HeyJaredWhit·manic
Mapping the deep currents of psyche and history—and translating them into forms that can be felt. From the esoteric library to the clinic and back, with a detour at the PCR machine.
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Out of the institution, into the (friendly) abyss (opens the original)
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Two weeks ago, I marked my Deinstitutionalization Day. On a street corner in Downtown Decatur—with a cigarillo, naturally. I had just wrapped up my last official meeting of my postdoc, and was loitering around ahead of dinner with friends at Atlanta’s most creative Indian restaurant, contemplating what I’d do without university library access for the first time in 9 years.It was nobody’s fault.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!j24s!,f_auto
Rosh HaShana, Yom Kippur, and the Political Compass (opens the original)
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In 9th grade, I stumbled upon the Political Compass—an instrument aimed at blowing up the linear left-right spectrum by disaggregating it into two axes—and in short order, became obsessed. I made all my classmates take it, more or less indifferent to where they’d land—as long as they got back to me with a score. Sometimes, this would entail serious hounding.As an adult, despite my best efforts to talk about anything but politics, I’ve been accused by people who know me well of falling scattersho
The veil is thin with these people (opens the original)
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Details altered to preserve anonymity.One winter evening about a year and a half ago, I sat between my stepsiblings at the Shabbat table, having shlepped from the state hospital all the way over to Bergen County, by way of van, bus, 1 train, and SUV. Not even halfway done with internship, I was already burnt the hell out. “Never a dull moment, though, I’ll give it that.”“Don’t you wonder if some of these people may just be more tuned into something beyond this plane of reality?” G asked, equal p
The view from Fatma Hanım's house (opens the original)
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Early summer travels, a licensing exam, and ordinary lapses in discipline have knocked me out of my writing routine over the last month or so. I’m stalled on drafts about anxiety’s opposite, schizophrenia in evolutionary context, and the Allen Ginsberg centennial. By contrast, mid-April to late May turned out to be an especially productive writing season—thanks to an extraordinarily fun generative nonfiction workshop with at Poetry Field School.To my surprise, I ended up leaning heavily memoiris
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