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Presence: P.O.V's traumatic mirror
Notes on P.O.V., the filmic gaze, & fantasies of the nuclear family. All of society is the young woman’s voyeur.
Jul 29, 2025
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Women's Erotic Masochism in Film
Some reflections on Belle de Jour & Babygirl.
May 10, 2025
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Adolescence: boys' rage & need
How the cheese and pickle sandwich conveys Jamie's interior world + reflections on the manosphere + why teens do crime + psychoanalytic read of Ep. 3
Apr 21, 2025
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Anora: Sex and Capitalist Fantasies
If you’re rich enough, getting married is as trivial as a one night stand.
Mar 25, 2025
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Pretty Girl Androids & Companion
Pink wave cinema, pretty girl androids in Companion + Ex Machina + Subservience, and what do masculine fantasies have to do with women?
Feb 25, 2025
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Babygirl: Beyond Villain or Victim of Desire
Dark desire, angels don't fuck, Eros with a machine gun, and why repression doesn't work.
Feb 1, 2025
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Challengers: A Parable of Desire
A Lacanian reading of Challengers, structures of desire, & why we desire what we can't have
Jan 12, 2025
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Shut Up and Repair: How psychoanalysts’ calls to repair defuse political change
A hesitant call out of Orna Guralnik, Avgi Saketopoulou's Anti-Reparative Turn, and notes on a Palestinian protester at a Guralnik talk
Dec 12, 2024
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The Substance: desire for beauty & death
A Lacanian reading of The Substance with lots of spoilers
Nov 30, 2024
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