lily scherlis
@lilyscherlis.bsky.social
writing in Parapraxis, The Drift, The Baffler, The Guardian
phd candidate at uchicago english + taps
phd candidate at uchicago english + taps
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Been obsessively thinking about parallels between "personal boundaries" & national borders. Did some googling this morning & found this amazing essay by @lilyscherlis.bsky.social historicizing pop psych "boundaries" talk in Cold War (60s) & neoliberal (early 90s) moments. Highly recommend.
Boundary Issues — Parapraxis
How boundaries became the rules for mental health—and explain everything Lily Scherlis
www.parapraxismagazine.com
January 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Been obsessively thinking about parallels between "personal boundaries" & national borders. Did some googling this morning & found this amazing essay by @lilyscherlis.bsky.social historicizing pop psych "boundaries" talk in Cold War (60s) & neoliberal (early 90s) moments. Highly recommend.
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MLA dance card makers! The Forum on Literary Criticism has 3 sessions: Genres of Criticism (15); Psychoanalytic Criticism Today (316); Portable Concepts for Non-Eurocentric Theory (719). I'll be speaking at Psychic Life Under Polycrisis (34), + hosting Comparative Theory social hour Fri at 6:30.
January 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
MLA dance card makers! The Forum on Literary Criticism has 3 sessions: Genres of Criticism (15); Psychoanalytic Criticism Today (316); Portable Concepts for Non-Eurocentric Theory (719). I'll be speaking at Psychic Life Under Polycrisis (34), + hosting Comparative Theory social hour Fri at 6:30.
literally every pop psychology topic I research winds up tracing back to 1969–73
January 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
literally every pop psychology topic I research winds up tracing back to 1969–73
in the wellness dystopia of the future they will call church services weekly appointments with the Master Psychiatrist
January 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
in the wellness dystopia of the future they will call church services weekly appointments with the Master Psychiatrist
December 20, 2024 at 8:09 PM
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@lilyscherlis.bsky.social on the politics of Dialectical Behavior Therapy
www.thedriftmag.com/skill-issues/
www.thedriftmag.com/skill-issues/
Skill Issues
Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Its Discontents
www.thedriftmag.com
December 20, 2024 at 4:46 PM
@lilyscherlis.bsky.social on the politics of Dialectical Behavior Therapy
www.thedriftmag.com/skill-issues/
www.thedriftmag.com/skill-issues/
just found the prequel to Mating in Captivity, which features the word "Palestine" exactly four times
December 19, 2024 at 3:26 PM
just found the prequel to Mating in Captivity, which features the word "Palestine" exactly four times
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glaring omission indeed
Yesterday the MLA exec council issued a report on its decision to foreclose a vote on resolution 2025-1. It omitted mention of the fact that @eallen.bsky.social & I resigned from the EC in dissent from the decision & in solidarity w/ members demanding more of the org. We'd served just shy of 4 yrs.
Last week, I resigned from the MLA Executive Council in solidarity with members working to mobilize the org to take a stand against the scholasticide and genocide in Palestine.
Please read and share their powerful call to MLA leadership today in LitHub. lithub.com/the-modern-l...
Please read and share their powerful call to MLA leadership today in LitHub. lithub.com/the-modern-l...
December 17, 2024 at 1:58 PM
glaring omission indeed
a literary man at this cafe is reading a very long passage from Taming of the Shrew aloud to his gf and i’m thinking of asking him to disappear
December 10, 2024 at 7:22 PM
a literary man at this cafe is reading a very long passage from Taming of the Shrew aloud to his gf and i’m thinking of asking him to disappear
if they did have mensa for EQ no one in this kitchen would qualify
November 28, 2024 at 9:08 PM
if they did have mensa for EQ no one in this kitchen would qualify
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BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row.
“Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.
“Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.
November 28, 2024 at 3:07 PM
BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row.
“Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.
“Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.
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11 months later, I’ve still yet to say anything nice about Germany especially after withdrawing a museum exhibition I curated about genocide denialism because the directors of the museum and museum system told me I couldn’t say Germany hadn’t properly recognized the genocide in Namibia.
Feeling exceedingly at home in Berlin’s sea of giant black puffer coats, and that’s the only nice thing I’ll say about Germany for the foreseeable future.
November 22, 2024 at 1:57 PM
11 months later, I’ve still yet to say anything nice about Germany especially after withdrawing a museum exhibition I curated about genocide denialism because the directors of the museum and museum system told me I couldn’t say Germany hadn’t properly recognized the genocide in Namibia.
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Love “booster shot for the revolutionary imagination” as a description of our book.
Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072 by @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social & M.E. O'Brien offers a pretty dramatic booster shot for the revolutionary imagination. It's definitely rippling through some of my movement circles. www.commonnotions.org/everything-f...
Everything For Everyone — Common Notions Press
www.commonnotions.org
November 18, 2024 at 9:00 PM
Love “booster shot for the revolutionary imagination” as a description of our book.
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November 18, 2024 at 11:50 AM
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the most academic thing about me is whenever someone says “good question” I feel like a dog being given a treat
November 16, 2024 at 4:24 PM
the most academic thing about me is whenever someone says “good question” I feel like a dog being given a treat
I too exist elsewhere
November 22, 2024 at 8:53 AM
I too exist elsewhere
i'm "writing dialectically," aka starting every other paragraph with the word "unfortunately"
November 14, 2024 at 11:05 PM
i'm "writing dialectically," aka starting every other paragraph with the word "unfortunately"
I vote in PA and I voted for Harris. It was utterly maddening to fill in that bubble and I’ll be there for the struggle to come, whichever way this goes
November 22, 2024 at 8:53 AM
I vote in PA and I voted for Harris. It was utterly maddening to fill in that bubble and I’ll be there for the struggle to come, whichever way this goes
tried to print an article on Bion's concept of emotional containment and my printer leaked a shit ton of toner all over the floor and I have never related to a machine more
November 22, 2024 at 8:53 AM
tried to print an article on Bion's concept of emotional containment and my printer leaked a shit ton of toner all over the floor and I have never related to a machine more
feels like all of us are rapid-cycling between finding words to describe our horror and finding words to describe the total failure of words to describe our horror
November 22, 2024 at 8:53 AM
feels like all of us are rapid-cycling between finding words to describe our horror and finding words to describe the total failure of words to describe our horror
Jameson on finding his way into Marxism. He also happens to be describing exactly what his work has often done for me
November 22, 2024 at 8:53 AM
Jameson on finding his way into Marxism. He also happens to be describing exactly what his work has often done for me
ok which one of you did this
November 22, 2024 at 8:58 AM
ok which one of you did this
if someone asks if you’ve read something you haven’t, you
November 22, 2024 at 8:58 AM
if someone asks if you’ve read something you haven’t, you
everyone who says sartre's critique of dialectical reason is sooooo dry stopped reading before they got to the horny parts
November 22, 2024 at 8:58 AM
everyone who says sartre's critique of dialectical reason is sooooo dry stopped reading before they got to the horny parts