These ponderings attempt to let themselves be appropriated by the event. (Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis), Martin Heidegger, 1936–38/1989)
Sunday, September 10, 2023
9/23/23 (息壤 6-4) (mass killing)
Surplus-Enjoyment (Lacan)
https://nosubject.com/Surplus-Enjoyment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jouissance
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/surplusenjoyment-9781350226265/
https://youtu.be/DUQtcB6Hqhc?si=jeDFVWqMHYyTp-R0
https://problemi.si/issues/p2017-1/01problemi_international_2017_1_zizek.pdf
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783839410578-014/html
Saturday, September 9, 2023
John Shotter (d 2016) (SP 2023) (自體的心理學) (Interobjectivity)
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/dec/29/john-shotter-obituary
https://www.taosinstitute.net/about-us/people/in-memoriam/john-shotter
https://ijcp.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/biling-english-7.pdf
我最驚訝的是,他 2012 年的那個 Chapter,
Understanding the Self and Others: Explorations in Intersubjectivity and Interobjectivity, Gordon Sammut (ed.), Paul Daanen (ed.), Fathali M. Moghaddam (ed.), Routledge, 2012
Chapter 3. From inter-subjectivity, via inter-objectivity, to intra-objectivity: from a determinate world of separate things to an indeterminate world of inseparable flowing processes (JOHN SHOTTER)
Shotter 引述 Karen Barad,你要理解,Agential Realism 的 Agential ,指的是「物」,不是人,
See also
Interobjectivity: Representations and artefacts in cultural psychology (2010)
Existential psychotherapy and the therapeutics of activism (EJPC, 2018)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13642537.2018.1459766
This paper considers the socio-political perspectives of Sartre, de Beauvoir and Fanon and their relationship to existential psychotherapy practice. It argues that their existential analyses of oppression must play a greater part in informing existential psychotherapeutic practice and pedagogy. In this current neo-liberal political age, in which therapy is increasingly being utilised as a form of psychological coercion and mystification, an understanding of the structures and systems of alienation and oppression that construct experience must translate to a broadening therapeutic concern beyond individual to social change. The author suggests that engaging with a politics of alienation and actively responding to the oppressive social conditions which generate distress and marginalisation should be intrinsic to existential psychotherapy practitioners and their representing institutions.
Psychoanalytic perspectives on paraphilias and perversions (EJPC, 2018)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13642537.2018.1459768
Since Freud’s exposition of the nature of perversion in his seminal work, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality there has been a multitude of rich and varied explorations of human sexual fantasies and behaviours that are considered as perversions within the psychoanalytic literature. However, with more recent societal shifts towards the acceptance of sexual orientations and practices which would previously been categorized as deviant, perversion has become a pejorative term seen as stigmatizing and debasing those whose sexual preferences do not conform to the traditional norm. In this paper I argue that certain psychoanalytic concepts of perversion retain utility in how we might think about and help individuals whose sexual desires and practices cause distress to themselves and/or others, particularly in the realm of intimate relationships. Historical and contemporary theories about the nature and origins of perverse fantasies and behaviour are presented and explored, focusing on how perversion may be conceptualized as a defence against early anxieties and disturbances in the mother–infant relationship. Such ideas inform a psychoanalytic approach to the treatment of perversions, particularly in consideration of transference and countertransference dynamics. The ideas in this paper are based on my work at the Portman Clinic in London, UK.
Psychological therapy in prisons: Professionals’ perceptions (EJPC, 2018)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13642537.2018.1495243
This study explored professionals’ perceptions of providing psychological therapy in prisons. Eight professionals, affiliated with counselling as well as counselling, clinical and forensic psychology, were interviewed. A social constructionist paradigm was used to understand how social and discursive practices shaped professionals’ accounts, allowing for critical engagement with taken-for-granted practices. Participants’ accounts were analysed using a social constructionist informed thematic analysis. Four themes were constructed: (a) performing therapy, (b) humanising the client, (c) frames inside frames and (d) a challenging but rewarding experience. The findings of this investigation indicated that therapy provision was interwoven with the socio-political ideals governing prison, which created a conflict between therapeutic values and penal values. This conflict has important implications for establishing and maintaining ethical and deontological practices in prison, particularly surrounding the dynamics power. The study indicated it is important for professionals to monitor and manage potential stigma and discrimination within therapy or service delivery. The results also found that working in prisons is a complex experience, which requires careful consideration for enhancing professional development for the prison therapist.
