One who was: 'One who was cannot now ever not have been: Once experienced, the mysterious and impenetrable fact of having lived becomes one's provision for eternity.” — Vladimir Jankélévitch, Nostalgia and the Irreversible (1974)

Speech is free perhaps, but I am less free than before; I no longer succeed in knowing what I want, the space is so saturated, the pressure so great from all who want to make themselves heard.

Jean Baudrillard

'Rather than screaming about Gaza, many screamed about a generic, medical vision of mental health as if this were somehow still a generic case.'

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On Thursday, April 18th at 8pm, I'm giving an experimental talk at The Poetry Project about psychoanalysis and poetry. Nuar Alsadir will also be speaking. I’m not a psychoanalyst but may share a ghost story. Learn more and procure tickets: poetryproject.org/events/nuar-al…

Still floored that Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute got a $5 million gift.

A surprising number of clinical exchanges in this book for Adam Phillips, who at this point I think has sworn off talking about specific cases in his books.

“At the height of his powers, he manages to combine Winnicott’s endearing warmth and earnestness with Khan’s wicked goading and nerve, keeping each in balance: whispering like an analytic angel in one ear and a devil in the other.”

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I love this.

I usually advise patients who are looking for a therapist to ask in the free phone call, 'Do you consider Prometheus a better film than Aliens?', and if they say yes, call another therapist.