Samuel Baudinette
@sambaudinette.bsky.social
phd from uchicago. once a scholar of the middle ages, philosophy, theology, and religion. now an aspiring psychoanalyst obsessed with surrealism. on the aristotelian left
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David Lomas, “The Haunted Self: Surrealism, Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity.”
I just discovered this cool little essay that Gary Indiana wrote about Unica Zürn. Not surprised he was a fan!
“For many sensitive souls, the possibilities of self-reinvention are exhausted long before any sort of natural death. Unica Zürn was one of these.”
www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
“For many sensitive souls, the possibilities of self-reinvention are exhausted long before any sort of natural death. Unica Zürn was one of these.”
www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
A Stone for Unica Zürn
Gary Indiana reviews a show of works by Surrealist artist and writer Unica Zurn at the Drawing Center in New York.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I just discovered this cool little essay that Gary Indiana wrote about Unica Zürn. Not surprised he was a fan!
“For many sensitive souls, the possibilities of self-reinvention are exhausted long before any sort of natural death. Unica Zürn was one of these.”
www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
“For many sensitive souls, the possibilities of self-reinvention are exhausted long before any sort of natural death. Unica Zürn was one of these.”
www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
Reposted by Samuel Baudinette
This, from Adorno‘s Minima Moralia, is one of my favourite paragraphs of all time
November 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This, from Adorno‘s Minima Moralia, is one of my favourite paragraphs of all time
It is not lost on me that with my last name and with my interest in surrealism and Lacanianism that one might imagine me to be decidedly French in temperament. But I am sad to say that I am completely and even painfully Anglo-Australian and have studied too much German to ever be so!
November 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
It is not lost on me that with my last name and with my interest in surrealism and Lacanianism that one might imagine me to be decidedly French in temperament. But I am sad to say that I am completely and even painfully Anglo-Australian and have studied too much German to ever be so!
Unica Zürn, Oracles et spectacles, 1967.
November 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Unica Zürn, Oracles et spectacles, 1967.
“Expression with its pleasure component is a displaced pain and a deliverance.”
Hans Bellmer, “Little Anatomy of the Physical Unconscious.”
Hans Bellmer, “Little Anatomy of the Physical Unconscious.”
November 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
“Expression with its pleasure component is a displaced pain and a deliverance.”
Hans Bellmer, “Little Anatomy of the Physical Unconscious.”
Hans Bellmer, “Little Anatomy of the Physical Unconscious.”
Here are Jacques Lacan and Jacques-Alain Miller’s account of the department of psychoanalysis at Vincennes, as well as the critique of the same department by Gilles Deleuze and Jean-François Lyotard.
November 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Here are Jacques Lacan and Jacques-Alain Miller’s account of the department of psychoanalysis at Vincennes, as well as the critique of the same department by Gilles Deleuze and Jean-François Lyotard.
"I think it's 'better' to know the truth about one's self and the universe in which I exist. But I do not wish to imply that it is 'nicer' or 'pleasanter.'"
W.R. Bion, preface to “Seven Servants”
W.R. Bion, preface to “Seven Servants”
November 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
"I think it's 'better' to know the truth about one's self and the universe in which I exist. But I do not wish to imply that it is 'nicer' or 'pleasanter.'"
W.R. Bion, preface to “Seven Servants”
W.R. Bion, preface to “Seven Servants”
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Just began working on organizing the blog & converting to shareable PDFs, & it’s going to be a big project! For life reasons, it’s going to be harder for me to keep going now, so any support would be crazy appreciated! & thanks for reading & sharing Substudies!
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November 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Just began working on organizing the blog & converting to shareable PDFs, & it’s going to be a big project! For life reasons, it’s going to be harder for me to keep going now, so any support would be crazy appreciated! & thanks for reading & sharing Substudies!
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
Peter Cornell on Freud as archaeologist, as detective, as novelist, as hydraulic engineer, as flâneur…
November 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Peter Cornell on Freud as archaeologist, as detective, as novelist, as hydraulic engineer, as flâneur…
I need to sit down and read Oliver Davies and Tim Dean’s “Hatred of Sex.” At this moment in my psychoanalytic career I would definitely appreciate a critique of the (neo)liberal sexual politics of American relationalism and queer theory that draws upon both Ranciere and Laplanche!
November 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I need to sit down and read Oliver Davies and Tim Dean’s “Hatred of Sex.” At this moment in my psychoanalytic career I would definitely appreciate a critique of the (neo)liberal sexual politics of American relationalism and queer theory that draws upon both Ranciere and Laplanche!
I stumbled upon these two papers by the psychotherapist SJ Langer this afternoon which build upon Lacan and Winnicott (as well as Merleau-Ponty) to develop a theory of a trans body image in genderqueer subjects. I found them to be very interesting and helpful reads!
November 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I stumbled upon these two papers by the psychotherapist SJ Langer this afternoon which build upon Lacan and Winnicott (as well as Merleau-Ponty) to develop a theory of a trans body image in genderqueer subjects. I found them to be very interesting and helpful reads!
I’m reading these four papers today for a class on relational psychoanalytic approaches to gender and sexuality tomorrow morning. Actually I’ve read each paper before so I’m motivated to do so again as *relational* interventions for a class introducing relational clinical praxis as well as theory.
