Andy Slade
@sladeanz.bsky.social
Professor, psychotherapist, psychoanalyst in training, father, catholic, reader, advisor
Stefano Bolognini at the IPA podcast. University faculty could well listen: we know students are different, but we seldom ask how faculty are different. ipaoffthecouch.org/2023/08/06/e...
Episode 140: Are Patients Different Today? with Stefano Bolognini, MD (Bologna)
ipaoffthecouch.org
April 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Stefano Bolognini at the IPA podcast. University faculty could well listen: we know students are different, but we seldom ask how faculty are different. ipaoffthecouch.org/2023/08/06/e...
"To take a stand for the common good is on the one hand to be solicitous for, and on the other hand to avail oneself of, that complex of institutions that give structure to the life of society, juridically, civilly, politically and culturally, making it the pólis, or “city”."
--Caritas in Veritate
--Caritas in Veritate
March 30, 2025 at 12:10 AM
"To take a stand for the common good is on the one hand to be solicitous for, and on the other hand to avail oneself of, that complex of institutions that give structure to the life of society, juridically, civilly, politically and culturally, making it the pólis, or “city”."
--Caritas in Veritate
--Caritas in Veritate
"...not only do we do a service to charity enlightened by truth, but we also help give credibility to truth, demonstrating its persuasive and authenticating power in the practical setting of social living."
Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate
(I am shocked to be reading this, but here we are)
Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate
(I am shocked to be reading this, but here we are)
March 29, 2025 at 11:57 PM
"...not only do we do a service to charity enlightened by truth, but we also help give credibility to truth, demonstrating its persuasive and authenticating power in the practical setting of social living."
Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate
(I am shocked to be reading this, but here we are)
Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate
(I am shocked to be reading this, but here we are)
“Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.”
--Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
--Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
March 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
“Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.”
--Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
--Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"Simultaneously, though, he continued reminding himself that calm consideration--indeed, the calmest consideration--was far preferable to resolutions seized upon in despair."
--Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
--Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
February 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
"Simultaneously, though, he continued reminding himself that calm consideration--indeed, the calmest consideration--was far preferable to resolutions seized upon in despair."
--Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
--Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
"Human creations are easily destroyed, and science and technology, which have built them up, can also be used for their annihilation."
--Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
--Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
January 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"Human creations are easily destroyed, and science and technology, which have built them up, can also be used for their annihilation."
--Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
--Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
"A fragment of biography, a realistic story, a film seen, a lived experience, a childhood memory, an event--these all lose their status as reality and become 'characters' within a virtual reality that coincides with the intersubjective dream field."
--Civitarese and Ferro
--Civitarese and Ferro
December 25, 2024 at 6:30 PM
"A fragment of biography, a realistic story, a film seen, a lived experience, a childhood memory, an event--these all lose their status as reality and become 'characters' within a virtual reality that coincides with the intersubjective dream field."
--Civitarese and Ferro
--Civitarese and Ferro
"Antony said: He who sits alone and is quiet has escaped from three wars: hearing, speaking, seeing; but there is one thing against which he must continually fight: that is, his own heart."
--The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
--The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
December 19, 2024 at 1:43 PM
"Antony said: He who sits alone and is quiet has escaped from three wars: hearing, speaking, seeing; but there is one thing against which he must continually fight: that is, his own heart."
--The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
--The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
"... and if we are talking about adolescence, we are talking about adults, because no adults are all the time adult.... people are not just their own age; they are to some extent every age, or no age."
D.W. Winnicott--Aggression, Guilt and Reparation
D.W. Winnicott--Aggression, Guilt and Reparation
December 8, 2024 at 9:11 PM
"... and if we are talking about adolescence, we are talking about adults, because no adults are all the time adult.... people are not just their own age; they are to some extent every age, or no age."
D.W. Winnicott--Aggression, Guilt and Reparation
D.W. Winnicott--Aggression, Guilt and Reparation
"The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy, and intimacy creates understanding, understanding creates love, love conquers loneliness."
Anais Non, The Novel of the Future
Anais Non, The Novel of the Future
December 6, 2024 at 1:52 PM
"The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy, and intimacy creates understanding, understanding creates love, love conquers loneliness."
Anais Non, The Novel of the Future
Anais Non, The Novel of the Future
"'Let us set to work and stop proving things,' said Martin, 'for that is the only way to make life bearable.'"
Voltaire, Candide
Voltaire, Candide
December 1, 2024 at 3:33 PM
"'Let us set to work and stop proving things,' said Martin, 'for that is the only way to make life bearable.'"
Voltaire, Candide
Voltaire, Candide
"Leibniz realized that these questions were unanswerable: so he wrote thick books in which he did not agree with himself."
Voltaire--from his Philosophical Dictionary
Voltaire--from his Philosophical Dictionary
December 1, 2024 at 3:24 PM
"Leibniz realized that these questions were unanswerable: so he wrote thick books in which he did not agree with himself."
Voltaire--from his Philosophical Dictionary
Voltaire--from his Philosophical Dictionary
"The analysand emerges as deeply implicated in his or her suffering eve if not as the only agent or source of the pain. On this basis, though not in any strict sequence, the analysand is better able to envision and pursue desirable alternatives..."
