Ben A.M.

UPDATE: Mahmoud Khalil is being held by ICE in the Jena/LaSalle Detention Facility in Louisiana, per ICE detainee tracker

Khalil was detained Saturday night from his New York apartment building

Lacan develops the notion of the Name-of-the-Father as a signifier underpinning the Law from which meaning can be secured and guaranteed for any discourse to function. He claims that this “Other of the Other” does not exist, yet it functions as a virtual ideological referent.

Some of my best friends are in samsara.

How I think about teaching at chalkboard / how the board actually looks

Recently got an e-ink tablet (Supernote) and its been a game-changer for annotating PDFs

The correct Marxist line is to privilege the plus-de-jouir between the two 😤

takes paranoia as the prevailing framework for understanding social/political discord (think of recent commentaries on conspiracy theories, surveillance capitalism, dis-information, etc.).

usurped neurosis, along with repression, as the primary model of unconscious functioning. Klein's projective identification and Bion's alpha/beta-functions are paradigmatic of this turn, still major influences in modern mentalization theory. Today, even much of psychoanalytic social commentary ...

It's interesting to think that most of the major theoretical innovations in psychoanalysis after Freud began as attempts to formulate the structure of psychosis, especially within the British school and arguably underpinning the different "phases" of Lacan's teaching. In both cases, psychosis ...

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Snow storm in Houston, TX… a city whose infrastructure can barely handle a few days of light rain

Twin Peaks

Where can I read more about this Chiesa/Zizek debate? Love your work!

Save the 388 and preserve treatment options for mental health! We the undersigned are academic faculty and researchers whose work engages with psychoanalysis, and we are writing from North America, South America, and Europe to support the Center for the Treatme...

Don't let them close the 388!

There is no place in the world like the Center for the Treatment of Young Psychotic Adults in Quebec City—the "388" for short. The brainchild of Willi Apollon, Lucie Cantin, and Danielle Bergeron, it is actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...

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