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Gail Newman & Mari Ruti - Against Neoliberal Self-Optimization: Marion Milner and D.W. Winnicott

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

CHAPTER

The Oceanic Effect of Creativity in Psychoanalysis

The book is on creativity, creative living as an antidote to what we're calling neoliberal self actual. We have this idea that our neoliberal society tries to make us sort of into these machines of efficiency and productivity or performance. So in my chapter specifically I begin with La Cants notion of lack in being. And then because I am fundamentally a laconian, I talk about what's notional of lack and how creativity kind of leaps out of that lack in various ways.

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