What happens when you write? For me, it starts as capturing raw ideas as a stream of words pouring onto the page (screen). The first step of the process is not much different than writing a tweet, posting a selfie, or recording a TikTok video. But what happens next is critical: editing. The text takes shape as ideas are moved

I was recently working with a client who raised a concern over competition between them and a peer in their workplace. As the job market becomes increasingly uncertain, with the number of layoffs increasing every week, this is becoming more common. It is common for organizations to espouse values around teamwork. But at the same time, most organizations encourage a

Last week, we examined Althusser’s concept of Ideology; in this week’s newsletter, we discuss how Slavoj Žižek builds on Althusser’s concepts of ideology in some important ways. Žižek takes Althusser’s view on Ideology: “Ideology represents individuals’ imaginary relation to their real conditions of existence.” 1, and he pushes it even further. For him, Ideology is not just an imaginary view

One of the foremost thinkers of ideology is the French Philosopher Louis Althusser. He expounded on his ideas of ideology in his essay “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Towards an Investigation)” which condenses his book On the Reproduction of Capitalism. I will look at both of those works in this newsletter. The fundamental question that Althusser was trying to

We will return to exploring more aspects of ideology in future newsletters, but this week, I want to focus on the idea of disavowal. Whether the devastating floods caused by Hurricane Hellene and now Milton or the news of another tech company laying off thousands of workers, we are regularly confronted with what the Psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan called the Real.