The Carmelite priest at Mass today described St Francis’ holy poverty as ‘inner nakedness’, which I thought was interesting.

New arrival

‘The true formula of atheism is not God is dead. The true formula of atheism is God is unconscious.’ Jacques Lacan

New arrival

'If I listen carefully and learn to discern the signs of the times, I distinctly hear the signs of your reassuring presence at my door...' — Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, S.J.

'The last stroke of midnight dies. All day in the one chair From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged In rambling talk with an image of air...' W.B. Yeats

“I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will." Antonio Gramsci in a Letter from Prison (December 1929)

“What does the discourse of capitalism reject? Castration. Any order, any discourse that aligns itself with capitalism sweeps to one side what we may simply call, my fine friends, matters of love.” Jacques Lacan, Talking to Brick Walls

I am really looking forward to giving two lectures next week to students at the CG Jung Institute of Zurich on ‘The Alchemy of Addiction’ and ‘Jung and the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola’, based on two books of mine.

Aldous Huxley

‘You must start from the text, start by treating it as Holy Writ. The author, the scribe, is only a pen-pusher, and he comes second. Similarly, when it comes to our patients, please give more attention to the text than to the psychology of the author,’ Lacan

The unobserved mind is the ego. The observed mind is the Self.