When you believe in your death, you do not waste time - let us say that you waste less of it - and above all you live a better life. Death enlightens us; I see it as a guiding star.
- Betty Milan, Analysis by Lacan, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, p. 127.
Lacan was not there to respond to a demand for unconditional love, but for the analysand to stop being contrary to herself, to assume her desire, and to become the subject of her own history.
- Betty Milan, Analyzed by Lacan, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, p. 24.
30.04.24-1
29.04.24-1
Diary
First session of a class on Sylvia Plath taught by Victoria Chang and Matthew Zapruder. One of the readings was The Collosus, an early poem that looks ahead to her later ones. Chang and Zapruder are very good, not just discussing the poems, but doing so as poets. I went for a walk earlier and then worked on a proposal, revising it to the format its recipient uses, shortening it, making it clearer.
28.04.24-1
Diary
I went to Fourth Wall Gallery in Oakland to the opening of a show of new work by Nellie King Solomon, who I’ve known since she was four or five. Her daughter and her boyfriend were there, and I was filmed discussing one of her paintings for a documentary of some sort. Before and after, I edited a book review, sent off to the reviewer. Tomorrow is the first session of an online class on Sylvia Plath. I need to do the reading. I have a copy of Ariel, bought at Daunt’s in London. I read the newspapers, not finding much of interest, but HTSI had a feature on an art walk that reminded me of O Caledonia.