Cestum Veneris

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What it looks like when neurons make connections and communicate with each other

Credit: slava__bobrov 

shit man this got me emotional

Really interesting part of the book I just started reading

This little book written in the 2nd century makes my train ride at 6am a bit more bearable and fun

Psychoanalysis becomes the training ground of a new kind of priest, the director of bad conscience: bad conscience has made us sick, but that is what will cure us! Freud did not hide what was really at issue with the introduction of the death instinct: it is not a question of any fact whatever, but merely of a principle, a question of principle. The death instinct is pure silence, pure transcendence, not givabie and not given in experience. This very point is remarkable: it is because death, according to Freud, has neither a model nor an experience, that he makes of it a transcendent principle.

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Capitalism and Schizophrenia

My desk in October 2021

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