Samuel Baudinette
@sambaudinette.bsky.social
phd from uchicago. once a scholar of the middle ages, philosophy, theology, and religion. now an aspiring psychoanalyst obsessed with surrealism. on the aristotelian left
My cat Bruno clearly approves of thanksgiving dinner since he is gazing upon my wife’s plate with such desperate yearning.
November 27, 2025 at 10:44 PM
My cat Bruno clearly approves of thanksgiving dinner since he is gazing upon my wife’s plate with such desperate yearning.
The entry on mothering according to Paul-Claude Racamier in “The Language of Psychoanalysis” by Laplanche and Pontalis, as well as the entry on Marguerite Sechehaye’s technique of symbolic realization.
November 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The entry on mothering according to Paul-Claude Racamier in “The Language of Psychoanalysis” by Laplanche and Pontalis, as well as the entry on Marguerite Sechehaye’s technique of symbolic realization.
Here are two acts of defacements I saw last weekend (on the purple line).
November 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Here are two acts of defacements I saw last weekend (on the purple line).
I borrowed out from the library the two books by Annie Le Brun that have been translated into English. One of them, a polemic against postmodern theory and postmodern existence, was published by a libertarian new age press (which I don’t find very auspicious). But the study of Sade looks cool!
November 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I borrowed out from the library the two books by Annie Le Brun that have been translated into English. One of them, a polemic against postmodern theory and postmodern existence, was published by a libertarian new age press (which I don’t find very auspicious). But the study of Sade looks cool!
The interview concludes with a critique of Deleuze and Foucault
November 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The interview concludes with a critique of Deleuze and Foucault
I have discovered a few things about the original owner of these books! They were a psychology major at North Park College trying to take a class on Marxist-Leninist theory in 1976-77. They were also apparently interested in Wilhelm Reich.
November 23, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I have discovered a few things about the original owner of these books! They were a psychology major at North Park College trying to take a class on Marxist-Leninist theory in 1976-77. They were also apparently interested in Wilhelm Reich.
Just picked these up from Books 4 Cause, the big free library in Logan Square!
November 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Just picked these up from Books 4 Cause, the big free library in Logan Square!
Freud, in “The Question of Lay Analysis,” on the magic of the word:
November 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Freud, in “The Question of Lay Analysis,” on the magic of the word:
It looks like Sullivan (who I have learned is a feminist philosopher who belongs to the pragmatist tradition) has produced a book that develops the Laplanchian conception of the racial unconscious she articulates in this article. I’m going to track it down and give it a read.
November 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
It looks like Sullivan (who I have learned is a feminist philosopher who belongs to the pragmatist tradition) has produced a book that develops the Laplanchian conception of the racial unconscious she articulates in this article. I’m going to track it down and give it a read.
Compare these reflections to Magritte’s critique (channeling the Theses on Feuerbach) of those surrealists who, like philosophers, merely seek to understand the world rather than transform it.
November 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Compare these reflections to Magritte’s critique (channeling the Theses on Feuerbach) of those surrealists who, like philosophers, merely seek to understand the world rather than transform it.
René Magritte in this short autobiographical reflection describes how his discovery of Marxism and Surrealism confirmed his artistic “will to [act] upon the real, for a transformation of life itself.” Following Nietzsche, he also identifies this will as explicitly anti-Christian.
November 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
René Magritte in this short autobiographical reflection describes how his discovery of Marxism and Surrealism confirmed his artistic “will to [act] upon the real, for a transformation of life itself.” Following Nietzsche, he also identifies this will as explicitly anti-Christian.
I’m now reading this Laplanchean account of the formation of a racialized unconscious.
November 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I’m now reading this Laplanchean account of the formation of a racialized unconscious.
Which gives rise to Laplanche’s “translational” model of psychoanalysis (and of the unconscious).
November 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Which gives rise to Laplanche’s “translational” model of psychoanalysis (and of the unconscious).
