Lily Scherlis

3 weeks ago | thepreamble.com | Lily Scherlis |Andrew Dubbins |Emily Witt |Adam Kinzinger

Here’s what you might have missed this week:How does today’s texting scandal compare to Hillary Clinton’s emails? Also: Are people being denied entry to the US because they were critical of the Trump administration? An abrupt about-face in Canada that dissolved the government, and details of a Supreme Court ruling on guns. Donald Trump claims that because Joe Biden used an autopen when signing pardons for the members of the Jan.

Jan 25, 2024 | thebaffler.com | Lily Scherlis

A bad personality is the worst thing you can have. “When you walk up there, you have a pad, you have to write in all caps at the top of the pad: ‘LIKABLE,’” an adviser admonished Ron DeSantis during debate prep in 2018. This was good advice: DeSantis has the face of an entitled child hearing “no” for the first time. If I close my eyes, I can almost imagine someone pulling the lever for DeSantis. But I cannot imagine anyone liking him personally.

Jul 22, 2023 | theguardian.com | Evelyn Miller |Charlotte Edwardes |Marina Hyde |Lily Scherlis |Serena Manteghi |Calum Finlay

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Jul 14, 2023 | theguardian.com | Lily Scherlis

We are obsessed with invisible circles. “Personal boundaries” – or often just “boundaries” – are nowadays seen as the hallmark of emotional maturity. Wellness influencers promise that if you clarify the line dividing you from those around you, your boyfriend will stop envying your career and start doing the dishes. Children will stay out of your home office. Friends and lovers will stop using you as a screen for their projections.

Jul 10, 2023 | parapraxismagazine.com | Lily Scherlis

What I’m calling the first wave of boundaries rhetoric—in contrast to the second wave of the ’90s—shows up on the periphery of ego psychology. Between 1964 and 1967, three people on the fringes of the discipline published work valorizing the “boundaries” of the self, seemingly arriving to it independently of one another. It came to psychoanalysis from the outside, as if slipping in through the service entrance. This seems like a coincidence until you spot the Cold War looming in the background.