Samuel Baudinette
@sambaudinette.bsky.social
phd from uchicago. once a scholar of the middle ages, philosophy, theology, and religion. now an aspiring psychoanalyst obsessed with surrealism. on the aristotelian left
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David Lomas, “The Haunted Self: Surrealism, Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity.”
“Intellect’s true concern is a negation of reification. It must perish when it is solidified into a cultural asset and handed out for consumption purposes. The flood of precise information and brand-new amusements make people smarter and more stupid at once.”
Adorno and Horkheimer, preface to DoE.
Adorno and Horkheimer, preface to DoE.
November 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
“Intellect’s true concern is a negation of reification. It must perish when it is solidified into a cultural asset and handed out for consumption purposes. The flood of precise information and brand-new amusements make people smarter and more stupid at once.”
Adorno and Horkheimer, preface to DoE.
Adorno and Horkheimer, preface to DoE.
Reposted by Samuel Baudinette
every once in a while you are left in awe by a little story that is just so immaculately made and such an apt demonstration of the vast things one can achieve with a simple set of tools and some pointed concerns and i think PENDA'S FEN is one of those things for me
This week's SBG bonus episode is on PENDA'S FEN, a striking BBC teleplay from 1974 wherein an incredibly uptight young man through a series of increasingly anomalous encounters learns to interrogate British identity, personal history, sexuality, religion, and more: www.patreon.com/posts/shelve...
November 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
every once in a while you are left in awe by a little story that is just so immaculately made and such an apt demonstration of the vast things one can achieve with a simple set of tools and some pointed concerns and i think PENDA'S FEN is one of those things for me
Panda’s Fen is a queer Bildungsroman and libertarian socialist allegory suffused by the spirit of British romanticism and nonconformist Christianity. If you’re a fan of the philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch or the psychoanalyst D.W.W. Winnicott you really should check it out (and listen to this)
November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Panda’s Fen is a queer Bildungsroman and libertarian socialist allegory suffused by the spirit of British romanticism and nonconformist Christianity. If you’re a fan of the philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch or the psychoanalyst D.W.W. Winnicott you really should check it out (and listen to this)
My cat Bruno clearly approves of thanksgiving dinner since he is gazing upon my wife’s plate with such desperate yearning.
November 27, 2025 at 10:44 PM
My cat Bruno clearly approves of thanksgiving dinner since he is gazing upon my wife’s plate with such desperate yearning.
Reposted by Samuel Baudinette
“The inescapable bestiality of the human animal is the quality from which our cherished and admired characteristics spring.”
W. R. Bion, Attention and Interpretation.
W. R. Bion, Attention and Interpretation.
April 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
“The inescapable bestiality of the human animal is the quality from which our cherished and admired characteristics spring.”
W. R. Bion, Attention and Interpretation.
W. R. Bion, Attention and Interpretation.
Reposted by Samuel Baudinette
“Reason is emotion’s slave and exists to rationalize emotional experience.”
W. R. Bion, Attention and Interpretation.
W. R. Bion, Attention and Interpretation.
April 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
“Reason is emotion’s slave and exists to rationalize emotional experience.”
W. R. Bion, Attention and Interpretation.
W. R. Bion, Attention and Interpretation.
“People rail against the passions without realizing that in the blaze of passion’s torch, the torch of philosophy is lit.”
Marquis de Sade, The Story of Juliette
Marquis de Sade, The Story of Juliette
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
“People rail against the passions without realizing that in the blaze of passion’s torch, the torch of philosophy is lit.”
Marquis de Sade, The Story of Juliette
Marquis de Sade, The Story of Juliette
“Sade’s insanity lay more in his refusal to go mad, when everyone and everything condemned him to go mad. His vertigo is the enormous yardstick of his struggle, one of the most formidable struggles to stay sane ever undergone by anyone.”
Annie Le Brun, Sade: A Sudden Abyss.
Annie Le Brun, Sade: A Sudden Abyss.
November 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
“Sade’s insanity lay more in his refusal to go mad, when everyone and everything condemned him to go mad. His vertigo is the enormous yardstick of his struggle, one of the most formidable struggles to stay sane ever undergone by anyone.”
Annie Le Brun, Sade: A Sudden Abyss.
Annie Le Brun, Sade: A Sudden Abyss.
Reposted by Samuel Baudinette
Hannah Höch,
Bouquet Of Eyes, 1930 Dada artist #WomensArt
Bouquet Of Eyes, 1930 Dada artist #WomensArt
May 28, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Hannah Höch,
Bouquet Of Eyes, 1930 Dada artist #WomensArt
Bouquet Of Eyes, 1930 Dada artist #WomensArt
The entry on mothering according to Paul-Claude Racamier in “The Language of Psychoanalysis” by Laplanche and Pontalis, as well as the entry on Marguerite Sechehaye’s technique of symbolic realization.
