“To preach charity or to proclaim the malice of the Other is to overlook the pitiful jouissance within me. And the more one looks the other way, the more ferociously one is acted upon by the jouissance one misrecognises” –Pascale Fari

“As I have said, all speech begins from the intersection that I situate at point A on the graph. In other words, all speech, insofar as the subject is implicated in it, is the Other’s discourse. It is for this exact reason that children initially believe that all of their ...

Finally, the analyst's discourse stands for the emergence of revolution-ary-emancipatory subjectivity that resolves the split of university and hysteria. In it, the revolutionary agent - a - addresses the subject from the position of knowledge that occupies the place of truth [1]

(i.e., which intervenes at the "symptomal torsion" of the subject's constellation), and the goal is to isolate, get rid of, the master signifier that structured the subject's (ideologico-political) unconscious.[2]

Consequently, when we pass from perversion to the analytic social link, the agent (analyst) reduces himself to the void, which provokes the subject into confronting the truth of his desire. Knowledge in the position of "truth" below the bar under the "agent," of course,[3]

refers to the supposed knowledge of the analyst, and, simultaneously, signals that the knowledge gained here will not be the neutral objective knowledge of scientific adequacy, but the knowledge that concerns the subject (analysand) in the truth of his subjective position.[4]

The agent of the social link is today a, surplus enjoyment, the superego injunction to enjoy that permeates our discourse; this injunction addresses $ (the divided subject) who is put to work in order to live up to this injunction. [5]

The truth of this social link is S2, scientific-expert knowledge in its different guises, and the goal is to generate S1, the self-mastery of the subject, that is, to enable the subject to cope with the stress of the call to enjoyment (through self-help manuals, etc.).[6] - Zizek

“This world that is but a dream of each body.” – JL

I love this poem even more now I've grown old and achy when I get such days as Czeslaw describes here, though it's usually the Eccup Reservoir rather than blue sea and sails.

Fine writers on people “And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.” The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini, 2013

Nicolas Decat, a grad student at the Paris Brain Institute, recently recorded the brain waves of over 100 people as they were falling asleep. His data shows that the line between dreams and reality is blurry. quantamagazine.org/how-the-brain-…

I wonder if the fall of Rome was this stupid.

SCIENCE: Microplastics and nanoplastics can be released into food by unwrapping the food's plastic packaging and into drinks by opening and closing caps on bottles, according to a study published in the journal NPJ Science of Food.

BREAKING: 655 large US companies have gone bankrupt this year, the highest rate in 15 years, according to S&P Global data.

Breaking News: A judge said he would approve Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy, which mandates $7 billion in payments to settle opioid lawsuits. nyti.ms/3JAdBy3

"It takes global or heritage ingredients and repackages them into something emotionally accessible. It reveals how Americans metabolise uncertainty: through warmth, ritual and repetition. That's why it endures." bbc.com/travel/article…

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“Literary truth is entirely a matter of wording and is directly proportional to the energy that one is able to ­impress on the sentence. And when it works, there is no stereotype or cliché of popular literature that resists it.” —Elena Ferrante buff.ly/opwukr4