Julie Reshe
Drew Dalton on Philipp Mainländer: The Ultimate Philosophical Pessimist
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About the Talk:
With some contempt for how the "mindfulness movement" has been co-opted by the psy-industries' preoccupation with becoming a better self, this presentation explores how different a hybrid of Buddhism and Psychoanalysis might sound. Starting with the Buddhist notion of non-self and following the existential thread found in both Buddhism and Psychoanalysis, it argues for a therapeutic method that resists the soteriological fantasy of "cure" and proposes that the only way we can truly "be with" our inevitable struggles is through "care."
Dr Jason Ross is a practicing psychologist with a PhD in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis from the Global Centre of Advanced Studies. He takes a critical stance towards conventional psychology and its ideas of what it means to be supposedly normal.
About the Talk:
The aim of this talk is to reconsider the notion of giving up and to explore how we often soften negativity through actions that present themselves as negative. Concepts like “surrendering” or “letting go” can dilute the harshness of giving up by implying some form of resolution or outcome. However, giving up, as Rivera sees it, is a more severe form of negativity that acknowledges the persistent nature of loss and suffering. It offers a way to confront the impossibility of change or improvement in certain circumstances, highlighting a form of presence that only giving up can provide.
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:42 What is the difference between the understanding of anxiety in common usage, psychoanalysis, and existentialism?
00:04:21 Is anxiety inherent to human existence or a recent cultural development?
00:08:09 How is current anxiety different from when your book was published?
00:11:30 How is the current war in Ukraine similar and different to the wars in your book and the futuristic wars you anticipated?
00:20:29 Julie got lost
00:26:31 “in the domain of love, things are even getting worse”
00:30:42 How does anxiety interact with psychoanalytic practice? Does psychotherapy exploit suffering?
00:36:44 How do we distinguish between paralyzing anxiety and anxiety that drives social change?
00:43:14 Current culture often emphasizes happiness and dismisses anxiety.
00:45:29 A formula for happiness.
00:46:33 Anxiety of parenting
This discussion took place as part of the Patreon Summer School/Book Club 'From Tragedy to Comedy'.
Access readings here: patreon.com/posts/summer-school-to-105287015
Access readings here: patreon.com/posts/summer-school-to-105287015
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0:32 The Last Well Person
2:05 Medicalization
5:22 Women's Issues
9:10 Power of Medicine
11:10 Social Reification
13:21 Psychiatric Control
16:20 Age of Depression
20:38 Cultural Sadness
21:45 Self Care
23:50 Gendered Phenomenon
26:22 Age of Anxiety
30:17 God or Devil?
35:33 Q&A
Dr. Wanyoung Kim is a recognized interdisciplinary scholar, researcher, and lecturer who combines her knowledge and training in psychology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and technology.
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The topics covered in this chapter have already been discussed in this video: youtu.be/t4lUxfwqUqA?si=5UPmpXPSl-OKWcyQ
In this talk, I concentrate on the general overview and specifically on the topic of the invention of the Spielreinian practice.
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Maksym Kryvtsov poetry translation: http://surl.li/qaase
To read the mentioned essay on war: patreon.com/posts/january-2024-war-96108317
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Information about the book and the Table of Contents is available here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-31201-4
If you've been curious about my book, you are welcome to join my Patreon community: www.patreon.com/juliereshe
Information about the book and the Table of Contents is available here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-31201-4
If you've been curious about my book, you are welcome to join my Patreon community: www.patreon.com/juliereshe
Information about the book and the Table of Contents is available here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-31201-4
If you've been curious about my book, you are welcome to join my Patreon community: www.patreon.com/juliereshe
Information about the book and the Table of Contents is available here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-31201-4
If you've been curious about my book, you are welcome to join my Patreon community: www.patreon.com/juliereshe
Information about the book and the Table of Contents is available here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-31201-4
If you've been curious about my book, you are welcome to join my Patreon community: www.patreon.com/juliereshe
Information about the book and the Table of Contents is available here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-31201-4
If you've been curious about my book, you are welcome to join my Patreon community: www.patreon.com/juliereshe
Information about the book and the Table of Contents is available here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-31201-4
If you've been curious about my book, you are welcome to join my Patreon community: www.patreon.com/juliereshe
Information about the book and the Table of Contents is available here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-31201-4
If you've been curious about my book, you are welcome to join my Patreon community: www.patreon.com/juliereshe
Information about the book and the Table of Contents is available here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-31201-4
If you've been curious about my book, you are welcome to join my Patreon community: www.patreon.com/juliereshe
From October to December 2023, I'll be making segments of my book available for my Patreon members. Every Thursday, we come together to contemplate and discuss each segment.