November 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I’m reading these four papers today for a class on relational psychoanalytic approaches to gender and sexuality tomorrow morning. Actually I’ve read each paper before so I’m motivated to do so again as *relational* interventions for a class introducing relational clinical praxis as well as theory.
In this aside on the concept of the real, Negt and Kluge discuss the difference between Copernican and Ptolemaic subjectivity in a way that I think maps nicely onto Jean Laplanche’s psychoanalytic conception of the same.
November 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
In this aside on the concept of the real, Negt and Kluge discuss the difference between Copernican and Ptolemaic subjectivity in a way that I think maps nicely onto Jean Laplanche’s psychoanalytic conception of the same.
Out of curiosity I decided to see if Negt and Kluge refer to the work of Jean Piaget. He is cited once in “History & Obstinacy,” in an aside within a discussion of social birth and the politics of the body.
November 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Out of curiosity I decided to see if Negt and Kluge refer to the work of Jean Piaget. He is cited once in “History & Obstinacy,” in an aside within a discussion of social birth and the politics of the body.
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good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
All things considered, it feels good to be reading these object relational approaches to immigration while also watching Mira Nair’s adaption of Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Namesake” for a class on the psychoanalysis of race and ethnicity on Friday!
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
All things considered, it feels good to be reading these object relational approaches to immigration while also watching Mira Nair’s adaption of Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Namesake” for a class on the psychoanalysis of race and ethnicity on Friday!
I still have *a lot* of Schattenfroh left to read but I’m going to take a break from it to dive into Cornell’s “The Ways of Paradise.” I couldn’t resist after opening the novel up to a random page in the bookstore and discovering a series of notes on Breton’s automatic poetry.
November 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I still have *a lot* of Schattenfroh left to read but I’m going to take a break from it to dive into Cornell’s “The Ways of Paradise.” I couldn’t resist after opening the novel up to a random page in the bookstore and discovering a series of notes on Breton’s automatic poetry.
Going to start reading Sadie Plant’s history of the Situationist International today. Then I plan to read Dominique Routhier’s more recent history. I’m curious to see how a founding member of the CCRU and a critic of the “cybernetic hypothesis” differently historicize the SI.
November 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Going to start reading Sadie Plant’s history of the Situationist International today. Then I plan to read Dominique Routhier’s more recent history. I’m curious to see how a founding member of the CCRU and a critic of the “cybernetic hypothesis” differently historicize the SI.
During a nocturnal vision, according to Pope Gregory the Great, “the whole world, gathered together, as it were, under one beam of the sun, was presented before the eyes of St. Benedict.” Here’s one medieval and three early-modern depictions of one of my favorite hagiographical episodes!
November 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
During a nocturnal vision, according to Pope Gregory the Great, “the whole world, gathered together, as it were, under one beam of the sun, was presented before the eyes of St. Benedict.” Here’s one medieval and three early-modern depictions of one of my favorite hagiographical episodes!
I sometimes worry that the exvangelical commitment to secular enlightenment can manifest as a kind of Protestantism that is as severe and as punishing as that of the convert Catholic who fails to recognize how their newfound traditionalism is just their old evangelicalism in another guise…
November 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I sometimes worry that the exvangelical commitment to secular enlightenment can manifest as a kind of Protestantism that is as severe and as punishing as that of the convert Catholic who fails to recognize how their newfound traditionalism is just their old evangelicalism in another guise…
November 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I think that at the end of the day, however one feels about “reflexive impotence” in one’s students and in one’s colleagues, a teacher who begins to teach with the conviction that their students are unable to learn, reason, think, or feel a certain way has failed their students and themselves.
November 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I think that at the end of the day, however one feels about “reflexive impotence” in one’s students and in one’s colleagues, a teacher who begins to teach with the conviction that their students are unable to learn, reason, think, or feel a certain way has failed their students and themselves.
I’ve been enjoying this episode and the opportunity it afforded me to return to the work of Mark Fisher. I think one thing I appreciated on this re-read is the *nostalgia* for the disciplinary society evident in Fisher’s critique of the society of control in his writing on education/-
A sneaky weekend drop of the new GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES, in which we spend 3 hours talking about a book that is 80 pages long! It's worth it, though, as few texts have been as impactful on how we talk about our present moment as Mark Fisher's CAPITALIST REALISM:
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November 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I’ve been enjoying this episode and the opportunity it afforded me to return to the work of Mark Fisher. I think one thing I appreciated on this re-read is the *nostalgia* for the disciplinary society evident in Fisher’s critique of the society of control in his writing on education/-
As anticipated, the end of daylight saving time has totally disrupted my sleep schedule so I’ve been watching Peter Watkins La Commune (Paris, 1871) since early in the morning. It’s good stuff and has me thinking about Negt and Kluge’s work on the public sphere and (proletarian) experience.
November 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
As anticipated, the end of daylight saving time has totally disrupted my sleep schedule so I’ve been watching Peter Watkins La Commune (Paris, 1871) since early in the morning. It’s good stuff and has me thinking about Negt and Kluge’s work on the public sphere and (proletarian) experience.