[Note: This essay was originally published in The Young Freudians in 2018 and these days it can only be accessed as a YouTube audiobook here: https://youtu.be/DXlPsSeXtro This version is editted to include citations and further clarification in some ambiguous sentences.] Abstract The following short paper is a more focused recapitulation of…

[This short piece is part of my work during Jamieson Webster’s 2022 seminar on “Psychoanalysis and the Body.”] As I discussed on my first short response, I am fascinating by Jamieson Webster’s discussion of conversion as it coincides with the Lacanian practice of the Pass. This follow up stems from…

On the Lacanian Pass — [This short piece is part of my work during Jamieson Webster’s 2022 seminar on “Psychoanalysis and the Body.”] Jamieson Webster’s discussion about conversion and the body in her book Conversion Disorder is fascinating for any clinical analyst and psychoanalytic theoretician who is interested on the notion of the Pass. …

[Note: This editted essay was written originally for Pyriscence, but it was never published there. Still, support Pyrisence. They rule.] Since its conceptual inception, the notion of “ideology” has gone through several changes and revisions. And it is the intention of this piece to address three major transformations of this…

Philosophy and Non-Philosophy in Deleuze and Guattari — [This is the last piece of this 4-part series on Gilles Deleuze which were originally written for Keith Faulkner’s 2022 seminar on Deleuze] In What is Philosophy?, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari dedicate one of the final chapters to art as one of the non-philosophies that philosophy finds itself related…

Deleuze’s Critique of Ideal Perfection and Institutional Obligation — [This is the third piece of this 4-part series on Gilles Deleuze which were originally written for Keith Faulkner’s 2022 seminar on Deleuze] In her book The Sources of Normativity, Christine M. Korsgaard introduces the subject of ethics as a contention with the sources and grounds for the norms that…

Resistances to Institutional Capture — [This is the second piece of this 4-part series on Gilles Deleuze which were originally written for Keith Faulkner’s 2022 seminar on Deleuze] In What is Philosophy? by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, the recurrent theme that philosophy is the creation of concepts is extensively explored (Deleuze and Guattari, 1994…

Pure Becoming, Simulacra, and Events — [This is the first piece of this 4-part series on Gilles Deleuze which were originally written for Keith Faulkner’s 2022 seminar on Deleuze] In the first two chapters of Logic of Sense, Deleuze enters into conversation with Plato as an initial expression of the series of paradoxes that concern the…

[NOTE: This piece is a presentation that I gave to the cohort for Creston Davis’s 2022 seminar on Epistemology where Badiou offers a distinct outlook on the topic of truth.] 1) What is Philosophy? Alain Badiou (1937-present) is without a doubt a philosopher par excellence. This is meant in the sense that Badiou stresses…