Jonah Dempcy

Note: Liminal Publications editor and cofounder Alex Fry conducted an interview about this essay, which you can listen to on the Internet Archive (2 hours).

Four Figures of Subtext

Let us start with a simple enough distinction between text and subtext. Let us consider the text to mean…

Quaternary Analysis

We are a binary consciousness. Perhaps the most striking outcome of psychoanalysis is the formalization of this fact in the notion of the distinction between the conscious and the unconscious. Whether we follow orthodox Freudian readings of the unconscious as the repressed remainder of all…

Leaving New York

I live in a house on the beach. My closest neighbor is half a mile away. I am 46. My 40th birthday was the last eventful birthday—eventful because there were people, because my husband was there. This house on the beach was our summer home, then.