The father is a screen - responding to Girard's critique of the Oedipal complex This piece continues our ongoing series on the philosophical problem posed by the emergence of self-destructive behaviors in human beings, and it builds on a prior essay about how Lacan draws out the under-theorized role of fantasy in Girard's theory of desire. This piece expands our understanding of Matthew A. Stanley • Psychoanalysis
Zen Master Jianzhen sails to Japan Desire: Push Theories and Pull Theories (Part 2) This essay serves as the second part of the work began last week in which I trace two contrasting categories of theories of desire. These two pieces play a pivotal role in our ongoing series on the question of self-destructive behavior in humans. I moved quite a bit of this Matthew A. Stanley • Psychoanalysis
Desire: Push Theories and Pull Theories (Part 1) This piece composes part one of a larger two part essay which continues our ongoing series on the philosophical question posed by self-destructive behaviors in humans. You can read part two by clicking here. Rene Girard’s work is instructive in a number of ways, but on this point we Matthew A. Stanley • Psychoanalysis
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You might not have known... ... a friend and I ran a podcast back in 2021. It was called Suffer Map, and the quality actually holds up quite well. Here's the teaser description: To map our suffering with thought and laughter -- this is the task we have set before ourselves. With these tools, Matthew A. Stanley
