#kleinian

[numb3rth30ry]

Danny Calegari’s “Schottky polyhedron.”

Mathematics is beautiful. <3 

[gilly-psycho-journal]

Psychoanalyzing the coronavirus: This is what happens to our mind under a mortal threat | Opinion

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Two types of reactions are liable to arise in the face of this threat. One rejects the reality and the second accepts it and “works with it.” We all fluctuate between the two throughout our lives. In the more primitive position, which I call “the reality refusal position” (and which the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein referred to as the “paranoid-schizoid position”), the mind reacts with denial and a sense of omnipotence on the one hand and panic, exaggeration and helplessness on the other.

[ixxra]

Most conferences are in spanish. Sorry =(

[thegoodenoughblogger]

The splitting of things into 'good' and 'bad' is fundamental to the organisation of the child's psyche, something like the zeros and ones that make up the language of computers - a simple opposition that can be gradually developed and elaborated on in order to perform more complex relations.

Anouchka Grose has Kleinan moment

[odettecarotte]

I...reflected that the connections, scantily investigated to date, I felt, between goodness and evil in the same heart, various as they might be, would be an interesting area of study.

Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way, p. 283