Notebooks

The function of the orgasm, for Reich, isn't a matter of a distant threat to sexuality: man is already sick, in his entire body. This piece explores what this semantic nuance — lost in the French translation — reveals about Reich's sexual economy, between Oedipus, neurosis, and his sweeping ambition to cure even fascism itself.

Compression, not understanding: this is the shift Lacan proposes in his 1967 address to psychiatrists. This piece explores how psychiatry, in seeking to "place the madman at the center," flattens rather than listens to him — and why the existence of the psychiatrist never implies the existence of the madman.