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Mark G. Murphy

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Zizek’s new theology piece coming out soon

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@MaryTracy Extremely sensible centrist voice ‘that’s just the way things are I’m afraid. Yep. It is what it is.'

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Been on this stuff all this morning.

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Jung is doing mysticism. Lacan is properly mystical (as logic). Mysticism is a product of modernity and a reduction of the Real by locating it to cataphatic fixed affective gnosis. The mystical proper is about structures opening out onto that which disrupt those very structures.

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Jordan Peterson saying Lacan is a fraud. Peterson thinks Lacan is doing mysticism and Jung isn't...

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ARE YE FEELING ANXIOUS LADS?

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Mark G. Murphy

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The problem isn't a lack of reading but that modern life demands constant, exhausting reading due to the attention economy. In the humanities, heavy reading should be seen as a way to reclaim our attention and thus a spiritual activity.

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Lacan ‘the unconscious is structured like a language’ Rowan Williams: ‘reality is structured like a language’

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Mark G. Murphy

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@fr00tflie @GravitysRa1nbow He isn’t brilliant. He just tells people what they want to hear in dressed up language and it makes people feel smarter than what they are for their biases and fears.

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Mark G. Murphy

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@k_deamer @eco_communist No

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Mark G. Murphy

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@RudolphAntler @liamcsc @jordanbpeterson Your logic needs work. You only need to have read Marx to teach it well. To teach it badly, you don't need to read much.

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@AlpacaAurelius Spending all day on twitter obsessing over beef and seed oils with Roman bust picture is just as postmodern as the soy denizens you are describing.

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Mark G. Murphy

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Cowardice in academia is funny. Rather than tell people you don’t like their arguments/essays/ whatever, there is just this extremely middle class culture of cliques and ousting via a logic of affirmation. It results in a system where ‘ghosting’ is part of the system.

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What’s stopping you from dressing like young Derrida, lads?

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Mark G. Murphy

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@outlawriot @fuckedupcars ‘Goes hard’ means it thankfully goes far away from me. Broom broom!

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@gracecamille_ I don’t even know what toxic means other than ‘bad’ it is about shibboleth group signalling and rhetorical force as opposed to offering anything conceptually innovative

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@JConeNDaZone @ImamBiden @kokoinkorea I see what you are saying but I think the opposite is true. I think we are absolutely ethically obligated to the other, the tragedy of modern life is the saturation of an ideology of selfishness and myopic solipsistic individualism.

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@fr00tflie @GravitysRa1nbow Me. I’m the source.

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@no_gestures @USA_Comrade @danglinghemmie Category mistake. Being a teacher and being a surgeon are different professions.

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My book on Lacan and mystical theology will be released on October 9th!

The Direction of Desire: John of the Cross, Jacques Lacan and the Contemporary Understanding of...

This book examines Lacanian psychoanalysis and Christian mystical theology demonstrating the former’s potential for reinvigorating spiritual direction. The author outlines how current methods of...

www.amazon.co.uk

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@MinervaRevista_ @unclecaviar @profdavidharvey @jordanbpeterson he understands Marx through vibes and feelings

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Mark G. Murphy

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@rufkutdiamnd @KyivIndependent You know what conscription means?

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Mark G. Murphy

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Our forthcoming volume coming out in December.

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Mark G. Murphy

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Huh! My book was actually released today! I thought it was next month:

The Direction of Desire

books.google.co.uk

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Mark G. Murphy

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@drumm_colin Image of you just walking around the library screaming ‘I hate you’

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Mark G. Murphy

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Looking forward to this

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@totally_canada @MaryTracy Poverty of imagination and lack of curiosity as abject cruelty disguised as ‘common sense’.

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Mark G. Murphy

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@insultsrare Scousers are not English, leave us out.

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Mark G. Murphy

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@kirbsanon Why is it pathetic? Regardless of this guys political leanings, people making the transition to parenthood is jarring. If a friend of yours told you they were not adjusting well to parenthood, would you call them pathetic?

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@jujudatt @shaTIRED What on earth are you talking about? Lol

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Mark G. Murphy

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12th of October is the official date:

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Mark G. Murphy

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1 year

Very pleased to announce this publication edited by Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo and Slavoj Zizek. Wanyoung and I have a chapter in it.

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Mark G. Murphy

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@OrwellNGoode It’s just human desire. Read Lacan and Rene Girard. We desire what we can’t have, and when we get what we want, we don’t want it anymore. Moreover, we want others have.

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It’s here!

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Mark G. Murphy

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Palgrave Lacan series liked my initial book proposal and have asked me to send them a chapter for review. Please keep me in your prayers.

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‘Yes, of course I read self-help spirituality books. Here you should read this.’

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Mark G. Murphy

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Lacan’s first writings are to be published in Jan 23.

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Mark G. Murphy

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@andymuellerjr @gaslightyourmom @sverresj Nah. Homeschooling is an important option. I was being bullied mercilessly in school because I had epilepsy. Being homeschooled literally saved my life. (I am leftwing, progressive and reject anything remotely like culture war binary silliness).

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Lacanian analysis is not psychology with Lacanian Jargon pasted on top: Psycho-analysis, then, reminds us that the facts of human psychology cannot be conceived in the absence of the function of the subject defined as the effect of the signifier” (Seminar XI)

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Mark G. Murphy

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@christapeterso ‘Morality drama’ what does that mean exactly? How do you address the ethics of something without it being a morality drama?

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No no no no no no no no no NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

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Anglo analytic philosophers will be like ‘I’m going to write a whole work on metaphor and art’ And not mention Lacan, Ricoeur or Kristeva’. The real power of Anglo analytic philosophy comes from the systems and walls it puts up to stop conversation.

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Me in analysis with my symptom

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Mark G. Murphy

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@delicaterainbo @ApexKitten @LEBassett @yashar It’s actually- if you want to be technically correct (the best kind of correct)- a very fine gruel.

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Love Gustave Moreau

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Jordan Peterson has just discovered liberation theology and is having an imaginary argument with the pope over it.

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Mark G. Murphy

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I GOT CONTRACT OFFER FROM PALGRAVE LACAN SERIES. 😭

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"psychoanalysis is, in essence, a cure through love" (Freud to Jung 1906)

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If it wasn’t for Jesuit theology and Lacanian psychoanalysis Argentina wouldn’t have won. I am not going to explain this.

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Lacan stated that to the extent we speak and presuppose the Other as the Symbolic order, we exhibit a belief that is structurally indistinguishable from belief in God. 1/

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@roselyddon He would have a perfect voice for Gregorian chant.

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Mark G. Murphy

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This looks like a dream image I would take to an analyst in great anxiety

shan on the run

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New york city is not a real place

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Mark G. Murphy

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@encraed @RaincoatPixel @ContraPoints Even more puritan than puritans

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Mark G. Murphy

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@ContraPoints Very good piece. Did you see Richard Seymour’s piece on self help industry? That was good too. Part and parcel of this ongoing therapeutisation of language that seems to simplify and pathologise complex human emotions.

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In a world where everything is therapy, therapy-oriented or psychologised, psychoanalysis offers a space where you can suffer freely.

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Me and the lads on our way to correct some wayward metaphysics.

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@sleepydisease I’m happy I don’t understand this.

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@joel_irby_atx @AssalRad @Tweetlahuac ‘The papers manipulate headlines for our own good’

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@WorldWarWang Sounds like that weirdo online red pill nerd stuff.

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Jordan Peterson is just mad the pope likely saw a lacanian analyst.

Pope Francis admits he saw psychoanalyst 'to clarify a few things'

‘She helped me a lot,’ Francis says of Jewish therapist

www.independent.co.uk

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People hating on Derrida are rubbish. He was fantastic.

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Mark G. Murphy

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@delmonaco_joe @christapeterso Throwing a tantrum over spelling and grammar misses the central issue. Analytic philosophy absolutely seeks to validate itself by closely aligning with science, yet its approach to language is far from scientific. She’s right.

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@Maliceunchained @DrtySexyHistory @jonathan_t19 Usually misattributed or simplified from the actual line written by William Congreve in his play “The Mourning Bride” (1697), which is: “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”

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Mark G. Murphy

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@Cominsitu Object oriented eschatology

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Mark G. Murphy

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@inherent_itgirl just another case of the hipster inclination to be grossed out by earnest enjoyment of products that were once niche but became popular. Maybe that’s what redditization is.

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Mark G. Murphy

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@lostsupper There is a connection

Are fish sauces in Southeast Asia a relic of Roman Empire?

Nuoc mam in Vietnam, nam pla in Thailand, patis in Philippines – Southeast Asian fish sauces bear a startling similarity to garum, prized by ancient Romans. Could their fish sauce have travelled...

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Mark G. Murphy

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In reference to synodality and the importance of listening

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@no_gestures @USA_Comrade @danglinghemmie A bad one?

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Mark G. Murphy

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This is Mari Ruti’s last essay that was published in Sublation. It just came out:

Sublation Magazine

Media Publishing

sublationmedia.com

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Jean Baruzi (Lacan’s teacher), wrote a magnum opus on John of the Cross and mystical experience.

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Mark G. Murphy

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Balthasar suggests that Christ’s experience of Hell is eternal and timeless. This means that, from Christ’s perspective, His redemptive suffering in Hell is not confined to a specific moment in time but continues indefinitely.1/

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Currently writing something on the analogia entis and the not-all

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@forcedmasc @jamie_chaosmos Therapy has become a kind of moral imperative now. People use the therapeutic in place of the moral. Hence utilising the term narcissist when they just mean ‘bad people’.

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@UTD_Darri @tristehomo A lot of crushes don’t actually have a relation to the other, but merely to an idea of the other. When you do something that shatters the fantasy in the other, all feelings dissipate. It’s what Lacan called the non rapport.

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Mark G. Murphy

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New book coedited with Duane Rousselle with chapters from myself and Wanyoung Kim and many others!

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Mark G. Murphy

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@JockGlasgow @ReubenTheRed Take the L

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Mark G. Murphy

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Freudian analysis teaches we are responsible for our desires - insofar that they are our *repressed* desires - while also saying the ego is not master of our house. ‘Responsibility’ not anything like a moralist injunction to repress your feelings more!

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@Femi_Sorry @glasco61 Really strange watching those who were worrying about the apocalyptic impact of climate change shrug off the consequences of a nuclear exchange with Russia.

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Chapter received from Todd McGowan for our forthcoming edited volume on Psychoanalysis and Negativity and Positivity. Edited with @RousselleDuane

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Desire relates to repetition, convergence and avoidance (the necessary and impossible), but jouissance relates to contingency. It is of a different order

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We are pattern seeking creatures And we will reach for security, predictability and certainty before we reach for anything remotely resembling life. Psychoanalysis shows us that when it comes to not living, we are masters at convincing ourselves with bullshit.

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you can see my book cover now:

The Direction of Desire: John of the Cross, Jacques Lacan and the Contemporary Understanding of...

This book examines Lacanian psychoanalysis and Christian mystical theology demonstrating the former’s potential for reinvigorating spiritual direction. The author outlines how current methods of...

www.amazon.co.uk

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One of the most mad things about Liverpool is that we have a bust of Carl Jung’s head on a street corner because he said he had a prophetic dream about Liverpool being ‘the seat of life.’

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Dune represents the absolute horror of spirituality-as-substance—as commodity. The object that is necessary for the functioning of trade is also the experiential object for enlightenment.

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@ProtonInspector This is what happens when you let people with upward inflections use TikTok too much. They start trying to channel ancient dead romans.

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@WorldnewsNws @Guggenheim I see the no fly zone understanders have logged on.

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@AlexShaneMoore No we shouldn’t.

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@HarryJamesBooks @Mikepetr3 @KyivPost Have you had a word with all the lads. And they say it’s world war 3?

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My office is a pit

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We often hear that our ‘authentic self’ exists beyond the peculiar quirks, errors, and embarrassing peripheral actions. Psychoanalysis, on the other hand, challenges this idea. It directs our attention to those unsettling moments and asserts, "thou art there; assume your desire.’

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@javisfunny To me? I am an avowed Catholic who uses Lacan as a tool to guide questions. I am a firm believer in metaphysics and the centrality of the death and resurrection of Christ.

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