In 1846, another rent hike was proposed. In response, the working women established the Factory Girls' Association, and organized a strike, which gained strong community support, and ended up being big enough to make all of Lowell's mills run far below capacity for weeks.

#OtD 11 Nov 1918, 250k men and women began a general strike across Switzerland demanding women's suffrage, pensions and a 48-hour week. 95k troops were brought in to break the strike. Women only got the right to vote in 1971 libcom.org/history/world-…

In analysis people finally realize that they’ve been talking nonsense at full volume for years. ~ Jacques Lacan My Teaching thanks Lacanian Foothold

If Freud's discovery has any meaning, it is that truth grabs error by the scruff of the neck in the mistake. Lacan

"You can't lose what you ain't never had."--Muddy Waters (but also see: Lacan, Jacques).

Bulls in psychoanalysis “I mean, I know it’s coming and I think to myself, ‘hold it together, man...’ But then he waves that red cape and I just LOSE it!” By Mark Anderson

Fine writers do psychoanalysis “War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that the enemy too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.” Karl Kraus, Die Fackel, 1917

“Hey, you win some, you lose some, you get so crippled by self doubt that you stay in bed and ignore some.” By Will McPhail

🚨🚨Thousands of hotel workers with UNITE HERE across the country are now on strike! Hotel workers are fighting for higher pay, manageable workloads, and increased staffing that were eroded through COVID-era cuts by the major hotel operators.🚨🚨

A general strike has been confirmed. The head of the Labor union has said the government is preventing a ceasefire deal due to political considerations. The airport will shut down, schools, businesses, local authorities and more. End the war. Save the hostages. Enough.

Freud’s id is the real. JL, 1975

Linus van Pelt, the young philosopher “You know what, Snoopy? I don’t understand people... No matter how hard I try, I just don’t understand them!” By Charles M. Schulz

Sigmund Freud, On Narcissism, 1914

By Chris Dubuis Santini

What Mental Health Care Protections Exist in Your State? propublica.org/article/mental…

Lacan on Madness.

Things are comical. Indeed this may be our only hope for a future for psychoanalysis – if it is able to sufficiently devote itself to comical things.

"Goldman’s biggest obstacle on the path to revolution, it turned out, was himself. Having hatched a plan to kidnap Jacques Lacan, he was overwhelmed with awe when he saw the white-haired thinker exiting his office and simply left." theguardian.com/film/2024/sep/…

Fine Surrealist poet, playwright, novelist, film directors do psychoanalysis “Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.” Jean Cocteau, photographed by Man Ray in 1921