Ryan L
@realarthurtea.bsky.social
Psychoanalytic wagwit • Grumprock pickleherring • Blues-based • Idiot
Scene from my third annual hyper-Berkeley xmas eve tradition of Sam Rudin’s “Merry Christmas From a Jewish Atheist Pianist,” doing his staple gospel rendition of “Silent Night.”
December 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Scene from my third annual hyper-Berkeley xmas eve tradition of Sam Rudin’s “Merry Christmas From a Jewish Atheist Pianist,” doing his staple gospel rendition of “Silent Night.”
Hard mod therapist, in case you were wondering.
The Psychology of Fashion
Our garments offer glimpses of the unconscious; we may also choose them because they feel nothing like us—because they allow us, briefly, to become someone else.
www.newyorker.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Hard mod therapist, in case you were wondering.
Making sure @the-mel-jar.bsky.social ‘s piece makes the rounds on this side of the Split too.
"Kill Your Darlings": analysis, diagnosis, countertransference, and the Imaginary
Or, perhaps why Lacan said: “There is only one resistance, the resistance of the analyst."
themeljar.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Making sure @the-mel-jar.bsky.social ‘s piece makes the rounds on this side of the Split too.
Five consecutive days off this week. Haven’t had five consecutive days off since 2018 (not counting two eras of unemployed no-thingness). Paying for it with two packed days of patients starting tomorrow though.
Bee Gees Holiday 1967) [High Quality Stereo Sound, Subtitled]
YouTube video by OSWALDO ORDONEZ
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December 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Five consecutive days off this week. Haven’t had five consecutive days off since 2018 (not counting two eras of unemployed no-thingness). Paying for it with two packed days of patients starting tomorrow though.
What was America in 1992 but a Badfish?
December 18, 2025 at 5:55 AM
What was America in 1992 but a Badfish?
Brunch with gf’s family. Everybody having nice, normal conversations about work and holiday plans and stuff. I am only capable of meaningful conversation with 15-year-old nephew about prog rock and System of a Down.
December 15, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Brunch with gf’s family. Everybody having nice, normal conversations about work and holiday plans and stuff. I am only capable of meaningful conversation with 15-year-old nephew about prog rock and System of a Down.
I misinterpreted this at first and thought Sluggo was writing inscrutable calculus equations at the end, implying that he preferred the fantasy of his teacher to the real attention he might get from her. Maybe still true: hard to imagine him taking the initiative to write anything on the board.
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
December 11,1939
December 11,1939
December 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I misinterpreted this at first and thought Sluggo was writing inscrutable calculus equations at the end, implying that he preferred the fantasy of his teacher to the real attention he might get from her. Maybe still true: hard to imagine him taking the initiative to write anything on the board.
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caveman: i never got closure with my family
therapist: yeah, you got FROZURE!
caveman:
therapist: as in "froze your" ass off for sixty thousand years
caveman:
therapist:
caveman: also i'm afraid of cars
therapist: yeah, you got FROZURE!
caveman:
therapist: as in "froze your" ass off for sixty thousand years
caveman:
therapist:
caveman: also i'm afraid of cars
December 11, 2025 at 2:16 AM
caveman: i never got closure with my family
therapist: yeah, you got FROZURE!
caveman:
therapist: as in "froze your" ass off for sixty thousand years
caveman:
therapist:
caveman: also i'm afraid of cars
therapist: yeah, you got FROZURE!
caveman:
therapist: as in "froze your" ass off for sixty thousand years
caveman:
therapist:
caveman: also i'm afraid of cars
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Reposted by Ryan L
An AI therapist will know you about as well as Spotify Wrapped.
December 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
An AI therapist will know you about as well as Spotify Wrapped.
At the immersive Alan Watts experience at the Chabot Space & Science Center
December 5, 2025 at 6:57 AM
At the immersive Alan Watts experience at the Chabot Space & Science Center
This wrapped is cooler
December 5, 2025 at 3:47 AM
This wrapped is cooler
Third career for me (first being derelict rocker/warehouse worker, second, mortician). Clock’s ticking in terms of hours/my age & I’m feeling the pressure. Irony is I was a richer scoundrel than I am a sober professional w an advanced degree. My opinion on “worth it” changes hourly. Excellent piece.
Becoming a psychotherapist is a popular choice as a second career in mid-life - but do you really know what you’re in for?
www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/ever...
www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/ever...
Everyone wants to be a psychotherapist now. But should they?
How many times have you heard someone say 'I'm thinking of retraining as a therapist' this year? As the professional ranks swell with new recruits, Dr. Aaron Balick explains what it really takes
www.gq-magazine.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Third career for me (first being derelict rocker/warehouse worker, second, mortician). Clock’s ticking in terms of hours/my age & I’m feeling the pressure. Irony is I was a richer scoundrel than I am a sober professional w an advanced degree. My opinion on “worth it” changes hourly. Excellent piece.
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Me, at home, watching videos of people Black Friday shopping today.
November 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Me, at home, watching videos of people Black Friday shopping today.
Oh hey, my first skweet was on Thanksgiving last year
November 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Oh hey, my first skweet was on Thanksgiving last year
To Freud’s point that the manifest content of a dream is residue from the preceding dream-day and usually something banal that gets linked to something else more affectively-charged. We can assume Nancy probably walked past that advertisement every day.
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
November 27,1947
November 27,1947
November 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
To Freud’s point that the manifest content of a dream is residue from the preceding dream-day and usually something banal that gets linked to something else more affectively-charged. We can assume Nancy probably walked past that advertisement every day.
Therapy, sessions, and consultation followed by a burrito and then a house clean listening to this album that was recorded down the hill from my high school. I hate the haters, this album rips. Still a punk ™️.
Carousel
YouTube video by blink-182 - Topic
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Therapy, sessions, and consultation followed by a burrito and then a house clean listening to this album that was recorded down the hill from my high school. I hate the haters, this album rips. Still a punk ™️.
Referenced both Ween and the Bee Gees multiple times in therapy today and made sure each time I did to follow it up with the rejoinder “[I’m] still a punk.”
Big Audio Dynamite - I Turned Out a Punk (album version)
YouTube video by leotakka
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Referenced both Ween and the Bee Gees multiple times in therapy today and made sure each time I did to follow it up with the rejoinder “[I’m] still a punk.”
Ate high-fiber lentil pasta for lunch between sessions today; wish I was a better Lacanian so I could feel free to just let them fly and not hold them in the rest of the day.
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Ate high-fiber lentil pasta for lunch between sessions today; wish I was a better Lacanian so I could feel free to just let them fly and not hold them in the rest of the day.
Actual photo of me typing up my process note for case consultation and carefully removing all the “uhhs” and “likes” from my trenchant interpretations.
November 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Actual photo of me typing up my process note for case consultation and carefully removing all the “uhhs” and “likes” from my trenchant interpretations.
If the Flintstones was instead a show about lazy zoomers, it would be set in the town of Bedrot.
November 24, 2025 at 2:54 AM
If the Flintstones was instead a show about lazy zoomers, it would be set in the town of Bedrot.
Anyone thought of making a series of Lacan-shaped garden gnomes and calling them Lawn Jacquies? Lac-awn Jacquies? Is that anything?
November 24, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Anyone thought of making a series of Lacan-shaped garden gnomes and calling them Lawn Jacquies? Lac-awn Jacquies? Is that anything?