You’ve found a place where psychoanalysis collides with things it probably shouldn’t.
This project is written by a clinical psychoanalyst (Member of the International Psychoanalytical Association) who believes the most interesting ideas emerge when disciplines stop being polite and start confronting each other.
Every week, a deep and intense interdisciplinary collision. No paywalls. No self-help. No wellness platitudes. Just rigorous thinking applied to culture, neuroscience, and the mechanics of desire.
Route 1: Pop Culture → Clinical Depth
Start here if you want to see how anime, TikTok, and productivity culture reveal deep psychological structures.
- Ash Ketchum vs. Your 5AM Routine — What Pokémon teaches us about toxic productivity
- GutTok Is Right — And That Should Terrify You — Your body knows things before your brain does
- The April Fool’s Vaccine — Why we need to be fooled to trust
Route 2: Science → Meaning
Start here if you want to see neuroscience and psychoanalysis argue productively.
- Your Brain in Superposition — How your mind inhabits multiple states
Route 3: Identity → Critique
Start here if you want to question the stories culture tells you about who you are.
- The Boy Who Solved the Nash Equilibrium — Five scenes on suffering as proof of worth
- I Believe in You, but You’ve Got to Want This Moment — When parenting becomes your first breakup
Route 4: Connection → Loneliness
Start here if you want to understand why loneliness isn’t just one thing.
- Nobody Sneezes for the Same Reason — Five dimensions of loneliness
- The Best of Both Worlds Was a Lie — What game theory tells us about growing up
Route 5: Geopolitics → Diagnosis
Start here if you want to see psychoanalysis diagnose global events as symptoms.
- Houston, We Lost Something — Why returning to the Moon might be the most elegant way of not grieving
What You’ll Get
One collision per week. Each essay brings together at least two frameworks that don’t usually share a room — and makes them argue until something useful emerges. Primary sources cited. Limits acknowledged. No guru energy.
This is a project of Intellectual Patronage: 100% of the content is free, forever. If it changes how you think, there will be ways to support the work — but never a paywall between you and the ideas.