Author: Iansã

On why it is important to know people who are intellectually oriented and can evaluate research

27/01/2013

For quite some time, unknown to most of the general public and even many doctors, researchers have used a variety of methods to test the serotonin (and other neurotransmitter) imbalance theory of depression. Research methods included comparing serotonin metabolites in depressed and nondepressed people, and depleting serotonin levels through a variety of means and then … More On why it is important to know people who are intellectually oriented and can evaluate research

Michel Foucault

27/01/2013

Continuous history is the indispensable correlative of the founding function of the subject: the guarantee that everything has eluded him may be restored him; the certainty that time will disperse nothing without restoring it in a reconstituted unity; the promise that one day the subject — in the form of historical consciousness — will once … More Michel Foucault

One sentence

27/01/2013

I cut this sentence out of a document to make it shorter, but I like the sentence as the draft of an image and I would like to use it as material for fiction or art. The meanings of terms become unclear, the conversation bogs down, and the question is not answered. Axé.

On psychoanalysis

27/01/2013

I have looked some things up on psychoanalysis because these novels I am looking at lend themselves to it, because it might come back into fashion. I know very little of it really, and I did not realize Freud had written so much about anxiety (although of course he would have). My anxiety, of course, … More On psychoanalysis

Let us see

26/01/2013

I have found and cleaned the text. I wrote it off the cuff in 1989 or 1990. I had read the novel so as to teach it, and laughed all the way through (you are supposed to cry) because it was so … overt. Then someone wanted to fill a conference slot in a related area, … More Let us see

Le samedi

26/01/2013

I woke up this morning from a vivid dream in which I was having shiatsu massage, at my acupuncture studio in Lima. The masseur was stretching my neck, and there was a student watching intently. Suddenly he paused. He had picked up on something. “Professor Zero,” he said, “Why is it that you always strive … More Le samedi

Friday (non) work tracking; La casa de Bernarda Alba and academic advice

25/01/2013

Fridays are my day off this semester. I learned of this trick from a department chair I once had, who was unavailable Fridays because it was his designated housework, shopping, and errands day. He needed a weekday, he pointed out, since some shopping and errands have to happen when businesses are open, and he did … More Friday (non) work tracking; La casa de Bernarda Alba and academic advice