Correction: four groups a day.

See Beckett:

"The next pain in the balls was anthropology and the other disciplines, such as psychiatry, that are connected with it, disconnected, then connected again, according to the latest discoveries. What I liked in anthropology was its inexhaustible faculty of negation, its relentless definition of man, as though ( Read more... )

Co-leading two groups a day with no supervision or instruction whatsoever. Both groups comprised almost exclusively of "chronic," low-functioning patients. Of course, I'm not getting payed, but what do I care. I have the best job ever.

Actively reading: Foucault (Madness and Civilization) and Palmer (Hermeneutics).
Passively reading: Georges Simenon ( Read more... )

Without a doubt, the best thing about being home is my parents' Wagner collection. It is the thought of those CDs, of all things, that most reliably gets me out of bed.

Fortunately, on Monday I start work at the psychiatric clinic.

My dream last night involved a vagina dentada. I also might have been Keith Richards.

Reading Melville's Pierre and Heidegger's Being and Time alongside scattered Husserl, Foucault's The Order of Things and Beckett's three novels.

"... Mr. Melville has done a very serious thing, a thing which not even unsoundness of intellect could excuse. He might have been mad to the very pinnacle of insanity; he might have torn our poor language into tatters, and made from the shreds a harlequin suit in which to play his tricks; he might have piled up word upon word, and adjective upon ( Read more... )

"The following is less an attempt at an indictment of Browning's methodology (as "inaccurate") than it is an expression of rage at the metaphysical assumptions operative in his work; at best, this essay is also a preliminary gesture toward a Nietzschean "genealogy" of Holocaust historiography."

My attitude towards Joyce's Ulysses wavers between excitement about the novelty of the textual game it weaves and outrage at the gross irresponsibility -- from a critical standpoint -- of said game. For certain is that I will never become a Joyce scholar.
I remain in mourning for Melville.

"God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart forever; that vulture the very creature he creates."

--Melville's Ishmael on Ahab, Moby Dick

"I write differently from the way I speak, speak differently from the way I think, think differently  from the way I ought to think, and so on down into deepest darkness."

--Kafka, in a Letter to Felice

OED: Signifying, ppl. a.
b. U.S. slang (chiefly Blacks'). That boasts, insults, or makes insinuations.
1974 H. L. FOSTER Ribbin', Jivin', & Playin' Dozens v. 207
"Deep down in the jungle where the coconuts grow/Lived the signifyingest motherfucker that the world ever know."