Adam DeVille, Ph.D.

That desperate insecure grasping after a seat has been painfully obvious from the first moments he took over FT.

A cool fall night with fresh sheets....mmm mm. Makes me want to go to bed at 7pm here at Excitement Central!

The Catholic superego dies hard!!

An Encomium for Jonathan Lear....and Other Books I did not mean to leave so large a gap on here, having posted nothing since March. I have several times gestured wanly in the direction of m...

An encomium for the late Jonathan Lear, and thoughts on his books and those of others, including Laplanche on Freud and sex, Bion on psychosis, and Todd McGowan on Hegel and alienation--and many others!

booksinpsychotherapy.blogspot.com/2025/10/an-e...

Exactly. Once a patient is in a clinical relationship with me I lose the 'right' to freely speak about all kinds of things to and about them.

Oooh thanks! I'm not on TT but will see about other videos as a helpmate.

What, to this day, is part of the title of the Ecumenical Patriarch? That he is archbishop of New Rome. 'Byzantines' saw themselves as Romans. It's thanks to Gibbon's tendentious history most of us think otherwise.

No serious psychotherapist has "free speech". We are--or should be--restrained at all times in what can and should say for very good reasons.

Surely not! That was a thing?

His work in hermeneutics has been very helpful to me in introducing my students to contested notions in the philosophy of science.

An other version of this frequently encountered: "No, that's not freedom--that's licentiousness! You will be a slave to your passions that way!"

Talk about an occasion of sin: I'll use any excuse to buy more plants. (I've only got 21 in my consulting room.) Thanks a lot!

Ad multos gloriosque annos!

Loathe though I am to add to the ever-expanding DSM, I will make an exception by creading a Deranged Nostalgia Disorder the treatment for which is shooting you through a time machine back to some other century so we don't ever have to listen to you again.

Oooh! Must check this out. I've been sick of the whining around 'disenchantment' for some time now.

I am An Old.

(I read way faster than people speak, so I'm almost always going to prefer text over video. I can also read without disturbing anyone nearby without requiring headphones)

Alasdair MacIntyre demolished that myth in his 1967 lecture on secularization and moral change.

As a young boy--few today know this--wee Tony said "I want to be to the left of Aneurin Bevan in my revolutionary zeal to transform the politics of this country."

Thoughts and prayers as you work your chakras to process this traumatic memory.

His book on Freud and philosophy was the best thing since Ricoeur's.

30 years next month when we unforgettably learned that "l'argent et la vote ethnique" was to blame for Parizeau's referendum loss.

Wagner is great work-out music; I used to run to the Ring Cycle. I'm slowly developing an obsession with a couple of Brahms' piano trios/concertos which I grandly imagine I might be able to play one day...if I practice for the next 80 years.

Fortescue's ceremonial rubrics commend this practice outside of Eastertide.

Can confirm after seeing 7 homeschooled Catholic kids of friends, involved in Focus, Catholic summer camps, Steubenville shindigs: 2 have left church entirely after being abused by priests & other 5 (some daily communicants) so mistrust the institution they rarely attend even Sunday Mass now.

If Melanie Klein had not existed it would have been necessary to invent her to supply us with the practice of projective identification which allows us to understand Christian demonization.

MacIntyre himself mourned the misunderstanding and tendentious misrepresentation that infamous conclusion to AV gave rise to.

I've been assigning more and more Levinas to my students this past year, especially on the 'ethics of the face'.

Can confirm everything you've said about it!

I'm in a monthly Zoom group discussing clinical texts and it works well.

It *is* a rich book, and it very helpfully forced me to reconsider things I had more or less taken for granted after reading Robert Stoller's works on perversion, trauma, and sexuality.