Thode's psychopathology seminar: dentition-charts in the margins

texture · 7 Nov YDAU

• When: 7 November YDAU, the last P.M. class period
• What: A senior, Schacht sits the midterm of prorector Mary Esther Thode's "personal-is-the-political-is-the-psychopathological" seminar — which he has taken all three times it's been offered, finding the batty double-bind quandaries weirdly, almost intuitively easy — among the most fascinating experiences of his intellectual life outside the dentist's chair. He is looping the d in "mail fraud" on the kleptomaniac-agoraphobe item when Troeltsch's broadcast comes over the intercom reporting his own team's triumph; he passes the surplus time sketching in the margins rather than show Thode up.