Too much pleasure can actually kill desire.

No problem! Thanks to you for making it. (And for making the mixtapes, the posts, the photos.)

To put it another way: recent is the very present experience of satisfaction that comes from the drive.

So, the drive takes the energy (libido), and rather than that energy getting discharged (like a stroke of lightning) the desire/lack (object a) transforms it into something that is recirculated (a circuit, orbit).

Jouissance is how the drive circulating is experienced by the body, how it feels.

Jouissance is the experience or effect that this mechanism produces, which is felt in the body.

The drive is a phenomenon of libido discharge when it gets caught I’m within the gravitational pull of loss and lack (object a).

I thought of the drive as a process — a circuit and as an orbit— of repetitive movement around that which is desired but can’t ever be got.

A very important passage that illustrates how Lacan’s thinking in truth changed over the course of his teaching.

It’s also great writing! Here is an example of the style of the prose describing the feeling Tara has when she can’t figure out why she going through the endless November 18th:

There are other interesting kinds of non-standard-time-loop things and stuff that you discover as you read.

If you like time travel stories / thought experiments, give this a try!

Here is the gist: the protagonist Tara Selter is stuck repeating November 18th again and again.

But, she starts the next November 18th where she went to sleep on the last one. So it’s a little different from other time-loop stories where the person always starts in the same place.

Are you using the music as inspiration for any projects?

Are there seriously references to Lacan & Derrida in video game cut scenes?!

I think that Lacanians are interested in finding ways to be receptive to the psychotic certainty and not say "yes!" or "no!" to it.

Rather to say, "Perhaps..."

The harmful effect is that the challenge might weaken or remove the certainty and stabilization it provides. When this happens, what takes the place of the certainty is often a kind of nihilistic desperation that can lead to a dangerous passage to the act.

The paradoxical effects are that the subjects' investment in the (sometimes delusional) certainty increases rather than decreases.

The treatment: It is important to recognize that the psychotic certainty is something that is a solution for the psychotic subject, and that trying to challenge it often has paradoxical and harmful effects.