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Adam DeVille, Ph.D. @adamdeville.bsky.social · 15h

The Catholic superego dies hard!!

Adam DeVille, Ph.D. @adamdeville.bsky.social · 2d

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!

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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...

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Adam DeVille, Ph.D. @adamdeville.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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Adam DeVille, Ph.D. @adamdeville.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Adam DeVille, Ph.D. @adamdeville.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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Adam DeVille, Ph.D. @adamdeville.bsky.social · 4d

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.

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Adam DeVille, Ph.D. @adamdeville.bsky.social · 6d

Surely not! That was a thing?

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Adam DeVille, Ph.D. @adamdeville.bsky.social · 6d

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

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Adam DeVille, Ph.D. @adamdeville.bsky.social · 6d

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!"

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Adam DeVille, Ph.D. @adamdeville.bsky.social · 7d

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!

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Adam DeVille, Ph.D. @adamdeville.bsky.social · 8d

Ad multos gloriosque annos!

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Adam DeVille, Ph.D. @adamdeville.bsky.social · 8d

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.

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Adam DeVille, Ph.D. @adamdeville.bsky.social · 9d

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

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 10d

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)

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 11d

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

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Adam DeVille, Ph.D. @adamdeville.bsky.social · 10d

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

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Adam DeVille, Ph.D. @adamdeville.bsky.social · 11d

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."

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Adam DeVille, Ph.D. @adamdeville.bsky.social · 13d

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

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Adam DeVille, Ph.D. @adamdeville.bsky.social · 13d

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

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Adam DeVille, Ph.D. @adamdeville.bsky.social · 13d

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

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Adam DeVille, Ph.D. @adamdeville.bsky.social · 13d

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.

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Adam DeVille, Ph.D. @adamdeville.bsky.social · 18d

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

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Adam DeVille, Ph.D. @adamdeville.bsky.social · 20d

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.

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Adam DeVille, Ph.D. @adamdeville.bsky.social · 20d

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.

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Adam DeVille, Ph.D. @adamdeville.bsky.social · 20d

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

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Adam DeVille, Ph.D. @adamdeville.bsky.social · 21d

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

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