Blogs about: Repetition Compulsion

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Down the (rabbit) hole

hitchhiker72 wrote 3 weeks ago: I came across this poem in Sogyal Rinpoche’s The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (1992) (Wi … more →

Tags: death, Poetry, book

Masochism: A bridge to the other side of abuse - Elizabeth Howell

ollielyttelton wrote 2 months ago: Full Article Every once in a while I come across a research article that opens my mind. I have come … more →

Tags: Reviews, Self Growth Books, Dissociation, Psychology

catastrophe, in syndication2 comments

adswithoutproducts wrote 2 months ago: Funny thing. Not so long ago, it looked like the future when this sort of stuff was shown on TV. No … more →

Tags: catastrophe, Dystopia

The Repetition Compulsion - revisited

ollielyttelton wrote 2 months ago: I have come across several different possible explanations for the repetition compulsion in the lite … more →

Tags: Reflections

Repetition Compulsion - "You can't hold back the past..."

ollielyttelton wrote 2 months ago: Repetition compulsion is the term used by Freud to describe the mind’s tendency to repeat trau … more →

Tags: Reflections

politics as usual6 comments

Li'l Pony wrote 2 months ago: Sometimes I get to wondering about the issue of politics. And not identity politics, but real politi … more →

Tags: Anthropology, espionage, everything under the sun is about marimar, short term gain, s.Pare me

verba volant2 comments

jonie v. wrote 3 months ago: when i was little i used the dictionary all the time. it was very frustrating because the definition … more →

Tags: Anthropology, etymology, i'm coming down with something, Learning Disabilities, loop de loop, prognosis, third millenium c.e.

other children's skin1 comment

adswithoutproducts wrote 6 months ago: From a nice piece in the NYT today about thrift stores in Poland: Thrift stores here have become im … more →

Tags: answers without questions, selfcriticism, misery memoir mine

gay man's guide to election 2008

Li'l Pony wrote 8 months ago: … more →

Tags: Anthropology, sheer joy, The Gays

Repeating Life's Patterns--Part II7 comments

thecountryshrink wrote 8 months ago: Some concepts in psychology are very difficult to explain. Part of the reason is that some concepts … more →

Tags: Psychology, Psychotherapy, learning from mistakes, Life Traps, Pattern Analysis, Patterns, shrink

Repeating Life's Patterns-Part I1 comment

thecountryshrink wrote 9 months ago: I remember one fellow I saw. He was a bartender. Over the years, he joked to all of his friends, … more →

Tags: Psychology, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, Psychodynamic, Unconscious, unconscious mind

bounce1 comment

adswithoutproducts wrote 9 months ago: The incessant, miraculous deferral of the catastrophic rupture, the long-awaited break. Always a bo … more →

Tags: collapse, Markets

Whenever I'm in Madras (trigger warning for jonie v.)

Li'l Pony wrote 10 months ago: Whenever I am in Madras, one of my favorite things to do is to pay a visit to the most amazing eleph … more →

Tags: Anthropology, Art, Rules, The Gays

la cage aux folles4 comments

Li'l Pony wrote 10 months ago: Every time I go to NYC, sooner or later I find myself in Columbus Park. I think that’s the name of … more →

Tags: if i don't tell this story who will, sheer joy

my bank branches: a brief memoir13 comments

adswithoutproducts wrote 11 months ago: My parents, to this day, still don’t believe that they can use their ATM cards at banks not t … more →

Tags: Crisis, Economics, multinational capitalist chic

the tailor of ulm

adswithoutproducts wrote 11 months ago: Lucio Magri in the current New Left Review: At one of the crowded meetings held in 1991 to decide w … more →

Tags: Socialism, Genre

i can finally rest easy1 comment

Li'l Pony wrote 1 year ago: I was all ready to write to South Beach Bum and ask if I could come to his building to visit Mr. McG … more →

Tags: prognosis, espionage, Rules, sheer joy, Mr. McGillicuddy

dic & spam1 comment

jonie v. wrote 1 year ago: “my wife adores my big dick, and yours?” is in great need of disambiguation. are you won … more →

Tags: loop de loop, espionage, persecution anxiety, my dirty little nature, i'm coming down with something, s.Pare me, Rules, Lists, Anthropology

uniformly gay bands14 comments

jonie v. wrote 1 year ago: some people i won’t name names like hyperfemininity coupled with hypermasculinity. the concept … more →

Tags: loop de loop, i'm coming down with something, Lists, sheer joy, third millenium c.e., Art


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