The Topeka School

by Ben Lerner

That all desire in some Lacanian sense involves misidentification?

She was jealous, Sima said, of how Jane had me—someone who listened, who knew how to hold feeling, whereas for Eric, everything was dopamine or serotonin.

we thought that if we had a language for our feelings we might transcend them. More often we fed them.

nothing is a cliché when you’re living it.)

Jane had talked us down.