My big sister Raquelle just passed away on Wednesday.
Losing her ability to walk didn't stop us getting wheelchair accessible seats for Janet Jackson's 2023 tour. This is us grooving to "Together Again." I'm glad I captured the moment. She was my ryde-or-die. I miss her so bad right now.
I’m really sorry to hear this. I’m sending all my thoughts to you and your family. 💜
Safe Space by @kevonstage.bsky.social
You’re the hero I’ve been holding out for. (This now completes all pun-related references to this soundtrack—excluding the titular track—which I know).
Im glad you’re recognizing its greatness. Let’s hear it for the boy.
Google Docs keeps autocorrecting "decolonialism" to "colonialism" and at first I was angry, then bothered.
Now I'm paranoid.
*to his analysand Donald Winnicott*
“If you are applying psychoanalytic treatment to children you should meet Melanie Klein. She is saying some things that may or may not be true, & you must find out for yourself for you will not get what Melanie Klein teaches in my analysis with you” - James Strachey to his analyst d Donald Winnicott
I appreciate Aron’s discussion of the roles of symmetry & mutuality. Celenza explored the erotic dimensions here. Of course, Ferenczi tried some bold things.
That being said, it is woefully underdiscussed and under analyzed. PsyA historically has had a very difficult time acknowledging its power.
Section VII seems like the only logical choice.
… that is personal to the other person and to the history of their relationship. A quality that often characterizes this kind of analytic dialogue is the feeling that the analyst and analysand are each finding out what he thinks in the very act of speaking.” Ogden, What I Would Not Part With
… generate understandings, not confusion; to say what is true to one’s emotional experience, not to pervert the truth.
The analyst, when talking to a patient in his own voice, does not sound ‘like an analyst’; his voice is that of an ordinary person speaking to another ordinary person in a way
“When analyst and analysand are able to think and speak for themselves, they do not use ‘borrowed language,’ e.g., jargon, cliche and technical terms. Their language tends to be alive, their metaphors freshly minted and unassuming. Their use of language serves to communicate, not obfuscate, to
John Forté, grab the mic, let’s sway this way.
“I’m discussing the history of the psychoanalytic movement, Freud stated that in his view a therapy is psychoanalytic if it takes as its starting point an understanding of transference and resistance” THO
Yet many wanna claim it’s the couch or number of sessions.
“It is hoped that the therapist, because of greater psychological integration resulting from his own developmental experience & analysis, is less frightened of, & less prone to run from [highly charged, painful, conflict-laden] feelings than is the patient” - Ogden
Louis Johnson is brilliant. His tasteful use of slap (often overdone) in this song is amazing. He plays the whole song finger style funk and just steps into this brilliant slap solo for 30 seconds then lays right back into the groove.
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This is an interesting thread and that type of analysis would be helpful in a legal sense. I also can’t help but say that any reasonable person who watched that video without bias would easily arrive at the same conclusion.
Workspace/Playspace
An essay on Venezuela, from Venezuelan psychoanalyst Caros Padrón.
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Grant Green
Paco de Lucia
Wes Montgomery
Prince
Leo Nocentelli
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Chuck Berry
Nile Rodgers
Curtis Mayfield
HER
I discovered ChatGPT had a voice function. Cycling through the voices, I noticed they were all white. I mentioned this to ChatGPT. It denied it. I repeated my concern, & it said it was going for a neutral voice. Right. Because whiteness is standardized, normalized, & rendered neutral or “given.”
🧵 Drinking less in the new year.
I've seen online and in my personal life that many people are setting New Year's Resolutions to drink less or quit drinking altogether.
A few thoughts from a therapist's perspective:
This album had me an absolute chokehold for years. Everyone loves Baseball, but Watch Roger Do His Thing was my favorite.
They won’t be.
“As of this morning…”
How many “constitutional crises” have already been identified. We have not been governed by the laws of the constitution this entire term. Cmon now.
And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Years Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of the life to start as soon as possible.
This is good news. And would been better news in 2006.