Looking like a foreigner: Foreignness, conformity and compliance in psychoanalysis (EJPC, 2020)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13642537.2020.1766530
This paper suggests that to approach another person confident that we are in possession of ‘universally applicable’ concepts and ideas is to begin in the wrong place both with that person and our ideas. It is to begin as someone who is well armed, well trained and perhaps too focused on succeeding by finding what she is looking for. Looking carefully at the particular, looking like a foreigner who has never seen what is before her is contrasted with looking like someone who is concerned with conquest and domination. In particular, this paper takes a sceptical view of the claim or assumption that psychoanalysis is ‘universally applicable’ and that a training in psychoanalysis prepares a practitioner to engage thoughtfully and honestly with race and culture. It argues that although psychoanalysis tends to treat race and culture as if they are marginal and optional, in its theorising, its practice and history psychoanalysis betrays the fact that race, culture and the treatment of what is regarded as foreign are central and fundamental to it.
The lack of failure reports in published psychotherapy case studies: Implications for dis-‘illusioning’ of research and practice (EJPC, 2021)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13642537.2021.1923051
Analysis of single cases represents an essential strategy for developing our understanding of paradoxical outcome and illusory mental health. Based on findings from both practice-based and randomized controlled outcome studies, 35-40% of clients fail to improve over the course of psychotherapy.We examined the prevalence of failure cases in the Single Case Archive, a database that includes more than 3000 psychotherapy case studies from a variety of ISI-ranked journals. We found that only 4% of these studies describe any form of failure in treatment. Thematic analysis of the titles and abstracts of failure case studies revealed that the majority did not focus on investigating the nature or meaning of failure but were primarily interested in other theoretical and practical matters. We propose a number of explanations for this apparent publication bias in case study research and discuss implications for further research.
九九重陽 (2023)
Friday, September 8, 2023
Back to Basics; into the Future (SEA) (11/12 Nov, 2023)
ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action 6.23
Francesc Tosquelles (1912-1994) (SP 2023) (自體的心理學)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Tosquelles
Francesc Tosquelles (Reus, August 22, 1912 – Granges-sur-Lot, September 25, 1994), also known as François Tosquelles due to having lived in France for many years, was a Catalan psychiatrist.[1] During the Spanish Civil War, he fought on the Republican side for the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification.[2] During World War II, he was the doctor at the psychiatric hospital of Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole, Lozère, France. He is credited as one of the creators of institutional psychotherapy, an influential movement in the second half of the 20th century. His 1948 doctoral thesis for the University of Paris was titled 'The Psychopathology of Lived Experience' - "Part gestalt psychology, part phenomenology, part neurobiology, part psychoanalysis, it revived the Hippocratic notion of the medic–philosopher – iatros philosophos." After experiencing military occupations throughout his lifetime (German in France, Spanish in Catalonia, Francoist in Spain, and Stalinist in the Spanish communist parties), he concluded that "occupation" was not simply a historical reality but created a psychic structure in the individual, and that to achieve freedom, one must proceed by "disoccupation".
The Martinican doctor and later revolutionary activist Frantz Fanon was one of his students, who then used his techniques to some degree of success while living in Blida, Algeria, in the mid-1950s.
After experiencing military occupations throughout his lifetime (German in France, Spanish in Catalonia, Francoist in Spain, and Stalinist in the Spanish communist parties), he concluded that "occupation" was not simply a historical reality but created a psychic structure in the individual, and that to achieve freedom, one must proceed by "disoccupation".
Breakups with problem patients require communication, documentation
Franz Alexander (1891-1964) (SP 2023) (自體的心理學)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Alexander
The corrective emotional experience
In the forties ... Franz Alexander, following the lead of Sandor Ferenczi, proposed ... the form of a "corrective emotional experience", which enjoyed an enormous vogue.[10]
Alexander stated:[11]
The patient, in order to be helped, must undergo a corrective emotional experience suitable to repair the traumatic influence of previous experiences. It is of secondary importance whether this corrective experience takes place during treatment in the transference relationship, or parallel with the treatment in the daily life of the patient.
The concept provoked much controversy, provoking opposition from figures as disparate as Kurt R. Eissler, Edward Glover, and Jacques Lacan, who later said 'I did not hesitate to attack it myself in the most categorical way ... at the 1950 Congress of Psychiatry, but, it is the construction of a man of great talent'.[12]
By the sixties, Alexander's conception was in retreat, and at the close of the following decade an analyst could ask rhetorically 'Who talks about Franz Alexander today — except those who want to put down his "corrective emotional experience" or to deny, as the Kohutians are at constant pains to do, that they are offering more of the same?'.[13] Ongoing developments in object relations theoryand the rise of self psychology would however lead to a revival of interest in the idea.
