Last week the debate between CBT and psycho-dynamic therapy was once again relaunched on the back of a sizeable new study supporting the long-term effectiveness of the latter psycho-dynamic therapy that derives its "talking cure" from Freudian metapsychology. Of course, everything has its critics. The story in the Sydney Morning Herald offered a ( Read more... )

The university has agreed to let me run a philosophy school over the winter break: two intensive weeks of contemporary philosophy and popular culture! It's quite a coup because the whole thing is my baby and could be the new regularly appearing course in the Contemporary Culture and Society major (basically sociology/philosophy/political economy) ( Read more... )

This is the conclusion from an article I just sent off to S in an attempt to shake the branches of Lacanian ideology-critique by hammering away at its roots.

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Lacan and science. Science and truth. Truth is not facts. Facts are science. Science is knowledge. Knowledge is not knowing. Knowing is the subject, or, the subject wants to know. And knowing is to know knowledge out... there ( Read more... )

I'm quietly impressed with Richard D. Chessick's The Future of Psychoanalysis. So far I'm five chapters in and enjoying his controlled diversions into poststructuralism (finally, inspiration to write that damned encyclopaedia entry), the problems with translating Dante or Freud, and the outline of several major strands of psychoanalysis and ' ( Read more... )

Damn, brisneyland has gotten an air of bitchiness to it lately. It's usually such a harmless community of harpers sharing their wares and wisdom that this new phase of impetulant malignancy will probably pass by soon enough ( Read more... )

So "Some french dude ripped off my website but still linked over to my images so I hooked ‘em up with a little custom weenie treat. You gotta visit the actual links on this one and scroll to get the full effect.But what really makes the entry fun, is the twist in the Frenchman's url "http:// ( Read more... )

Yesterday the acting director of the Masters of Psychoanalytic Studies from Deakin, Associate Professor Douglas Kirsner, returned my call. He sounded ecstatic that I was interested in undertaking their Masters course externally, and when I flagged my two reasons for wanting to undertake it (wanting a more rounded view of psychoanalysis and its ( Read more... )

Plan C: setting sun on the rebus
Rationale: I'm feeling a little bit green around the edges on psychoanalysis, but all the post-doc topics are headed in that direction so perhaps it would be wise to up-skill and use part of the time to publish more in the psychoanalysis-friendly journals.

• Finish PhD before June, 2008
  
• Retain contract/sessional work ( Read more... )

Le séminaire. Livre XXIII, Le sinthome, Seuil, 2005 ( Read more... )