Samuel Baudinette
@SamBaudinette
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phd from uchicago. once a scholar of the middle ages, philosophy, and theology. now an aspiring psychoanalyst obsessed with surrealism. on the aristotelian left
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David Lomas, “The Haunted Self: Surrealism, Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity.”
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Other reasons one should read Leszek Kolakowski: 1.) you can gain some insight into the intellectual development of Gillian Rose by reading her teacher; 2.) you can see how a Marxist humanism, leads to an anti-communist humanism, before collapsing into a reactionary perennialism.
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a very good essay from my friend and yours, isabel
bartleby.life
I Was Sexually Assaulted on a Train in 2019
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As a medievalist with Deleuzo-Guattarian sympathies I am also a big fan of Andrew Cole’s “The Birth of Theory” https://t.co/XKwALpMbNd
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Modern theory needs a history lesson. Neither Marx nor Nietzsche first gave us theory—Hegel did. To support this contention, Andrew Cole’s The Birth of Theory presents a refreshingly clear and lively...
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A very decent introduction to the history of dialectics that I would personally supplement with Gadamer’s book on dialectics and Adorno’s lectures on dialectics!
Leszek Kolakowski's "Main Currents of Marxism" gives a good overview of the history of dialectics - always things to take issue with - not sure what the most comprehensive/sophisticated account is though.
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I do think there’s a very significant difference between Kohut and Kohut’s epigones that I want to be alert to while I read through the self psychological literature. (Pictured: Kohut’s argument in his final lecture and Strozier et. al’s account of that argument)
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I say “Althusserian” but, on closer inspection, the author seems to be more informed of figures downstream of Althusser. Particularly Pierre Macherey and even Terry Eagleton!
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These courses begin this week and I’m reading the new intellectual biography of Kohut by Strozier et. al and Solms’ intellectual autobiography for my first two classes. Wish me luck!
12 more weeks of neuropsychoanalysis and, now, a 12 week course dedicated to advanced self psychology. My next semester of classes at the psychoanalytic institute are going to be a bit of a trial!
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In case anyone is interested, given the news of the day, here is the statement on academic freedom that goes on all my syllabi. I think it keeps things pretty clear for students.
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I went to the end of year break up party for the literacy org that I’ve been volunteering with/working for this year. We did a white elephant gift exchange and I got this cool little sheep statue, a CD, and an Althusserian cultural history of the American Jazz Age!
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A philosopher produces ideas, a poet poems, a clergyman sermons, a professor compendia and so on. A criminal produces crimes. If we take a closer look at the connection between this latter branch of production and society as a whole, we shall rid ourselves of many prejudices.
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I found this in a little free library this morning on my way to work. Reading it this evening!
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I’ve been enjoying—but perhaps not really loving—Davies and Dean’s “Hatred of Sex.” But I would definitely recommend it! Here’s the books central thesis, articulated at the beginning of a chapter that offers a clear and succinct political and queer critique of John Bowlby.
I need to sit down and read Oliver Davies and Tim Dean’s “Hatred of Sex.” At this moment in my psychoanalytic career I would definitely appreciate a critique of the (neo)liberal sexual politics of American relationalism and queer theory that draws upon both Ranciere and Laplanche
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(Please remember that I am not fully hostile towards the affective turn and that I think the critical study of what Raymond Williams named “structures of feeling” can compliment an analysis of political and libidinal economy)
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I learnt about another critique of the affective turn in the humanities by Ruth Leys which compliments that by Papoulias and Callard that I read a few weeks ago.
These articles are related to other works by Callard, which seek to examine how different disciplines incorporate or respond to psychoanalysis and affective neuroscience in ways that “domesticate” or “tame” what is challenging or politically unpalatable in their theories.
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I have decided to reread the Lord of the Rings which I haven’t read for almost 20 years. My assessment so far is that it is perfectly fine but that I still find it weird a whole cultural industry of academic (and frequently pseudo-academic) Tolkienology has emerged in its wake.
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the Michelin man is kinda like a Greek god in the sense that he presides over tires and which restaurants are good
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