Janet Malcolm, In the Freud Archives

Sontag after 9/11, what a badass

It is as if I have a sneaking feeling that some people do find life not too bad
(From winnicott’s case history)

Erving Goffman: We will want to ask, 'What are the ways in which a given impression can be discredited?' and this is not quite the same as asking, "What are the ways in which the given impression is false?"

from Bootycandy by Robert O'Hara

Taussig on mimesis structuralism and the university

Taussig, “I so badly want that wink told recognition, that complicity with the nature of nature… which leaves us in this silly and often desperate place wanting the impossible so badly that we believe it’s our rightful destiny and so act as accomplices of the real

Victor Turner (in an essay by Matthew Engelke) on religious belief and anthropology

Carrington, Down Below

Verhaeghe on Freud