and Pluralism: Perspectives from Latin America
(30 November, in person and online)
Worth checking out:
The Psychosocial Foundation relaunches its website. A telephonic clinic, supervision groups, and movement psychoanalysis/ group consultation are announced in addition to publishing #Parapraxis and hosting sliding-scale seminars, lectures, and short courses.
www.thepsychosocialfoundation.org
examples of irony: a paywalled NYT article warning people not to give their email addresses to companies, whilst simultaneously asking for an email address in order to subscribe, and a snip from Nature, titled 'the growing inaccessibility of science' with a popup showing 'access options' are a subscription to the journal costing $199.
the internet, where irony goes to die
Masterful tricolon:
Between sleep and wakefulness is the world of dreaming, between work and rest is the world of playing, between hallucination and practical reason is the world of desiring.
Finding Winnicott
@fadiabourihan.bsky.social
#tricolon