As we are in the fourth week of social-distancing in Toronto in tandem with numerous other countries across the globe, we have time to reflect on what is surprisingly frightening in our current state of affairs Indeed, it would have been unimaginable for many of us a mere month ago to conceive of the issue of panic shopping for Toilet Paper and canned legumes, let alone imagine that this response would occupy a considerable amount of our social and political conversation The perplexing panic and restlessness over toilet paper, when considered as a response to the larger political failure, seem to be a creative act The mania over toilet paper can be understood as a crude solution of the overwhelmed and fragmented subject in the absence of a symbolic authority The acts of the suspicious seem to generate an enclosed space where one can imagine a future in which one finds a sense of control and safety The act of panic shopping, among other paranoid acts, is the way individuals create a sense of time and space In the psychoanalytic story, it is an inventive way of turning passive into active (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)

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卫生纸丢失与找回的简要思考

由于我们正处于多伦多与全球许多其他国家保持社交距离的第四周，因此我们有时间反思我们目前的状况令人惊讶的可怕之处确实，这对我们许多人来说是无法想象的仅仅一个月前，想到了抢购厕纸和豆类罐头的恐慌性购物问题，更不用说想象这种反应会占据我们社会和政治对话的相当大一部分 对厕纸的令人困惑的恐慌和不安，当被视为一种反应时到更大的政治失败，似乎是一种创造性的行为 对卫生纸的狂热可以理解为在缺乏象征权威的情况下对不堪重负和支离破碎的主体的粗略解决 可疑的行为似乎产生了一个封闭的空间，人们可以在其中想象未来一个人找到一种控制感和安全感恐慌购物的行为，在其他偏执行为中，是个人创造时间和空间感的方式在精神分析故事中，它是一种变被动为主动的创造性方式（PsycInfo数据库记录（PsycInfo Database Record） c) 2020 APA，保留所有权利）版权所有）版权所有）