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Desire, love & transference
Essays on love, the analytic encounter, responsibility, and the positions from which we speak.
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Sorry, Baby (2025): Film Analysis
Sorry, Baby is a rigorous meditation on trauma, subjectivity, and the unstable aftermath of sexual violence. Rather than reducing trauma to a single event, I argue that the film locates the traumatic in the subject’s…
Read essayMarty Supreme (2026): Film Analysis
A Lacanian reading of Marty Supreme reveals a film structured by obsessional desire, maternal enigma, paternal absence, and the fantasy of total satisfaction. Marty’s pursuit of table-tennis supremacy becomes an Oedipal drama of deferral, humiliation,…
Read essayWhen Reflection Does Not Implicate
In analytic work one often encounters subjects who speak with ease. They reflect, explain, analyse, and articulate their condition with clarity. They can recount their history, describe their relations to others, and situate their difficulties…
Read essayWhat Makes the Desire of the Analyst
The text discusses the motivations behind becoming a psychoanalyst, emphasizing that intentions of healing and understanding typically stem from fantasy, which misaligns with the true role of an analyst. It argues that actual desire for…
Read essayFeelings Are Always Reciprocal
Lacan reminds us: love is not necessarily mutual. In analysis, it is the patient who loves, and the analyst who listens. This non-reciprocal love—far from being cold—is what makes psychoanalysis possible. Only by refusing to…
Read essayDemand (minus – ) Need (equals = ) Desire
Babies and cats are spoiled and selfish creatures. That is why, whenever I am faced with my cat’s selfish narcissistic tendencies, I ask myself – “can these creatures even have the capacity to love?” Faced…
Read essay“There is no sexual relationship”
Wherever we look around us – especially while in a morose and misanthropic mood – we see “relationships”. Now, strictly philosophically speaking, a “relationship” is a concept designating an element which mediates between two things.…
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