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@aodhanpmoran Yeah, kinda! Puts into perspective why the abused has the potential to be the perpetrator

Today I learned about the word jouissance. Mind went Kaboom.

@jreidchapman Yeah. I appreciated her simple communication. Most amused by how we can work with signifiers and associations. By listening to gaps we can hear each other more completely.

@pressand_turn Yesssss! Ha, I finally understood Lacan after reading this book—or some of Lacan

@jreidchapman Ahaha this is cute. annie’s fanclub member approved! 🤭

@pressand_turn I just had to take this street

@bloomingparts In her own words: “Jouissance is not pleasure, or within what Freud called “the limits of pleasure,” but rather an excess that takes us into a state of being out of control, where the next limit for the organism is felt to be death. ” The Unsayable, Annie Rogers

@pressand_turn well, what did you learn to go boom~? 🌿

@bloomingparts I picked up something about why people are capable of destruction as they are capable of creativity and love. Something about the enactment. Something about pleasure and sex and jouissance is something beyond that. How it can be tied to suffering.

if you don't learn how to repent and apologise without defensiveness then your relationships will forever be terrible and you'll remain largely unhappy

@FeistyKittyPie Haha yes! I catch the message. I think on some level, if I were to hold my hand to my heart, there are moments I rmb I impulsively speak into things I know little of. Tried to be shiny but .. are we? Really? Really shiny? 🤭🤣

@pressand_turn No no no please blast out the papers and be the hot shit that you are! My message is meant for those who are trying too hard to be who they're not lol. I am grateful my very gifted peers did not hold back from shining because I needed to see that to know I wasn't hot shit.

One really good thing from going to grad school was finding out that I wasn't hot shit, despite whatever academic accomplishments I had as a kid. My peers were cranking out crazily well received papers while I could barely make it through readings without being reduced to tears.

@FeistyKittyPie This is very good advice for me. I am that guy trying to blast out papers in academia while trying to poke my head into many rooms. In other words I am trying my best to be hot shit and who are we really fking kidding 🐸

Learning is really difficult if one can't accept feeling stupid. It's clichéd but it's also more fun when it's not about some end goal of being some Rising Hot Shit. Once I accepted being average Jane, with average outcomes, doing and learning therapy became way more fun.

@Psychistential @DrGipps 🤭 true that!

@pressand_turn @DrGipps At this stage, trying to say something genuinely insightful and interesting that could be broken down and explained to an 11 year old at a simplitistic level.

bad philosophical writing: endless epistemic this; endless normative that.

@SystemicTexism The very question asked actually reveals what's exactly wrong with his book. No one ever said the body doesn't matter, but he writes as though talk therapists don't work with the body, and endorses highly specific modalities as though it's only the model that matters.

@yantomr4 😂 explains a lot, right? All Aries are the same, tbh. Elite, snobbish, egotistical, stylish, into the best psychoanalytic takes….

@the_mel_jar @yantomr4 😭😭😭😭😭😭 why is this so real 😭😭😭😭😭

Today is Jacques Lacan’s birthday, and mine. 🥳😎

@Lmsnow3 @jefffinethomas Oh this is beautiful. Did you come across this in a book? Where? 🥹

The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy, and dull things become cheerful. - Leo Tolstoy

@PAHoyeck My eyes were scanning for Arrival. Glad it’s on top of the list! I will never forget the chills of realizing how powerful language can be.

My rough ranking of some of the best science fiction films btw: 1. 2001: A Space Odyssey 2. Solaris 3. Children of Men 4. Blade Runner 5. Annihilation 6. Arrival 7. Interstellar 8. Soylent Green 9. Planet of the Apes 10. The Matrix 11. Blade Runner 2049 12. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 13. Inception 14. The Thing 15. Ex Machina 16. Under the Sin 17. Ghost in the Shell 18. The Martian 19. 12 Monkeys 20. Project Hail Mary

rich and true to themselves. I might be wrong and this could very well be my fantasy. Anyways. I think hysterics in academia tend to want to be impressive but can be lacking in richness. My favourite professor introduced this reading I am so in love with. Lol. Enjoy!

I sometimes oddly marvel at schzoids because their internal life is so fascinating. As a hysterical person myself I can never imagine someone say “Hell is other people.” I am drawn to this impossibility. They seem to have this gift/curse to be original and generate something