This all matters, for Laplanche, because psychoanalysis must take some distance from the myths it has helped to clarify while also resisting the tendency to “devalue repression as the origin of the unconscious” by giving into phylogenetic hypotheses about “primal fantasies.”
November 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This all matters, for Laplanche, because psychoanalysis must take some distance from the myths it has helped to clarify while also resisting the tendency to “devalue repression as the origin of the unconscious” by giving into phylogenetic hypotheses about “primal fantasies.”
This insight, incidentally, forms part of a Laplanchian critique of the analyst who castrates (the Lacanian who introduces a “cut” into the free flow of associations in order to reorient the analysand’s imaginary identifications toward the symbolic or Law).
November 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This insight, incidentally, forms part of a Laplanchian critique of the analyst who castrates (the Lacanian who introduces a “cut” into the free flow of associations in order to reorient the analysand’s imaginary identifications toward the symbolic or Law).
I’m always glad to see practicing psychoanalysts in America reckon with the critical theory of the Frankfurt School in order to reflect upon the politics of their profession. But this discussion of Freud and reference to Adorno—as well as the conclusions drawn from it—are very superficial!
November 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I’m always glad to see practicing psychoanalysts in America reckon with the critical theory of the Frankfurt School in order to reflect upon the politics of their profession. But this discussion of Freud and reference to Adorno—as well as the conclusions drawn from it—are very superficial!
Fascinating letter where Winnicott declares war against behavioral therapy and states his desire to “kill” it (through ridicule) as a tendency in social work.
November 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Fascinating letter where Winnicott declares war against behavioral therapy and states his desire to “kill” it (through ridicule) as a tendency in social work.
In memory of Jonathan Lear my psychoanalytic institute is hosting a seminar this afternoon to discuss this paper on death and the work of mourning. I’m going to try to attend if I can.
November 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
In memory of Jonathan Lear my psychoanalytic institute is hosting a seminar this afternoon to discuss this paper on death and the work of mourning. I’m going to try to attend if I can.
Two passages where the surrealist Claude Cahun discusses the relationship between artistic and poetic revolution and the liberation of the proletariat.
November 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Two passages where the surrealist Claude Cahun discusses the relationship between artistic and poetic revolution and the liberation of the proletariat.
A Trotskyist denunciation of Carl Jung’s analytical psychology published in 1945:
www.marxists.org/history/etol...
www.marxists.org/history/etol...
November 18, 2025 at 2:18 AM
A Trotskyist denunciation of Carl Jung’s analytical psychology published in 1945:
www.marxists.org/history/etol...
www.marxists.org/history/etol...
Anyone in religious studies or who works on the history of Christianity have thoughts about April D. DeConick’s “The Gnostic New Age?”
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Anyone in religious studies or who works on the history of Christianity have thoughts about April D. DeConick’s “The Gnostic New Age?”
I found an English translation of Heraclitus in a little free library yesterday but was horrified to discover after opening it this morning that the introductory forward, written by James Hillman, is all about how to read Heraclitus as an introduction to “archetypal thinking.”
November 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I found an English translation of Heraclitus in a little free library yesterday but was horrified to discover after opening it this morning that the introductory forward, written by James Hillman, is all about how to read Heraclitus as an introduction to “archetypal thinking.”
I’m heading up north to Evanston today to attend this year’s Lacanian Linking Seminar dedicated to “the clinic at the horizon of subjectivity.” The orienting argument of the seminar is provided below. I also read pieces by Miller and Rollier to prepare.
www.speakingbody.com/linking-semi...
www.speakingbody.com/linking-semi...
November 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I’m heading up north to Evanston today to attend this year’s Lacanian Linking Seminar dedicated to “the clinic at the horizon of subjectivity.” The orienting argument of the seminar is provided below. I also read pieces by Miller and Rollier to prepare.
www.speakingbody.com/linking-semi...
www.speakingbody.com/linking-semi...