An Inconsolable Demand: Lament, Desire, Hope What if we defined lament not as the mourning of a loss, but the refusal to accept any consolation for that loss? Matthew Stanley • Theology
"Almayer's Folly" by Rene Magritte (1951) Transitional discourses and getting (un-)stuck What happens when our transitional object stick around to long? And could certain discourses serve the role of something like a transitional object in people's lives in the broader process of their becoming? Matthew Stanley • Buddhism
Gauguin's hut in Tahiti, photo by Jules Agostini (1896) How to change the past To progress from ignorance to knowledge, we require this intermediary moment where we posit the truth as lost and in need of recovery. This loss is precisely what catalyzes our search, and the result of this search is the production of the truth. Matthew Stanley • Philosophy
I was naked, and I hid myself This knowledge that we are "naked" – is it not the most human of notions? To realize that one is naked is to have a sudden realization of one's lack! Matthew Stanley • Psychoanalysis
"Two Comedians" by Edward Hopper (1965) Hegel and the Lateralized Brain The lateralized brain and Hegel's divided Whole are correlates of each other in that the gap in matter is re-doubled at the level of mind. Matthew Stanley • Psychoanalysis
Žižek's latest book Freedom: A Disease without Cure, released October 5th, 2023 (Link below) Book Review: Slavoj Žižek's "Freedom - A Disease without Cure" If the contradictory experience of freedom which Žižek describes is accurate, then we must acknowledge that alienation is an essential part of freedom. Matthew Stanley • Psychoanalysis
