Shaka Waves: Reply to González and Hartman

ABSTRACT

The author follows the discussants directly to the ocean as they infuse the initial essay with the sensory richness and material placeness accessible only to the genuine participant-observer. The concept of timelessness is dimensionalized to incorporate the swell of history. The reply culminates in a brief amplification of two themes which might otherwise be drowned out by other waves: the sexuality of homo dyadics, and the muses that inspired these sea dreams.

This article responds to:

Surf Time with Adam: Five Waves Make the Set

Sea Dreams: On Adam Blum’s “How to Surf the Oceanic Feeling”

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Adam Blum

Adam Blum is coauthor of the forthcoming book Here I’m Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis (Columbia University Press, 2023) with Peter Goldberg and Michael Levin. Other recent projects include “Remembering, Repeating, and Something New: Robert Glasper’s Black Radio 3” (2022) in fort da; “Music, Sensory Communion, and the Weaving of Collective Embodiment,” presented with Goldberg and Levin at the 2020 APsaA Meeting in New York; and “Getting Home: Discussion of Henry Markman’s ‘Accompaniment in Jazz and Psychoanalysis’” (2020) in Psychoanalytic Dialogues. He has written and presented on psychoanalysis and the music of Björk, Kendrick Lamar, Stephen Sondheim, Michael Jackson, and Aretha Franklin. He is in private practice in San Francisco.