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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 3h

My article on Albert the Great’s argument about the difference between philosophical and Christian contemplation has just been published today in the latest Archa verbi subsidia. The volume is Open Access so check it out if you’re curious!

www.aschendorff-buchverlag.de/digibib/?dig...

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 1d

Treat tools like people so you can treat people like tools

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 1d

The wild part of the paper to me is their claim that this structure of misrecognition (the body image) constituted through mirroring can be located in the right hemisphere of the brain but that there doesn’t seem to be anything neurological that corresponds to a “true self” in the Winnicottian sense

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 1d

The move being made in this article is to argue following Lacan that the body-image that grounds the ego ideal is a structure of misrecognition rather than something that grows out of the interaction between an infant and a parent whose loving gaze and caresses facilitates the emergence of a self.

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 1d

I think the neuroscientific understanding of the role that mirror neurons play in “mentalization” and the process of intersubjective recognition is closer to Winnicott’s understanding of mirroring than that of Lacan’s. At least, that’s what I gather from reading Fonagy.

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 1d

I just discovered an article that promises to offer something that I did not consider possible: a Lacanian theory of neuropsychoanalysis (or a neuropsychoanalytic approach to Lacan)!

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll be honest: I’ve relied on readings of Honneth by Jessica Benjamin (sympathetic) and Joel Whitebook (critical) to furnish most of my knowledge of Honneth’s work and his place in the history of the Frankfurt School tradition. But I need to do my own reading now, I think.

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 1d

I have dabbled in some Honneth. But I’ve never tackled any of the big books. I guess I am realizing that I might have to now.

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 1d

With mounting horror I am starting to realize that to *properly* understand certain tendencies within American relational psychoanalysis I will have to read closely Axel Honneth’s work on the philosophy and politics of recognition.

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 1d

I think it’s a very handsome book. And a pleasure to read (both for that reason and because Bollas is a wonderful prose stylist).

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 1d

Clearly I once read this at a moment where I was trying to translate Winnicottian object relations into a more Lacanian form. It would be interesting, however, to make sense of Bollas’s conception of affects, objects and analytic intuition (“sensing”) by reading him in a Deleuzo-Guattarian manner.

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 1d

I also apparently redescribed Bollas’s concept of personal idiom (which he designates “the evocative world of objects”) in another annotation as “desire’s linguistic form.”

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 1d

I just noticed an old annotation in the margins of the chapter on expressive use of the countertransference where I glossed a reference by Bollas to Winnicott’s notion of the true self as “desire, the libido, the non-compliant.”

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 1d

Rereading Christopher Bollas for class this week.

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 2d

Psychoanalysts, and the psychoanalytic ally curious, may find this upcoming event dedicated to a discussion of “French Psychoanalysis” organized by the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society of interest:

chicagopsychoanalyticsociety.org/event-6384842

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 2d

“At the very instant that I write ’neuronal man,’ I contradict myself by addressing a reader and attempting to convince him according to an order of reasons and not an order of neurons.”

Jean Laplanche

Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 7d

I’m still trying to make more sense of the “neural turn” in the humanities and the “psy” disciplines. Reading these two pieces this morning, alongside an essay by Mark Solms that’s assigned reading for my neuropsychoanalysis class.

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 2d

“I will not deliver a lecture on Lacanianism. I don’t know whether it is still fashionable these days to read Lacan. It would, in any event, be advisable to recommend [him] to those who are not inclined to orthodoxy in their reading.”

Laplanche, “Seduction, Persecution, Revelation.”

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 2d

In this passage Jean Laplanche speaks of “situating” and “setting adrift” Freud’s conception of sublimation (as inspiration). I find it odd that the editorial footnote locates Laplanche’s terminology here to Lacan when he is so obviously in conversation with Guy Debord (too?)!

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 3d

You owe it to yourself to read this story if you haven’t ever done so before!

www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/t...

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 3d

For whatever reason, whenever I read or think about DWW’s claim that “it is a joy to be hidden but a disaster not to be found,” I recall the line from “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “it is so pleasant to be out in this great room and creep around as I please!”

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 3d

I think this is important because the concept of “metabolization” (or of metabole as transformation) is *central* to both Laplanche and Bion’s account of unconscious processes/thinking.

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 3d

I would add: this is what Bion and Ignacio Matte-Blanco also attempted to theorize in their mathematical model of the mind and in their theory of thinking (although in a Kantian, rather than Hegelian, and a Kleinian, rather than Freudian, manner).

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 3d

“Is there such a thing as non-binary thought? Can one ‘think the unthinkable?’ This is what Hegel asks us or rather challenges us to take up.”

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 3d

“The break-in, the intrusion, of a logicist structuralism into the theory of the unconscious can be illuminated by using the terms ‘digital’ and ‘analogue’; one thinks for instance of the two types of watch face described by those terms.”

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 3d

“A structuralist psychoanalysis is content with a binarism that is juridical, totalizing, and without subtlety and always bears the trace of normativity.”

Jean Laplanche, “Structuralism before Psychoanalysis”

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