Duane Rousselle, PhDGods-All-AloneNote: What follows is a reworked transcript of a talk prepared for Psychoanalysis, Pakistan.Jul 20Jul 20
Duane Rousselle, PhDThe Anxiety of EducatorsNote: what follows is a transcript of a talk given from some notes to faculty in the Comparative Humanities program at Habib University in…Jun 5Jun 5
Duane Rousselle, PhDI am who I amThe modern thesis of disenchantment can no longer be sustained.Apr 28Apr 28
Duane Rousselle, PhDCivil WarCivil War (film) was disappointing. If there was one message: emotional coldness, associated with war-trauma, serves journalists by…Apr 27Apr 27
Duane Rousselle, PhDWe feel unfreeSome of my American colleagues like to repeat: “we are sold freedom as unfreedom.” A similar sentiment, from Slavoj Zizek: “we feel free…Apr 27Apr 27
Duane Rousselle, PhD“Death is a Dream that Perpetuates Life”Notes: “Improvisation: Desire for Death, Dream and Awakening,” Jacques Lacan (Catherine Millot’s Notes, 1981)Apr 23Apr 23
Duane Rousselle, PhDKarachi, on EidKarachi is an interesting place today. The streets are empty and hallow. Few shops are open. Perhaps you find, as I did, a cafe has opened…Apr 10Apr 10
Duane Rousselle, PhDNotes: Freud’s “The Acquisition and Control of Fire” (1931)This short and enigmatic essay seems to demonstrate a movement in Freud’s thinking. He picked up a footnote from his Civilization and…Apr 8Apr 8
Duane Rousselle, PhDGods, All AloneOur western secular age appears to have abolished God. But these atheists are indeed the most pious.Apr 7Apr 7
Duane Rousselle, PhDThe Eternal ParadigmThe domain of politics — discourse, which is always founded on mastery— has eroded. Paradoxically, ours is a time when everything is…Mar 311Mar 311
