Selling enemas to replace psych meds, or treat cancer, or cure autism is some dangerous shit.
But Matthew has a tingling sense that the wellness enema craze promises more than false health benefits. Perhaps the coffee might be an artisanal distraction from a more existential promise: a ritual of cleansing and muscular control for a world that feels filthy, guilty, and in absolute chaos. A way of returning to a crucially innocent time when you learned to hold it all in, then given permission to let it all out, and then lovingly cleaned up when you did.
Today, Instagram gives us permission to show it to the world: look at what I made! Look at how fresh and pure I am! Look at how I am polishing my innermost self. Look at this magic of making the invisible visible.
Welcome to your 50-minute analysis session to process Mallory’s brilliant reporting on Thursday: a tour through a labyrinth of dirt, control, differentiation, exhibitionism, shame—and possibly reclamation and integration.
Chapters:

How to Read an Enema

Managing Filth with Freud

Winnicott’s the Best

The Abject

Political Shit

Dear Kyah


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Show Notes
Conspirituality 192: Coffee is Your Friend, Not Your Enema
Paranoid Reading, Reparative Reading — Sedgwick
Know Your Enemy: UNLOCKED: Freud and Politics (w/ Pat Blanchfield) on Apple Podcasts
Freud, "Character and Anal Eroticism" | PDF
THE SEMINAR OF JACQUES LACAN BOOK X ANXIETY 1962 - 1963
The child, the family, and the outside world : Winnicott, D. W. (Donald Woods), 1896-1971 : Internet Archive
Kristeva, Julia. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982.
Pro-Trump rioters smeared poop in US Capitol hallways during belligerent attack
Are Anti-Vaxers Really Pooping Themselves Because of Ivermectin?
What Donald Trump Actually Smells Like, According to Ex-GOP Congressman
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