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Pill Pod 229 - Theory of the Gooner
🕑 Added 2025-10-31 17:19:12 +0000 UTCThe Pill Pod reads Daniel Kolitz' anthropology of the gooners in Harper's Magazine https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/the-goon-squad-daniel-kolitz-porn-masturbation-loneliness/ and we find it's all connected man Other sources cited included Lacan Seminar X, Freud Beyond the Pleasure Principle, and Baudrillard Transparency of Evil
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Lonza75
Finally. Some popular topic I can bring up in casual conversations.
Brendan Ramsey
Some people who are newer to Lacan and psychoanalysis start to suggest that there is some sort of broad-sweeping “psychoticization” of the younger generations, but what I think we’re seeing is a mass-proliferation of new neurotic phenotypes, new ways in which neurotic fantasy constructs itself. Also, there is some theory about how when people are online, it’s like the rules are looser, they feel less beholden to their IRL dogmas. I can’t recall any particular piece but I’ve certainly seen some citations in recent publications. I suspect the Lacanians need to get to work at theorizing the internet and the psychoanalytic implications of virtuality, and if they have already, I’d love to know.
