A complex and controversial figure, Lacan held therapy sessions for ten minutes or three hours, seduced patients, freely belched and farted, all while rubbing shoulders with the most prominent intellectuals of his day.
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“A squirrel, from the lofty depths of his domestic tree, chattered either in anger or merriment—for a squirrel is such a choleric and humorous little personage, that it is hard to distinguish between his moods—so he chattered at the child, and flung down a nut upon her head.”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
“He was a Confederate sympathizer who opposed slavery, not because he thought Black people were equal, but because he worried it would make white people lazy.”
― Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
― Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
“We kissed deeply for a long time, my heart hammering in my cunt.”
― Her Body and Other Parties
― Her Body and Other Parties
“A complex and controversial figure, Lacan held therapy sessions for ten minutes or three hours, seduced patients, freely belched and farted, all while rubbing shoulders with the most prominent intellectuals of his day.”
― Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
― Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
“Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later. The global population fell by 10 percent. The decline in slash-and-burn agriculture and the reforestation of tens of millions of hectares of cultivated land resulted in a reduction in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is visible in the ice cores drilled by scientists in the Antarctic. The demographic collapse cooled the global surface air temperature by 0.15 degrees Celsius, contributing to the Little Ice Age in the early 1600s.[28]”
― Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
― Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
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