In the year before I split up with my ex-partner, several things changed. I started to spend more time with new friends, stay out later on weekends and began treating myself to fancy pedicures on a bi-weekly basis. Most importantly, I stopped writing about my then-partner. Our relationship was already on the rocks and I…
The French school of mid twentieth-century philosophy drew particular attention to signs, signifiers, and the spectacle. Begun a few years after the widespread acceptance of Freudian theory the writings of Jacques Lacan (Écrits), philosophy and psychology melded in some very enlightening ways. Of course this movement was precipitated by the invention of the television which…
