Woke up to a note from ___ describing the corporeal revulsion, nausea, anxiety, shiver of this stiff academic environment. It doesn't affect me like that... I'm accumstomed to it but feel a bit ashamed to be.

Maintaining psychoanalytic neutrality - to not become involved in the subjective circle which could initiate a regression back into paranoia. Perverts actually do what hysterics only fantasize about. Hysterics are ambiguous, revolting secretly against a master to provoke an authentic forceful master - a false revolution. A pervert has no unconscious, instead directly externalizing the mechanisms of desire. For Lacan, a pervert has answers: they know without asking questions, i.e.: Stalinism. Hysteria is that of a question. Hysteria is a reaction to the discourse of the master, the dominant interpolation.

Mladen Dolar: Beyond Interpolation: hysteria is the ultimate critique of theology/ideology. Subjectivity is fundamentally hysterical. Knowing that we don't know is not yet subjectivity, just alienation. Subjectivity begins when one realizes that the other-in-relation also doesn't know. Alienation is the ultimate myth. All this is a part of the symbolic exchange of ideology. Love is precisely built upon a singular proposition.

Theory of predestination: we can create the symbolic frame of our past, retroactively creating its own necessity. Once the event occurs it becomes necessary. TS Elliot: essay on modern art: every new artwork influences the present moment as well as retroactively adjusting/aligning the past. If something happens consistently it retroactively creates the necessity of its own destiny.

A pathetic choice: to be condemned to your freedom. The lesson of psychoanalysis: we are each responsible for our own necessities. Alenka Zupančič: The Ethics of the Real : doing your duty is no excuse for not doing your duty, determining your own duty.

Jean-luc Dupuy : The Dark Deleuze

Zizek: Organs without Bodies

The Trouble with Pleasure

Deleuze: The Logic of Sense: the flux of becoming is an affect, but as such it's crucial.

The model for beginning: symbolic beginning, the logos, searching for the right word(s). God created the world as a form of therapy to save himself from his own madness.

Schelling: on the essence of human freedom

Ages of the world fragments

The word - logos - emerged to alleviate a primordial tension, for nature to articulate its own pain.

"Iceland is a not yet finished creation."

Determinate negation: a thing is defined by what it is not. Abstract vs. concrete negation: coffee without milk or coffee without cream. Zizek wants to know as little as possible.

TS Elliot: The Wasteland: footnotes are part of the poem = loss of innocence in modern art.

Symptom: an element of truth in a general context of a lie. Classic Marxism dictates the eternal return of the oppressed. Ideology is never purely a lie, it requires the return of the oppressed. Fetish: a reversal, a lie which allows one to endure the truth. Today, democracy is the fetish that allows us to ignore the horrors of the world.

A good psychoanalytic intervention is always like a punchline of a joke.