November 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The entry on mothering according to Paul-Claude Racamier in “The Language of Psychoanalysis” by Laplanche and Pontalis, as well as the entry on Marguerite Sechehaye’s technique of symbolic realization.
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!
November 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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!
Here are two acts of defacements I saw last weekend (on the purple line).
November 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Here are two acts of defacements I saw last weekend (on the purple line).
I borrowed out from the library the two books by Annie Le Brun that have been translated into English. One of them, a polemic against postmodern theory and postmodern existence, was published by a libertarian new age press (which I don’t find very auspicious). But the study of Sade looks cool!
November 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I borrowed out from the library the two books by Annie Le Brun that have been translated into English. One of them, a polemic against postmodern theory and postmodern existence, was published by a libertarian new age press (which I don’t find very auspicious). But the study of Sade looks cool!
I do really believe—sincerely!—that, as far as revolutionary politics are concerned, the optimism of the will needs to be tempered by the pessimism of the intellect (just like pessimism of the intellect needs to be inflamed by the optimism of the will).
November 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I do really believe—sincerely!—that, as far as revolutionary politics are concerned, the optimism of the will needs to be tempered by the pessimism of the intellect (just like pessimism of the intellect needs to be inflamed by the optimism of the will).
“For me, Novalis is much more important than Hegel, because he is… the only one to think about the totality without trying to master it… His is an essentially poetic approach in which the totality is only discovered in the analogical movement that ties and unties fragments.”
I just discovered this set of translations of works, interviews and letters to and from the surrealist Annie Le Brun. It concludes several texts by Guy Debord as well!
www.notbored.org/Annie-Le-Bru...
www.notbored.org/Annie-Le-Bru...
Annie Le Brun
www.notbored.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
“For me, Novalis is much more important than Hegel, because he is… the only one to think about the totality without trying to master it… His is an essentially poetic approach in which the totality is only discovered in the analogical movement that ties and unties fragments.”
I have discovered a few things about the original owner of these books! They were a psychology major at North Park College trying to take a class on Marxist-Leninist theory in 1976-77. They were also apparently interested in Wilhelm Reich.
November 23, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I have discovered a few things about the original owner of these books! They were a psychology major at North Park College trying to take a class on Marxist-Leninist theory in 1976-77. They were also apparently interested in Wilhelm Reich.
Just picked these up from Books 4 Cause, the big free library in Logan Square!
November 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Just picked these up from Books 4 Cause, the big free library in Logan Square!
I just discovered this set of translations of works, interviews and letters to and from the surrealist Annie Le Brun. It concludes several texts by Guy Debord as well!
www.notbored.org/Annie-Le-Bru...
www.notbored.org/Annie-Le-Bru...
Annie Le Brun
www.notbored.org
November 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I just discovered this set of translations of works, interviews and letters to and from the surrealist Annie Le Brun. It concludes several texts by Guy Debord as well!
www.notbored.org/Annie-Le-Bru...
www.notbored.org/Annie-Le-Bru...
Freud, in “The Question of Lay Analysis,” on the magic of the word:
November 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Freud, in “The Question of Lay Analysis,” on the magic of the word:
It looks like Sullivan (who I have learned is a feminist philosopher who belongs to the pragmatist tradition) has produced a book that develops the Laplanchian conception of the racial unconscious she articulates in this article. I’m going to track it down and give it a read.
November 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
It looks like Sullivan (who I have learned is a feminist philosopher who belongs to the pragmatist tradition) has produced a book that develops the Laplanchian conception of the racial unconscious she articulates in this article. I’m going to track it down and give it a read.
Reposted by Samuel Baudinette
s c r e a m i n g
November 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
s c r e a m i n g
René Magritte in this short autobiographical reflection describes how his discovery of Marxism and Surrealism confirmed his artistic “will to [act] upon the real, for a transformation of life itself.” Following Nietzsche, he also identifies this will as explicitly anti-Christian.
November 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
René Magritte in this short autobiographical reflection describes how his discovery of Marxism and Surrealism confirmed his artistic “will to [act] upon the real, for a transformation of life itself.” Following Nietzsche, he also identifies this will as explicitly anti-Christian.
I’m now reading this Laplanchean account of the formation of a racialized unconscious.
November 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I’m now reading this Laplanchean account of the formation of a racialized unconscious.
This insight, incidentally, forms part of a Laplanchian critique of the analyst who castrates (the Lacanian who introduces a “cut” into the free flow of associations in order to reorient the analysand’s imaginary identifications toward the symbolic or Law).
November 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This insight, incidentally, forms part of a Laplanchian critique of the analyst who castrates (the Lacanian who introduces a “cut” into the free flow of associations in order to reorient the analysand’s imaginary identifications toward the symbolic or Law).