Information about the book and the Table of Contents is available here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-31201-4
If you've been curious about my book, you are welcome to join my Patreon community: www.patreon.com/juliereshe
From October to December 2023, I'll be making segments of my book available for my Patreon members. Every Thursday, we come together to contemplate and discuss each segment.
Information about the book and the Table of Contents is available here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-31201-4
If you've been curious about my book, you are welcome to join my Patreon community: www.patreon.com/juliereshe
From October to December 2023, I'll be making segments of my book available for my Patreon members. Every Thursday, we come together to contemplate and discuss each segment.
Information about the book and the Table of Contents is available here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-31201-4
If you've been curious about my book, you are welcome to join my Patreon community: www.patreon.com/juliereshe
From October to December 2023, I'll be making segments of my book available for my Patreon members. Every Thursday, we come together to contemplate and discuss each segment.
You can enroll for the next Negative Group here: juliereshe.com/service-page/negative-therapy-training-group-6
Summary: This presentation discusses the works of Spielrein, Brison and Malabou and outlines their argument that destruction is a creative force. And that traumatic events could be seen as creative as they create a new narrative self where the old was destroyed.
The second part of this presentation is grappling with the 'negative' part of negative psychoanalysis. Derrida put forward the idea of the "Aporia", (where Socrates debates his opponent into a state of puzzlement) being the true place of philosophy, and that Plato or Socrates' putting forward their solution is to save themselves from the anxiety caused by allowing the Other to breathe.
You can enroll for the next Negative Group here: juliereshe.com/service-page/negative-therapy-training-group-6
You can enroll for the next Negative Group here: juliereshe.com/service-page/negative-therapy-training-group-6
Summary: Across all fields of academia, a sense of disillusionment is spreading. Epistemic violence is manifesting within academia, resulting in broader injustices and exclusion of certain philosophies and entire voices from the philosophical canon. By invalidating these philosophies and writing them off as being experiences instead of valid forms of philosophical investigation, the field of negative philosophy comes into light, attempting to deconstruct the existing injustices within philosophy while simultaneously taking part in it. This recognition of incompleteness and contradiction of how we define "good" philosophy with the negative philosophy we practice thus fuels the self-perpetuating cycle of academic disillusionment.
You can enroll for the next Negative Group here: juliereshe.com/service-page/negative-therapy-training-group-6
Summary: This academic work delves into the concept of pessimism, contending that it serves as an essential lens for critical observation of the natural world.
Despite its significance, this lens has encountered marginalization in both psychological and mainstream narratives, it has become a subject of splitting and is being dangerously submerged into abjection.
Considering the thinking of Speilrein, Freud, and Klein I use a psychoanalytic framework to think about the resistance’s pessimism evokes in us. Ultimately pointing to Nietzsche’s “pessimism of strength” as a justification for overcoming said resistances.
“Every genuine philosophy every true religion is wrapped in the earthly garment of pessimism as the only accurate mode of reviewing the world befitting man in the awareness of his nothingness” (Jung, 1898)
You can enroll for the next Negative Group here: juliereshe.com/service-page/negative-therapy-training-group-6
Information about the book and the Table of Contents is available here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-31201-4
If you've been curious about my book, you are welcome to join my Patreon community: www.patreon.com/juliereshe
From October to December 2023, I'll be making segments of my book available for my Patreon members. Every Thursday, we come together to contemplate and discuss each segment.
00:00 Introduction of the book, chapters overview.
05:03 Julie Reshe on personal reasons for writing this book.
09:46 Catherine Malabou, Todd McGowan, and Alenka Zupančič replying to the question: "Can their life be comprehended as a failure?"
15:56 "We are all dead" - Alenka Zupančič.
18:12 Catherine Malabou on the uselessness of philosophy.
26:14 "I have this total sense that I'm not doing anything to help anybody else" - Todd McGowan.
27:58 Catherine Malabou, Todd McGowan, and Alenka Zupančič replying to the question: "How are philosophers different from other people?"
40:04 Catherine Malabou, Todd McGowan, and Alenka Zupančič replying to the question: "Is writing a book anxious, and do their children respect them for being philosophers?"
