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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 9h

This year’s haul from the annual Hyde Park secondhand book sale!

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 14h

I’m looking forward to reading the later discussions when women are actually present and begin to participate.

Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 14h

I was also pleased to see that Aragon pointed out that because they largely excluded women the discussions privileged chauvinist conceptions of sex.

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 14h

It was also good to see participants—such as Raymond Queneau and Louis Aragon—push back against Breton’s moralizing and his homophobia.

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 14h

Something I found surprising (and charming) because I didn’t anticipate it: the surrealists debate seriously the role that succubi and incubi play in both sexual fantasy and sexual reality.

Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 2d

I stopped by Powell’s in Hyde Park today and picked up something cool!

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 18h

PS. I am *not* asking about or interested in your favorite podcasts or video essays.

Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 18h

Can anyone recommend (or is anyone willing to share) a syllabus or list of articles and books that could serve as an introduction to horror studies? Philosophy, literary criticism, film studies—whatever comes to mind! I’m trying to get into the spooky season 🎃🧛‍♂️🎃🧙‍♀️🎃🦇🎃

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 1d

Jean Dubuffet, “Asphyxiating Culture.”

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 1d

I find this to be especially strange given many relational analysts professed adherence to the hermeneutical philosophy of Gadamer, who wrote two very helpful phenomenological studies of the dialectic of Plato and of Hegel…

Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 2d

Whatever I feel about Jon Mills I think he’s right that—with a few notable exceptions, like Jessica Benjamin and Thomas Ogden—the American relational psychoanalysts tend to employ the term “dialectic” without understanding what it means in philosophy and critical theory.

Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 4d

Reading Jon Mills this morning. I haven’t found his work to be too compelling tbh. Although I have similar complaints about how some relational analysts evoke philosophical arguments and concepts without fully understanding them, or occasionally straw man Freud to forward their position.

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 2d

JoAnn Wypijewski’s short introduction to this book does it a great disservice imo

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 2d

“Of course the psyche can die through disintegration… but there is also a death of the psyche caused by excessive synthesis and rigidity—death by the ego. From this point of view, Lacan’s criticism of the ego as an instance of fascination and immobilization… remains valid.”

Jean Laplanche

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 2d

In his “New Foundations for Psychoanalysis” Jean Laplanche outlines (as part of his general theory of seduction) why psychoanalysis requires a theory of drives, and offers an account of the elements of the drive, which explain why the drive is *not* instinctual (or self preservative).

Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 2d

I stopped by Powell’s in Hyde Park today and picked up something cool!

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 2d

It would also require that relational psychoanalysts subscribe to an epistemology that they usually claim to reject: positivism!

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 2d

I suppose if one were a pragmatist or a constructivist one could argue that they force the term to mean what they need it to mean. But that would be to confirm its status as a floating signifier that partly organizes a theoretical and political discourse or style.

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 2d

It becomes a kind of floating signifier in their discourse and is often called upon to mean something very different from what it meant to Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Schelling, Hegel, or Marx (who all, of course, give it a different meaning and significance based on their own theory and practice).

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 2d

Whatever I feel about Jon Mills I think he’s right that—with a few notable exceptions, like Jessica Benjamin and Thomas Ogden—the American relational psychoanalysts tend to employ the term “dialectic” without understanding what it means in philosophy and critical theory.

Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 4d

Reading Jon Mills this morning. I haven’t found his work to be too compelling tbh. Although I have similar complaints about how some relational analysts evoke philosophical arguments and concepts without fully understanding them, or occasionally straw man Freud to forward their position.

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 3d

Watched Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “Kairo” for the first time tonight. Really good. Probably the best J-Horror I’ve seen since “Noroi.”

This thoughtful retrospective review gives a nice account of its themes and its aesthetics while situating it historically:

aspectfilmjournal.web.unc.edu/2023/09/ashb...

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 3d

“A failure of translation—this is what is clinically known as repression. The motive for it is always a release of the unpleasure that would be generated by a translation… a disturbance of thought… does not permit the work of translation.”

Freud to Fliess, December 6, 1896.

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 3d

Someone in Hyde Park is clearly liquidating their old art book collection right now, because I just found these in the little free library where I recently found the old Picasso and Ernst exhibition catalogues.

Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 3d

At the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute. Solms is associated faculty here and neuropsychoanalysis has been heavily integrated into the curriculum for psychoanalytic candidates. My instructor is Virginia Barry (whose bio I include here).

chicagoanalysis.org/faculty/virg...

Virginia Barry - Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

Virginia Barry MD is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in full-time private practice in Chicago. She has served on the Institute's faculty since 1991 and has

chicagoanalysis.org

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Reposted by Samuel Baudinette

Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 3d

In case of interest, a colleague and I have written about this specifically in relation to Mark Solms' neuropsychoanalytic project. I continue to think a lot about this in light of Solms' revised Standard Edition publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/in... and mh.bmj.com/content/45/2...

The rehabilitation of the drive in neuropsychoanalysis : from sexuality to self-preservation

The nascent field of neuropsychoanalysis positions itself as a putative bridge between two »historically divided disciplines«. In this chapter, we address this attempt to bridge these two disciplines,...

publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks! This looks helpful!

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 3d

You would have to give up on being “strictly” Freudian, however. But if you’re a Lacanian you’ve already done that (because like Deleuze you’ve made some room for Kleinian object relations and it’s so-called “id psychology” —if only to partially reject it by reformulating it).

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