Día de los Muertos / 萬聖節

去年此刻我還住在新英格蘭的小鎮，走路十分鐘有幾座森林與草原，夜晚後院裡有螢火蟲出沒。每周去學校幾次，兩三周去一次隔壁鎮的超市，超市走道邊排列著橙紅色的南瓜，肉桂香氣逼人。楓紅的季節，焦慮著論文與求職，等待第一場雪如往常無聲地降臨。

今年在加州的大城，疫情肆虐，在數據在關閉的店鋪在遠方的屍體，無聲地狂飆。前幾天第一次實體見到同事，隔著口罩與六呎距離，陽光暖和。各家門前，取代千篇一律草皮的，是艷麗招展的沙漠與地中海植物。這裡不下雪。山火在不遠處蔓延。

今年與去年的萬聖節，恍如隔世。

From Lacan to Darwin, by Dylan Evans

When finishing An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis (Chinese translation: 拉岡精神分析詞彙), Dylan Evans was about halfway through the transition from Lacanian Psychoanalysis to Evolutionary Psychology. The process of writing the dictionary revealed to him the "internal contradictions and lack of external confirmation" in Lacanian theory, and the obfuscatory language of Lacan "did not hide a deeper meaning, but was in fact a direct manifestation of the confusion inherent in Lacan's own thought." In an article, From Lacan to Darwin, he laid out the story of his intellectual journey and explained why he rejected Lacanian theory.