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[autopoetic]

It was a good solid 12 hour day today. 8 hours of making pictures frames, 4 hours of marking  essays. A good balance, I think, and just enough work to exhaust but not exasperate. We should all be so lucky as to use what we have

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[lesenjournal]

This is a strange question, and if you don't mind me asking, where do you teach? I understand if you want that information to remain undisclosed.

[autopoetic]

Isn't it obvious? You have more than enough clues.

I'd appreciate it if you didn't broadcast the connection though. I prefer to keep my el-jay persona and my meatspace persona separate.

[lesenjournal]

At least now it's ethically permissable. In retrospect, kind of funny - for me anyway. Just an awkward situation for you.

[autopoetic]

Not yet! The exams are not yet marked. But they have to be done by monday morning...

But really, I don't think its an issue. If I had given away exam questions or something, then maybe problems. But afaik, UofT doesn't have a livejournal policy.

[anosognosia]

I've noticed that too, even within the tradition of psychoanalytic commentary. For some it's the sex, for others the aggression; for some Freud is abstract, netaphysical, and speculative, for others he is reductive and unable to part from biology. It's funny.

I have, well... for the death drive, that's probably one topic where I part fairly substantially from orthodox Freudianism. But for libido, remember -- this is very clear in the Three Essays -- that sexuality in the colloquial sense is genital sexuality, which is expressly not a fundamental instinct, but rather a fairly complicated and constructed product. It seems that the typical confusion mixes up Freud and Darwin on this point, and takes Freud to be grounding psychology on the drive to reproduce, which he clearly doesn't do.

[autopoetic]

This brings up my absolute favorite Freudian term: polymorphous perversion! It rolls beautifully off the tongue (and any other body part that you might be interested in).

Some journalists have suggested that we may temporarily regress to this stage during adolescence: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/54876