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The Evolution of Language

My sister’s comment about my desk being an island in a sea of books is both not wrong, and got me thinking about why I own so many books. Firstly, as I have discussed elsewhere, they are a bit of a security blanket. The First Reader refers to the home library as my dragon’s hoard. I’ve been forced to dispose of my library too many times in my life, either by external agents, or exigencies of…

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Faces Turned to the Past

I have been listening to audiobooks and podcasts at work to pass the time, and have discovered that while I thought that audiobooks were far too slow, and narrator’s voices annoying, with further exploration I found some that work for me, by accelerating playback speed and choosing non-fiction. I do have one fiction I’m listening to, but it’s the pair of chemistry books that are catching my…

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The analyst’s ‘work of figurability’is the achievement of allowing his or her own mind to undergo this retrogressive movement, when that is needed in order to accompany the patient’s mind.‘Achievement’because the experience can be disturbing and disorganising for the analyst as well as the patient.But the analyst’s mind, being more mobile along this axis of representability/nonrepresentability, may be able psychically to register a perception of the void and bring it into the realm of the representable.The analyst may then be able to find a way of articulating it to the patient as a representation that can be made use of. It is important that this work of figurability ‘originates in community with the patient’s psychic functioning’.This means that when the understanding in terms of representation can finally be reached, it has a sense of meaning and conviction for the patient.

The Work of Psychic Figurability Mental States without Representation César Botella and Sára Botella

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Spring in Harlem

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Sometimes I feel so stifled, as though things are moving retrogressively, inside of progressively. As though I’m learning backwards – relearning everything over and over again, but in a more mediocre way than I’d originally learned it. Feels like a waste then. Waste waste waste. Always wasting things away – especially time.

Log 1, When nothing works out

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