48:13 Julie Reshe replying to the question: "Why does she present herself in such a desperate way?"
Here's a link to the book: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-31201-4
The lecture is an attempt to develop a feminist version of depressive realism.
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"I believe it's disrespectful to women to narrow the cause of their suffering to men"
link to the course syllabus: https://www.academia.edu/.../PH2017_Feminist_Philosophy_UCC
Link to the course syllabus: https://www.academia.edu/91861120/PH3113_Philosophy_of_Existence_and_Death_UCC
What if they are not foreign but genuinely human and therefore incurable? The course will be practically oriented, it will introduce the perspective of depressive realism and explore realistic options:
▪️ how to live on if you are dead inside,
▪️ how to live with others who are also dead inside,
▪️ how to live in the cruel reality of the world that doesn’t care about you.
It will be of interest to those who want to learn more about depressive realism, those who are seeking a 'self-help' alternative, and/or those who have already given up and who don't seek anything anymore.
The course will consist of three theoretical sessions (Zoom and Facebook Livestream) and one practical session (Zoom), the intention of which is to form a community and a network of 'dead-inside' people who refuse to be brought together based on a positive bias.
Saturdays, June 4, 11, 18, 25, 8pm CET
Zoom link: us02web.zoom.us/j/6053262703
This course is free, but donations are most welcome:
www.patreon.com/juliereshe
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Julie Reshe (Ukrainian: Жюлi Реше) is a Ukrainian-born philosopher and a practicing negative psychoanalyst. She is currently a visiting professor at University College Cork and University College Dublin. She is also a Director of the Institute of Psychoanalysis at the Global Centre for Advanced Studies.
Sign up for a private session:
drjuliereshe.com
What if they are not foreign but genuinely human and therefore incurable? The course will be practically oriented, it will introduce the perspective of depressive realism and explore realistic options:
▪️ how to live on if you are dead inside,
▪️ how to live with others who are also dead inside,
▪️ how to live in the cruel reality of the world that doesn’t care about you.
It will be of interest to those who want to learn more about depressive realism, those who are seeking a 'self-help' alternative, and/or those who have already given up and who don't seek anything anymore.
The course will consist of three theoretical sessions (Zoom and Facebook Livestream) and one practical session (Zoom), the intention of which is to form a community and a network of 'dead-inside' people who refuse to be brought together based on a positive bias.
Saturdays, June 4, 11, 18, 25, 8pm CET
Zoom link: us02web.zoom.us/j/6053262703
This course is free, but donations are most welcome:
www.patreon.com/juliereshe
________________
Julie Reshe (Ukrainian: Жюлi Реше) is a Ukrainian-born philosopher and a practicing negative psychoanalyst. She is currently a visiting professor at University College Cork and University College Dublin. She is also a Director of the Institute of Psychoanalysis at the Global Centre for Advanced Studies.
Sign up for a private session:
drjuliereshe.com
What if they are not foreign but genuinely human and therefore incurable? The course will be practically oriented, it will introduce the perspective of depressive realism and explore realistic options:
▪️ how to live on if you are dead inside,
▪️ how to live with others who are also dead inside,
▪️ how to live in the cruel reality of the world that doesn’t care about you.
It will be of interest to those who want to learn more about depressive realism, those who are seeking a 'self-help' alternative, and/or those who have already given up and who don't seek anything anymore.
The course will consist of three theoretical sessions (Zoom and Facebook Livestream) and one practical session (Zoom), the intention of which is to form a community and a network of 'dead-inside' people who refuse to be brought together based on a positive bias.
Saturdays, June 4, 11, 18, 25, 8pm CET
Zoom link: us02web.zoom.us/j/6053262703
This course is free, but donations are most welcome:
www.patreon.com/juliereshe
________________
Julie Reshe (Ukrainian: Жюлi Реше) is a Ukrainian-born philosopher and a practicing negative psychoanalyst. She is currently a visiting professor at University College Cork and University College Dublin. She is also a Director of the Institute of Psychoanalysis at the Global Centre for Advanced Studies.
