Psicotepec

The racist doesn't hate the other. He hates his way of enjoying. Difference in enjoyment is lived as fundamental theft. Hatred of another's enjoyment. The neighbor doesn't bother you because of who he is but because of how he lives. His food smells strong, his music plays too loud, his way of speaking grates the ear. The racist doesn't hate the other's presence but his particular way of enjoying life. This difference in enjoyment feels like invasion, as if the other were taking something that...

Life doesn't fit. Analysis doesn't fix that. It teaches you to inhabit what will always be missing. What doesn't fit. There is a point where the accounts don't balance. The ideal partner who suffocates, success that empties, the perfect family that sickens. Something is left over or something is missing, but it never adds up. It is not pessimism or ingratitude. It is the very structure of desire: there is always a remainder that doesn't fit. What doesn't work is not an accident but a...

You don't change your life by changing the scenery. You change when you read what you repeat without knowing it. The stumble that orients. We repeat without knowing we repeat. The same type of partner, the same work conflict, the same family fight with different scenery. It is not bad luck or written destiny. It is a writing that repeats because it has not been read. What doesn't work returns, insists, stumbles always on the same stone. That stone has a proper name. The contemporary subject...