Perhaps I need to try a different approach to this blog. Initially, I thought I would focus on a political matters, bringing in commentary on aspects of provincial and federal politics that were not being covered by the Telegram, the CBC, or other mainline media. (I don't watch CTV news, and won't subscribe to the Globe & Mail or the Financial Post.) But then, after my participation in the last provincial election, and other preoccupations during the COVID lockdown, I have found that my interests focus more on understanding Jacques Lacan's approach to psychoanalysis, translating, at the behest of my New York friend Richard K, who maintains a wonderful resource online, freud2lacan, obscure or little known texts by Lacan, and rekindling my interest in Alain Robbe-Grillet using the optics of Lacan's insights. For most of the summer of 2022, I struggled to prepare a presentation for a Robbe-Grillet conference in Brest, which was organised to celebrate the centenary of ...