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out of isolation and into social struggles
In 1911, Sigmund Freud addressed his followers gathered at Nuremberg, where he restated the import of his practice: “the task of psychoanalysis lies not at all in the discovering of complexes, but in the dissolving of resistances.” A formal antipode to political resistance, psychoanalytic resistance dams up desire and obstructs traumatic knowledge. It is conservative, allergic to change, and aims for the kind of frictionless normativity against which the unconscious drives rail. Meanwhile, we associate political resistance with change itself, with a blockade that pushes for revolution—rather than a blockage that censors its very possibility. If we read Freud as urging his followers to help their patients move through their resistance, psychoanalysis is a project on the side of material and political reality by bringing patients out of isolation and into social struggles.
Go by the signs
Eliza Swann aka Emerald.
“Your love goes to the centerline of the branch
But you desire all the water.
There is no way of knowing
What I tell you about love is true.
Go by the signs.”
Frank Stanford, from “Directions from a Madman,”
Invitation to a dispensary
Banana est sous licence CUTE (Conditions d’utilisations typographiques engageantes), dessinée par Clara Bougon en 2023.
Banana. Velvelyne is a typeface designed for the Velvetyne website in 2023 by Manon Van der Borght and Mariel Nils. It is now available published under CUTE licence, written by Bye Bye Binary.
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US says Haitians can be deported – days after ruling Haiti unsafe for Americans. (The Guardian)
I dissent the erosion of the imaginary
I dissent the egregious display of power, poor governance, lack of empathy, little disregard for life and the living, the reluctance to help those in need, the militarization of public space, the inherent threat in the display of might and potentiality to cause great harm, the unnecessary and aggressive measures as claims of defending sovereignty, the regressive moves against our heterogeneous and complex communities, the erosion of the social, practices of community, justice, democracy, and civility.
in proportion
AG_1020129ac or time to sit quiet, face to face with thee
I ask for a moment’s indulgence to sit by thy side. The works that I have in hand I will finish afterwards.
Away from the sight of thy face my heart knows no rest nor respite, and my work becomes an endless toil in a shoreless sea of toil.
To-day the summer has come at my window with its sighs and murmurs; and the bees are plying their minstrelsy at the court of the flowering grove.
Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.
Gitanjali 5, Rabindranath Tagore