Sign up for a private session:
drjuliereshe.com
▪️ Human animal 0:38
▪️ Hope for harmony 12:20
▪️ What is wrong with positive psychology? 18:23
▪️ Death drive 27:20
▪️ Trauma and anxiety 36:40
▪️ World today ("Solidarity is a struggle") 46:14
Alenka Zupančič is a Slovene philosopher and social theorist. She is a professor of philosophy at The European Graduate School (EGS) and a research advisor at the Institute of Philosophy, Scientific Research Center of the Slovene Academy of Sciences.
Julie Reshe is a philosopher and a practicing negative psychoanalyst of Ukrainian Gypsy origin.
▪️ Destructive plasticity 0:22
▪️ The new wounded 5:46
▪️ The world today 13:43
▪️ The future 20:17
▪️ New solidarity 23:00
▪️ Anarchism 32:40
Catherine Malabou is a philosopher. She is a professor of philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS and professor of modern European philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University, London.
Julie Reshe is a philosopher and a practicing negative psychoanalyst of Ukrainian Gypsy origin.
This lecture is a part of the course "Psychoanalysis, Then and Now" co-taught with Duane Rousselle.
"This course is a journey to the past of psychoanalysis and its possible future. We will study concepts of psychoanalytic thought and get acquainted with major psychoanalytic thinkers (Freud, Lacan, Miller, and others). The course will discuss “the death of psychoanalysis” — the critique of psychoanalysis from the feminist, critical thought, and scientific perspectives. Both professors teaching this course are important contributors to the contemporary field of psychoanalysis."
The School of Advanced Studies (SAS), the University of Tyumen, was opened in 2017 in the frame of the Russian Academic Excellence Project 5top100. The strategic goal of SAS in the field of research is to contribute to the global debate on the fundamental problems of modern knowledge that emerge at the intersections of humanities, social sciences, and sciences (primarily biology and computer science). The strategic goal of SAS in the field of education is to provide high-quality broad interdisciplinary education for talented students from Russia and abroad, as well as to take on the role of a laboratory to develop new solutions, instruments, and modelling approaches to the undergraduate education that can be used in the universities across the country.
Course syllabus:
https://www.academia.edu/65198060/PSYCHOANALYSIS_THEN_AND_NOW_SAS_2021_syllabus_with_links_to_lectures_
https://sas.utmn.ru/en/about-en/
drjuliereshe.com
youtube.com/c/DuaneRousselle
drduanerousselle.com
This lecture is a part of the course "Psychoanalysis, Then and Now" co-taught with Duane Rousselle.
"This course is a journey to the past of psychoanalysis and its possible future. We will study concepts of psychoanalytic thought and get acquainted with major psychoanalytic thinkers (Freud, Lacan, Miller, and others). The course will discuss “the death of psychoanalysis” — the critique of psychoanalysis from the feminist, critical thought, and scientific perspectives. Both professors teaching this course are important contributors to the contemporary field of psychoanalysis."
The School of Advanced Studies (SAS), the University of Tyumen, was opened in 2017 in the frame of the Russian Academic Excellence Project 5top100. The strategic goal of SAS in the field of research is to contribute to the global debate on the fundamental problems of modern knowledge that emerge at the intersections of humanities, social sciences, and sciences (primarily biology and computer science). The strategic goal of SAS in the field of education is to provide high-quality broad interdisciplinary education for talented students from Russia and abroad, as well as to take on the role of a laboratory to develop new solutions, instruments, and modelling approaches to the undergraduate education that can be used in the universities across the country.
Course syllabus:
https://www.academia.edu/65198060/PSYCHOANALYSIS_THEN_AND_NOW_SAS_2021_syllabus_with_links_to_lectures_
https://sas.utmn.ru/en/about-en/
drjuliereshe.com
youtube.com/c/DuaneRousselle
drduanerousselle.com
This course is based on the research conducted by SAS research team Education in the Tragic Key: Learning in an age of Crisis and Anxiety. This course critically explores different theoretical and philosophical perspectives related to education and pedagogy. We will examine and compare different theoretical perspectives on the field of teaching and learning.
Among others, the course discusses the following issues: Critical pedagogy, Anarchist pedagogy, Therapeutic education, Existential dimension of learning.
This course is based on the research conducted by SAS research team Education in the Tragic Key: Learning in an age of Crisis and Anxiety. This course critically explores different theoretical and philosophical perspectives related to education and pedagogy. We will examine and compare different theoretical perspectives on the field of teaching and learning.
Among others, the course discusses the following issues: Critical pedagogy, Anarchist pedagogy, Therapeutic education, Existential dimension of learning.


