If desire is a flow, then what stops it and what happens to it when it is jammed up? Here is where we finally talk about how desires operate, how they get stymied, and how the repression itself can cause the very thing it's attempting to prevent.

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The Quarantine Collective takes on the works and history of William Blake. Artist and Poet who even invented ways of being both, he was reviled by his contemporaries for eschewing common media and form for something grander. We discuss what that is.

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Join the collective as we break apart the three syntheses as we prepare for moving onto Chapter 3. This regrouping is necessary to break down many of the finer points.

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We return to a recapitulation as we review the three syntheses, which we have reviewed quite a bit. More to the point, we have a review of this reviewing chapter about our reviews coming soon.

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This seemingly interminable section which is a deep takedown of the concepts that have plague psychoanalysis for years are reviewed in depth by our group. If you've had any issues with any concepts, we probably cover it!

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Working through the final paragraphs of the Conjunctive Synthesis was a major trudge, but luckily worth it. We didn't finish though - that's for the Review Session that is now a main reading.

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Further into this incredibly dense section we go as we once again talk about Eggs, further talking about having daddy and mommy issues at a societal level, and Lacanian Foreclosure, because why not bring in even more difficult concepts?

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The body without Organs is like an egg. Well not an egg, but the essence of an egg, but not like a chicken egg, it's like a protoplasmic egg. Egg.

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We bring up Kant a few times, dig deeply into the double-bind that classical use of Oedipus foists on humanity, and welcome a hopefully ongoing visit from theorist Taylor Adkins who tells us we are actually making good points once in a while.Please check out Taylors amazing Theory Talk podcast at https://soundcloud.com/theory-talk

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Henry Miller: It is a world suited for monomaniacs obsessed with the idea of progress - but a false progress, a progress which stinks. It is a world cluttered with useless objects which men and women, in order to be exploited and degraded, are taught to regard as useful ... Whatever does not lend itself to being bought or sold ... is debarred

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