Adam DeVille, Ph.D.

I made a batch of blackberry jam last week.

We look forward to updates and pictures! Bon voyage.

Woman on beach staring at giant wave (tsunami?)

Feeling this hard today. #AcademicSky

Not just that but entire multi-axial psychiatric diagnoses for themselves and sixteen of their closest associates. According to TT everyone today has, inter alia, ADHD, PTSD, and borderline or narcissistic personality disorder.

Oh I forgot about this charming place of pilgrimage! I haven't been there in probably a decade now. A dear friend from Staten Island, whose enormous collection of pens i inherited after his death, gave me a gift card to use there.

This is basically every right-wing Catholic family I know. Swearing is "demonic" but people in cages are fine.

Ogden is one of the richest and most rewarding psychoanalytic writers today, and Adam Rodriguez one of his most perceptive commentators.

I love my Japanese vegetable cleaver.

I started with fountain pens in gr.7 and never looked back. What are your favorites?

Just blurted out an abject apology to one of my plants after accidentally tearing off a healthy bit while trying to pluck the dead leaves. Surely this is normal behavior and not King Charles Syndrome?

I'd move to Italy tomorrow if I could. Or any of a dozen other places.

It's safe to say @1t2ls.bsky.social is not.

I'm now regularly and gratefully sending students to his excellent website to read articles.

The ones I know who left have been scrubbed from all websites, etc., with a speed and ruthlessness that exceeded Stalin excising Trotsky from the Soviet Encyclopedia.

And no Catholic institution ever considers itself bound by Catholic social teaching when it comes to, say, a just wage.

Groundbreaking Analysis Upends Our Understanding of Psychiatric Holds In situations where some physicians would admit involuntarily but others would not, holding patients against their will leaves them worse off.

Groundbreaking Analysis Upends Our Understanding of Psychiatric Holds

In situations where some physicians would admit involuntarily but others would not, holding patients against their will leaves them worse off.

www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/a-groundbr...

The idea that Obama was anything other than a neoliberal--and never within a thousand miles of being a leftist--was demonstrably absurd even before he won office.

Interesting. I was never able to finish it. I have read *Helena* probably 3 or 4 times for the buried puns.

Elliot's Advance Embassy will require several consuls and secretaries and plenipotentiaries to sing his virtues.

The Freud Museum.

Bravo! People who neatly fold and pile laundry are doubtless psychopaths.

Few things vex me faster than having my sleep schedule screwed up.

More difficult than understanding the passive- authoritarian, masochistic character understanding the active-authoritarian, the sadistic character. To his followers he seems self-confident and powerful but yet he is as frightened and alone as the masochistic character. While the masochist feels strong because he is a small part of something greater, the sadist feels strong because he has incorporated others - if possible many others; he has devoured them, so to speak. The sadistic-authoritarian character is as dependent on the ruled as the masochistic -authoritarian character on the ruler. However the image is misleading. As long as he holds power, the leader appears - to himself and to others - strong and powerful. His powerlessness becomes only apparent when he has lost his power, when he can no longer devour others, when he is on his own. When I speak of sadism as the active side of the authoritarian personality, many people may be surprised because sadism is usually understood as the tendency to torment and to cause pain. But actually, this is not the point of sadism. The different forms of sadism which we can observe have their root in a striving, which is to master and control another individual, to make him a helpless object of one's will, to become his ruler, to dispose over him as one sees fit and without limitations. Humiliation and enslavement are just means to this purpose, and the most radical means to this is to make him suffer; as there is no greater power over a person than to make him suffer, to force him to endure pains without resistance.

Erich Fromm wrote about this sort of sadism in The Authoritarian Personality

“the most radical means to this is to make him suffer; as there is no greater power over a person than to make him suffer, to force him to endure pains without resistance.”

Adam Phillips says something very similar: in our asides, our "Oh by the ways," is often to be found our real desires.

Same with Indiana BMV in my experience--fast, helpful, never screw things up.

Hanging laundry outside in summer and in winter on my indoor Amish drying racks.

Sad we'll rarely see this again: most of us don't have piles of papers/books everywhere but instead 876431 PDFs.

Lovely colours!

No.

Sleeping with the fishes is always an honourable option.

I *despise* endnotes, whether at the end of a chapter or end of the book.