What follows is a series of hypotheses that continues a project which I have begun in The Violence of Empathy, which may be accessed here. 1: One must remember that empathy takes place always within the symbolic order: a body must have the means for recognizing and internalizing another’s pain; such recognition is prone to…

The inspiration for this essay came after writing, on another occasion: “My suffering becomes unbearable if ever I have to suffer alone. Misery loves company. There is a selfish, plaintive plea in each complaint, as one begs the other to hurt as well—even as one hopes that this may be just commiseration, rather than wrathful…

More than just a film about homosexual love, Call Me By Your Name captures the very essence of the human condition...The captivating power of Luca Guadagnino’s tour de force lies in its capacity to rend—from beneath the shroud of artifice, of society, of sexuality—that which is universally human: a bleeding heart.

Transcursion is the desire from which the birthday springs; it is the need to punctuate time into a clearly delineated order, as if this formless medium was a thin membrane that one could puncture—as if time, like a body of water, could be clearly demarcated.