According to the rather incomprehensible French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Jacques Lacan, what we desire is the desire of the Other.

Explaining what he meant by this quote, Lacan said “The necessary and sufficient reason for the repetitive insistence of these desires in the transference and their permanent remembrance in a signifier that repression has appropriated – that is, in which the repressed returns – is found if one accepts the idea that in these determinations the desire for recognition dominates the desire that is to be recognised, preserving it as such until it is recognized.”

Some people hate to ask for help, while others love to ask for help.

This comic was inspired by a wonderful article by Karen Rinaldi where she describes her love of surfing, despite not being any good at it.

Even though Rinaldi surfs eight months a year, “I fall and flail. I get hit on the head by my own board. I run out of breath when held down by a four-foot wave.”

Communication is difficult and we usually want to blame the other person when it goes wrong.

The cats hope you enjoy their opinions, musing, and advice through this coming year.