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 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 Stanley • Psychoanalysis
Transcript: What is jouissance? Transcript for latest Samsara Audio video "What is jouissance?" Matthew Stanley • Psychoanalysis
"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
