Coup de Grace

03/30/2024

A free essay on selfishness and altruism on this rainy Saturday in San Diego.

Oh, also, have you checked out the eBook "Coup de Grace: A 21st Century Psychoanalysis" on Amazon? Save a tree, download a book.

eBook: https://rb.gy/ilopw0

A free essay to announce that "Coup de Grace: A 21st Century Psychoanalysis" is now published on Amazon and available for download

03/28/2024

Heading into the long weekend with a copy of Coup de Grace to keep you company?

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Coup de Grace is a fresh and dynamic take on post-Enlightenment philosophical and 20th century psychoanalytic concepts, inspired by Continental European psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan and postmodern thinkers like Julia Kristeva, Gilles Deleuze, Slavoj Žižek, Todd McGowan, and othe....

03/26/2024

DEAR READERS :: BIG NEWS

"Coup de Grace: A 21st Century Psychoanalysis" is now available for download on Amazon Kindle and Kindle Unlimited.

Now YOU can have access to THIS dynamic crash course in postmodern psychoanalysis and cultural commentary at your fingertips, all in one place, for just $6.99 (US) on Amazon Kindle or for free if you have a Kindle Unlimited account.

Be sure to check it out!

Coup de Grace is a fresh and dynamic take on post-Enlightenment philosophical and 20th century psychoanalytic concepts, inspired by Continental European psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan and postmodern thinkers like Julia Kristeva, Giles Deleuze, Slavoj Žižek, Todd McGowan, and other....

03/01/2024

So, after making my articles free the Substack CMS automatically returned them to being paid articles. Something about being more than two weeks old (archived).

I have switched off the archive option and all the articles should be free now. Embarrassing!

02/29/2024

Hello dear readers,

In light of this year’s leap year (2/29/24), I have decided to republish the Coup de Grace blog under a new pricing scheme.

Namely, the blog is now free!

However, to leave comments, the reader must subscribe.

Subscription prices are:

$6.19 per month

$66.22 per year

Additionally, I will not be adding new essays to this blog. New work will be published elsewhere in the Other.

A sincere thank you to my subscribers and readers.

Best,

-Elie Sherman

Table of Contents:

Capitalism, Socialism, and the Master Signifier

Cosplay and Costumes

Mediation and Constraints

‘They Were Trying to Kill Me’

On Narcissism

‘Is She a Ghost?’

Thought and Memory

Honor and Shame

John Dutton: America’s Favority NIMBY

Some Notes on Guns

‘This is Us’

Down the ‘Rabbit Hole’

‘Double Alienation’

Repetitious Self-Sabotage

Phobia

Faith in Material

Delirium

Abuse

Control and Systems

The blog is liberated.

02/07/2024

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02/02/2024

Per tradition in the Northern Region, our DNR Rangers jumped on board by taking this photo last Thursday. 🙈❄️

Temps in Fairbanks are still lingering around 40 below zero.

NBD. 😉💥

02/01/2024

Here are the top traffic sources to Coup de Grace:

A breakdown of the top 9 traffic sources to Coup de Grace since launching in October 2023.

01/24/2024

In this week's micro-essay, I asked:

What is the value of control? What other factors are involved in systems control? What is a system?

As a signifier, I compared control with Jacques Lacan's concept of the "name-of-the-father."

Some notes on the name-of-the-father.

01/05/2024

What connects abuse with addiction?

Abuse, addiction and trauma.

12/29/2023

This week on Coup de Grace, I tackled psychosis throug "Memoirs of my Nervous Illness" by Daniel P Schreber (1903).

I asked: How does a psychosis enjoy? What role does language play in hallucinations? How does a psychosis reflect greater society?

Check it out and be sure to subscribe for more real talk about mental health on Coup de Grace.

Topics to come:
S*x
Philias
Abuse

Some notes on psychotic enjoyment and the memoirs of Daniel Paul Schreber (1903).

12/22/2023

A free article this week for the Holidays.

In diving into the concept of faith, I asked: Is language possible without it? How is faith related to history and trauma? What role does forgiveness play in (the philosophical concept of) the event? What relationship does faith have with its object or any object?

In discussing these issues, I used Prince Harry's memoir, "Spare," The Crown, Hegel, the Bible, Shakespeare, and The Flaming Lips as examples.

Check it out, and please leave your comments below the article!

Is there any such thing as a historical fact, or just historical data (itself a negation)? Facts have "actual existence" and history is literal phenomena, like a retroactive performance.