Dea T.

This is why art matters: because it dredges our psychic depths in ways that even the artist may not understand. “The arts,” writes the Zen poet Gary Snyder, following Levi-Strauss, “are the wilderness areas of the imagination, surviving like national parks in the midst of civilized minds.” Strange things grow in the wilderness; unusual plants... See more

• What’s one word on your mind right now?

• What’s an idea that jumped out at you from what you just heard?

• What did this remind you of?

• Share one way you might make this better. 

• On a scale of 1 to 5, how confident/excited/clear are you on what you just heard?

• Raise your hand if you felt ____ about this. Raise your hand if you felt _____ about this. (Bonus

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? For Lacan, "I is an other" (2005:96) constituted in the symbolic,yet never fitting fully within it. We achieve our subjecthood only by taking in the Name of the Father which is also the No of the Father: theprice of becoming a subject is being fundamentally barred from a kernelwithin—and the result of this barring is a lack at the center of the... See more

other. In Lacanian terms,our claimed solidarity with the other masks our desire. This opens a psychoanalytic reading of anthropology to listen for an ambivalence often absent in our ethics—what might we repress in an emphasis on empa