Roy Schafer, The Analytic Attitude
Roy Schafer, The Analytic Attitude
November 23, 2024 at 3:33 PM
"The analysand emerges as deeply implicated in his or her suffering eve if not as the only agent or source of the pain. On this basis, though not in any strict sequence, the analysand is better able to envision and pursue desirable alternatives..."
Roy Schafer, The Analytic Attitude
Roy Schafer, The Analytic Attitude
"With every inane word a little nearer to the last. And how the fable too. The fable of one with you in the dark. The fable of one fabling of one with you in the dark. And how better in the end labor lost and silence. And you as you always were.
Alone."
Samuel Beckett, Company
Alone."
Samuel Beckett, Company
November 21, 2024 at 4:32 PM
"With every inane word a little nearer to the last. And how the fable too. The fable of one with you in the dark. The fable of one fabling of one with you in the dark. And how better in the end labor lost and silence. And you as you always were.
Alone."
Samuel Beckett, Company
Alone."
Samuel Beckett, Company
"Chests, especially small caskets, over which we have more complete mastery, are objects that may be opened."
Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
November 20, 2024 at 6:35 PM
"Chests, especially small caskets, over which we have more complete mastery, are objects that may be opened."
Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
"An analyst's task is to stimulate a learning process in the patient, by means of which the patient can discover his or her own truth and put it to good use"
--Owen Renik, Practical Psychoanalysis for Therapists and Patients.
--maybe also the professor's task for the student...
--Owen Renik, Practical Psychoanalysis for Therapists and Patients.
--maybe also the professor's task for the student...
November 19, 2024 at 3:56 PM
"An analyst's task is to stimulate a learning process in the patient, by means of which the patient can discover his or her own truth and put it to good use"
--Owen Renik, Practical Psychoanalysis for Therapists and Patients.
--maybe also the professor's task for the student...
--Owen Renik, Practical Psychoanalysis for Therapists and Patients.
--maybe also the professor's task for the student...
..."worrying--as a reflex response to demand--never puts the self or the objects of its interest into question, and that is precisely its function in psychic life. It domesticates self-doubt."
--Adam Phillips, "Worrying and its Discontents."
--Adam Phillips, "Worrying and its Discontents."
November 18, 2024 at 6:25 PM
..."worrying--as a reflex response to demand--never puts the self or the objects of its interest into question, and that is precisely its function in psychic life. It domesticates self-doubt."
--Adam Phillips, "Worrying and its Discontents."
--Adam Phillips, "Worrying and its Discontents."
"As a metaphor for the unhoped for, the notion of a treasure found by chance shows that in reality the only treasure is the unhoped for itself which escapes those who seek." Jean-Louis Chretien, The Unforgettable and the Unhoped For.
November 17, 2024 at 3:24 PM
"As a metaphor for the unhoped for, the notion of a treasure found by chance shows that in reality the only treasure is the unhoped for itself which escapes those who seek." Jean-Louis Chretien, The Unforgettable and the Unhoped For.
"I have come to abolish sacrifices, and unless you abandon sacrificing, God's wrath will not abandon you." The Gospel of the Ebionites.
November 16, 2024 at 6:19 PM
"I have come to abolish sacrifices, and unless you abandon sacrificing, God's wrath will not abandon you." The Gospel of the Ebionites.
"The false promise of a life of the mind is as seductive now as it was to Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, who sold his soul to the devil for knowledge." M.L Rio, "All Academia is Dark Academia" in Electric Literature.
November 16, 2024 at 1:30 PM
"The false promise of a life of the mind is as seductive now as it was to Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, who sold his soul to the devil for knowledge." M.L Rio, "All Academia is Dark Academia" in Electric Literature.
"Nights when we have slept are as if they had never been. The only ones that remain in our memory are the ones when we couldn't close our eyes: night means sleepless night." E.M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born.
November 15, 2024 at 7:29 PM
"Nights when we have slept are as if they had never been. The only ones that remain in our memory are the ones when we couldn't close our eyes: night means sleepless night." E.M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born.
"It is easier to make bad out of good than good out of evil. Never try to teach me. I am too old to be taught." Theognis of Megara
November 14, 2024 at 4:11 PM
"It is easier to make bad out of good than good out of evil. Never try to teach me. I am too old to be taught." Theognis of Megara
"Faced with the absolute of power, words can only stick in your throat, where they are held in reserve for their own preservation." Sarah Kofman, Paroles Suffoquees (Smothered Words).
November 13, 2024 at 6:30 PM
"Faced with the absolute of power, words can only stick in your throat, where they are held in reserve for their own preservation." Sarah Kofman, Paroles Suffoquees (Smothered Words).
"You look at this shape, and as you do so you realize its infernal power, its abominable frailty, its weakness, the unconquerable strength of its incomparable weakness." Marguerite Duras, The Malady of Death
November 12, 2024 at 8:25 PM
"You look at this shape, and as you do so you realize its infernal power, its abominable frailty, its weakness, the unconquerable strength of its incomparable weakness." Marguerite Duras, The Malady of Death
"The death of the marshes fills Lol with a frightful sadness, she waits, anticipates it, sees it happen. She recognizes it." Marguerite Duras, The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein
November 11, 2024 at 6:35 PM
"The death of the marshes fills Lol with a frightful sadness, she waits, anticipates it, sees it happen. She recognizes it." Marguerite Duras, The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein