The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialect...

The second episode in our new podcast on SXXIII expands on the first. Hence the rather awkward title of this one: “Bags of Skin.” See below for some of the diagram work we did along the way; and head to our YouTube channel if you want to watch it unfold one pen stroke at a time.I ...  Show more

Welcome to our new podcast series on The Sinthome (Seminar XXIII). This opening episode is called “Captivated Bodies.” You can also watch this episode at our YouTube channel. And if this episode piques your interest, stay tuned for more news later this week, when registration ope ...  Show more

In this lecture, the seventh in the Clinical Series, Dr Carveth discusses Freud, Fairbairn, and Berliner on masochism, focusing on Berliner's paper, 'The Role of Object Relations in Moral Masochism.' 

This episode is the third in a seven part series devoted to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Ryan and Todd discuss the second major section, Self-Consciousness, with a special focus on the master/slave dialectic. They also explore the transition from Consciousness and then the tr ...  Show more

Desire is intrinsic to all living forms – the urge to exist and flourish. It turns to suffering when, due to unmet needs, it contracts, intensifies and separates us from our full aliveness and awareness. These two talks guide us in awakening from this trance, and discovering how ...  Show more

This week, I’m diving into the basic premise of desire and why changing how we think about it can be so transformational. We tend to want to push this feeling away when we can’t have something, or rush to acquire the object of our desires if we can have it, but I want to suggest ...  Show more