What sort of problem is a human? I was at work on a summer afternoon in 2018 when I received a surprising email. It was the editor from a journal I had forgotten I'd submitted a paper to. I only let that trip me up for a moment though, because he was saying that the Matthew Stanley • Theology
Snow on the Haystacks, by Monet Fearing the gap - how Lacan's thought derives from Saussure 📚I recommend reading these crucial couple of pages from Saussure's Course in General Linguistics to derive the most value from this essay! In his Seminar VI: Desire and its Interpretation, Jacques Lacan briefly states that “a signifier does not concern a third thing that it supposedly represents but Matthew Stanley • Psychoanalysis
Notes on chapter 1 of Sartre's "Transcendence of the Ego" Today I'm sharing my notes on the first chapter of Jean-Paul Sartre's Transcendence of the Ego. The notes provide a blow by blow of each of the chapter's main three sections, including some especially relevant quotes. I dug into this book at the behest Matthew Stanley • Philosophy
How Freud pioneered a structuralist trajectory to Brentano's phenomenology The phenomenological method as developed by Edmund Husserl continues to exert influence over contemporary metapsychological conversations, but it remains haunted by an unresolved tension regarding the nature of the "I", or the Latin ego. On the one hand, the practice of phenomenology assumes the intentionality of consciousness whereby Matthew Stanley • Philosophy
Regression to an Imagined Past: Deconstructing the Childhood Friend in Anime Anime relies heavily on tropes, which means that viewers will encounter similar character patterns repeatedly as they watch large amounts of anime. I find the variations of the ‘childhood friend’ (osananajimi) trope particularly fascinating, largely because I had such a figure in my own life, a girl I'd Matthew Stanley • Philosophy
"the formation of the earth in vivid color" by DALL-E The stars have no happenings: assessing Meillassoux's ancestrality challenge Meillassoux's challenge for "correlationism" At the outset of his book After Finitude, Quentin Meillassoux proposes a thought experiment which he believes poses a problem for all "correlationist" philosophies, namely, those philosophies which claim that "we only ever have access to the correlation between Matthew Stanley • Philosophy
