Surf Time with Adam: Five Waves Make the Set

ABSTRACT

In his beautiful mediation on the sights and sounds that crest in waves of oceanic feeling, Adam Blum challenges a false binary between intuiting the moment and understanding the moment – and, by extension, being in love and knowing love. With attention to how temporality inheres differently during listening and seeing, I describe how psychoanalysts and anthropologists differently locate structure in the manner of being in time that their method posits. Surfers and yoga practitioners span perception immersively – as does Blum – such that listening and seeing, being and knowing, inhere as union, in an Ocean that, when encountered in the simultaneity of possibility and constraint which translates as the love fellow surfers share, joins accomplices in the arc of history at the peak of momentum, as a community vested with the challenge of the next climactic wave.

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How to Surf the Oceanic Feeling

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Shaka Waves: Reply to González and Hartman

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Stephen Hartman

Stephen Hartman, Ph.D. is joint editor-in-chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and a former editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality. Faculty at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and NYU Postdoctoral Program, his book project, Reading with Muriel Dimen/Writing with Muriel Dimen: Experiments in Theorizing a Field is in press at Routledge.