Been obsessively thinking about parallels between "personal boundaries" & national borders. Did some googling this morning & found this amazing essay by @lilyscherlis.bsky.social historicizing pop psych "boundaries" talk in Cold War (60s) & neoliberal (early 90s) moments. Highly recommend.

Boundary Issues — Parapraxis

How boundaries became the rules for mental health—and explain everything Lily Scherlis

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MLA dance card makers! The Forum on Literary Criticism has 3 sessions: Genres of Criticism (15); Psychoanalytic Criticism Today (316); Portable Concepts for Non-Eurocentric Theory (719). I'll be speaking at Psychic Life Under Polycrisis (34), + hosting Comparative Theory social hour Fri at 6:30.

literally every pop psychology topic I research winds up tracing back to 1969–73

in the wellness dystopia of the future they will call church services weekly appointments with the Master Psychiatrist

a total honor to make the list. thanks for reading! thedriftmag.com/skill-issues

Skill Issues

Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Its Discontents

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The Drift@thedriftmag.com · 2y ago

To close out the year, revisit ten of our most-read pieces from 2024:

@lilyscherlis.bsky.social on the politics of Dialectical Behavior Therapy www.thedriftmag.com/skill-issues/

Skill Issues

Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Its Discontents

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just found the prequel to Mating in Captivity, which features the word "Palestine" exactly four times

glaring omission indeed

Rebecca Colesworthy@rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 2y ago

Yesterday the MLA exec council issued a report on its decision to foreclose a vote on resolution 2025-1. It omitted mention of the fact that @eallen.bsky.social & I resigned from the EC in dissent from the decision & in solidarity w/ members demanding more of the org. We'd served just shy of 4 yrs.

a literary man at this cafe is reading a very long passage from Taming of the Shrew aloud to his gf and i’m thinking of asking him to disappear

if they did have mensa for EQ no one in this kitchen would qualify

BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row. “Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.

11 months later, I’ve still yet to say anything nice about Germany especially after withdrawing a museum exhibition I curated about genocide denialism because the directors of the museum and museum system told me I couldn’t say Germany hadn’t properly recognized the genocide in Namibia.

Z Samudzi@zsamudzi.bsky.social · 3y ago

Feeling exceedingly at home in Berlin’s sea of giant black puffer coats, and that’s the only nice thing I’ll say about Germany for the foreseeable future.

Love “booster shot for the revolutionary imagination” as a description of our book.

Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑@giantwhispers.bsky.social · 2y ago

Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072 by @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social & M.E. O'Brien offers a pretty dramatic booster shot for the revolutionary imagination. It's definitely rippling through some of my movement circles. www.commonnotions.org/everything-f...

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the most academic thing about me is whenever someone says “good question” I feel like a dog being given a treat

I too exist elsewhere

i'm "writing dialectically," aka starting every other paragraph with the word "unfortunately"

I vote in PA and I voted for Harris. It was utterly maddening to fill in that bubble and I’ll be there for the struggle to come, whichever way this goes

tried to print an article on Bion's concept of emotional containment and my printer leaked a shit ton of toner all over the floor and I have never related to a machine more

feels like all of us are rapid-cycling between finding words to describe our horror and finding words to describe the total failure of words to describe our horror

Jameson on finding his way into Marxism. He also happens to be describing exactly what his work has often done for me

ok which one of you did this

if someone asks if you’ve read something you haven’t, you

everyone who says sartre's critique of dialectical reason is sooooo dry stopped reading before they got to the horny parts

pretty soon service work for humanities scholars is just going to be babysitting people like this guy

ok guys shitposting is over it's time to Express Political Outrage Skillfully https://www.thedriftmag.com/skill-issues/

ok which NYT journalist learned the word “flotilla” reading about the freedom flotilla and decided to get colorful with the metaphors

Berlant on why I’m such a ridiculously slow reader

excited for the future when university administrations pay a tech company to quantify every book’s difficulty as a ratio of “standard novel pages per page” and profs are given a hard weekly quota based on the mean attentiveness score of the individual students in their classroom