Transcript: What is jouissance? Transcript for latest Samsara Audio video "What is jouissance?" Matthew Stanley • Psychoanalysis
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 Stanley
Announcing: Samsara Audio Yes, the world desperately needed another podcast, didn't it? In light of the recent chaos on Twitter involving the release of Substack's new Notes feature, I chose to accelerate my timeline for expanding Samsara Diagnostics into the realm of audio, specifically YouTube and Spotify. I' Matthew Stanley
"The Hunters in the Snow" by Bruegel the Elder The desire to desire: from Girard's mimesis to Lacan's fantasy Today we continue our ongoing series on the question of self-destructive behaviors in humans, and especially the role of fantasy, desire, and the ego play. Academics and lay theorists alike have been re-discovering Rene Girard lately. His theories have attracted attention for their shocking relevance to our modern lives in Matthew Stanley • Psychoanalysis
Photo by Ivy Barn / Unsplash Staging our own destruction: suicide and fantasy with Gladwell and Plath This essay continues our series on the emergence of self-destructive behaviors. Suicide and Fantasy In 1962, 44% of the people who killed themselves in England and Wales used the same method — inhaling the "town gas" flowing freely in the pipes inside their homes. This gas was a noxious Matthew Stanley • Psychoanalysis
The Therapeutist by Rene Magritte (1937) Willed ignorance - against knowledge theories of suffering This essay continues our series on the philosophical problem posed by the emergence of self-destructive behaviors in human beings. There seems to be two moments within the event of understanding. In the first moment, the knower apprehends the thing being known. However, this moment is followed by a second in Matthew Stanley • Philosophy
