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
I learned today that the Surrealist artist Meret Oppenheim was very influenced by the friendship between Bettina Brentano and Karoline von Günderrode!
November 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I learned today that the Surrealist artist Meret Oppenheim was very influenced by the friendship between Bettina Brentano and Karoline von Günderrode!
Didier Anzieu and Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel respond with alarm to the Anti-Oedipus, and describe how what was repressed by Freud himself tends to give rise to “ideologies” and a fascination with the “illusions” against which psychoanalysis struggles.
November 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Didier Anzieu and Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel respond with alarm to the Anti-Oedipus, and describe how what was repressed by Freud himself tends to give rise to “ideologies” and a fascination with the “illusions” against which psychoanalysis struggles.
Didier Anzieu reminiscing about his analysis with Lacan (as cited in Oliner’s “Cultivating Freud’s Garden in France”).
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Didier Anzieu reminiscing about his analysis with Lacan (as cited in Oliner’s “Cultivating Freud’s Garden in France”).
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”
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!
Here’s how Langer maps these concepts on to the work of Lacan and Winnicott.
November 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Here’s how Langer maps these concepts on to the work of Lacan and Winnicott.
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.
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 find myself in complete agreement with the people who wrote these letters praising Watkins’ film—especially the actress from Berlin!
November 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I find myself in complete agreement with the people who wrote these letters praising Watkins’ film—especially the actress from Berlin!
November 2, 2025 at 6:20 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.
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.
Reading Gherasim Luca’s “The Inventor of Love” this afternoon and I can definitely see why Deleuze was so fascinated by his poetry!
November 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Reading Gherasim Luca’s “The Inventor of Love” this afternoon and I can definitely see why Deleuze was so fascinated by his poetry!
A thoughtful critique of neuropsychoanalysis that describes how Solms attempts to map and adjust Freud to the affective neuroscientific model of the mind that he finds scientifically compelling, and why this hermeneutic strategy fails to demonstrate that psychoanalysis actually “needs” that model.
November 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
A thoughtful critique of neuropsychoanalysis that describes how Solms attempts to map and adjust Freud to the affective neuroscientific model of the mind that he finds scientifically compelling, and why this hermeneutic strategy fails to demonstrate that psychoanalysis actually “needs” that model.