everyone’s reading Janet Malcolm’s In the Freud Archives. everyone’s discussing the case of Elisabeth von R. people are putting down their CBT workbooks and writing down their dreams…they’re thinking about defenses…it’s happening for real
@coopercooperco His latest is amazing, by far his best and most distilled imo. He also has written lots of excellent short stories for the New Yorker that are worth checking out.
@weiss_hadas love when a reviewer lambasts the imagined readers of a book and critiques them for their failures to grasp x y or z. like that reader is you, baby
@JRichWords is this not just a classic case of projective identification. the argument is that people (bad ones, not good ones like the author of this review) identify with the protagonist in a way that prevents them from accessing something called "real art."
“boo hoo I don’t like Wes Anderson I can’t enjoy a Lacanian conservative fantasia even though it’s soooo pretty and sooo funny and basically the only place you can see Hollywood movie stars involved with sophisticated and rewarding material” - some of you
If we're all just using "compulsory heterosexuality" to mean heterosexuality is socially determined, then homosexuality is also compulsory. It's not like you're escaping social relations by being gay or lesbian or whatever. i'm regretting posting this as i type it.
Try as one might, the chic-obsessed pretentious contrarian is still drawn to the mitski-listening teenage self, forever drawn to that cloying void of ‘tenderness’