It was championed again by Moberly (1985). In the latter's view, corrective emotional experience represents essentially what is therapeutic in analysis'.[14] Even those with continuing reservations about the idea conceded that 'when Alexander was writing ... it was pertinent for him to be drawing attention to the therapeutic value of the emotional experience of patients in analysis'.[15]
In the twenty-first century, the term has passed into common psychodynamic parlance. Thus notions of testing the relationship in cognitive therapy are seen as 'not dissimilar to the notion of the "corrective emotional experience" in psychodynamic therapy'; elucidation in existential therapy as opening up 'new experiences with the therapist, thus providing a corrective interpersonal experience'.[16]
驚現「雷暴哮喘」內蒙傳出核洩漏
https://www.epochtimes.com/b5/23/9/6/n14068227.htm
https://youtu.be/Uzdc7UIOoUU?si=3zGxYfPR1r3L3TFJ
See also
中國霧霾久久不散的真相:這不是普通的霧霾,而是中國禁搜的關鍵字—「核霧染」
https://buzzorange.com/citiorange/2016/12/22/the-truth-of-haze/
Mistranslation of Newton’s First Law Discovered after Nearly 300 Years
9/8/23 (星期五) (SP 2023) (自體的心理學)
Thursday, September 7, 2023
DECOLONIAL THEORY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoloniality
Distinction from related ideas
Decoloniality is often conflated with postcolonialism, decolonization, and postmodernism. However, decolonial theorists draw clear distinctions.
Postcolonialism
Postcolonialism is often mainstreamed into general oppositional practices by "people of color", "Third World intellectuals", or ethnic groups.[23]: 87 Decoloniality—as both an analytic and a programmatic approach—is said to move "away and beyond the post-colonial" because "post-colonialism criticism and theory is a project of scholarly transformation within the academy".[22]: 452
This final point is debatable, as some postcolonial scholars consider postcolonial criticism and theory to be both an analytic (a scholarly, theoretical, and epistemic) project and a programmatic (a practical, political) stance.[39]: 8 This disagreement is an example of the ambiguity—"sometimes dangerous, sometimes confusing, and generally limited and unconsciously employed"—of the term "postcolonialism," which has been applied to analysis of colonial expansion and decolonization, in contexts such as Algeria, the 19th-century United States, and 19th-century Brazil.[40]: 93-94
Decolonial scholars consider the colonization of the Americas a precondition for postcolonial analysis. The seminal text of postcolonial studies, Orientalism by Edward Said, describes the nineteenth-century European invention of the Orient as a geographic region considered racially and culturally distinct from, and inferior to, Europe. However, without the European invention of the Americas in the sixteenth century, sometimes referred to as Occidentalism, the later invention of the Orient would have been impossible.[12]: 56 This means that postcolonialism becomes problematic when applied to post-nineteenth-century Latin America.[40]: 94
“On a Reform in its Hole" (Lacan, 2015)
https://www.degruyter.com/database/IBZ/entry/ibz.ibzEx_20180828_14095/html
It is also known that Lacan later distanced himself somewhat from psychiatry; in February 1969, for example, he criticised the community’s tendency to ‘segregate^] its discordant members’ in ‘ “asylum-like” places’ (Lacan, 2015, p. 16).#
# Lacan, J. (2015) On a reform in its hole’, S: Journal of the Circlefor Lacanian Ideology Critique. Translated by J. Holland, (8), pp. 14-21
Nevertheless, he also maintained contact with psychiatric institutions throughout his life; one index of this is his participation in ‘case presentations’, a practice in which a psychiatrist interviews a psychotic patient before an audience of students. In 1955-1956, during his seminar on the psychoses, he refers extensively to the presentations that he had been conducting, drawing out what could be learned from them concerning psychotic symptoms, such as neologisms, and the effects of foreclosure (Lacan, 1993b, pp. 31-3, 47-56, 59-60, 306-7). Twenty years later, he also gave a series of case presentations at the Hôpital Henri Rousselle, under the auspices of Marcel Czermak, who held an adjunct position there (Roudinesco, 1990, p. 696). Transcriptions of nine of them are available in French in electronic form (Valas, n.d.); at least two have been translated into English (Lacan, 1993a, 1998).
Lacanian Psychoanalysis: A Clinical Casebook, by Danièle Brillaud, Translated by John Hollan, Routledge, 2020, Translator’s preface, pp. ix-x
殊勝何在 (SP 2023) (自體的心理學)
Lacan, Kris and the Psychoanalytic Legacy: The Brain Eater
https://www.karnacbooks.com/product/lacan-kris-and-the-psychoanalytic-legacy-the-brain-eater/97330/
9/7/23 (星期四)
Wednesday, September 6, 2023
If China’s Xi Jinping were to die: Options for the post-CCP world
什麼是共匪的認知戰
系統的邊緣 (SP 2023) (自體的心理學)
南方的知識論 Epistemologies of the South (Decolonial therapy) (SP 2023) (自體的心理學)
Tuesday, September 5, 2023
喜劇比悲劇深刻 (SP 2023) (自體的心理學)
因為喜劇讓這個世界,下沉的速度變快,比如說,你要理解,龍舌蘭會讓你下沉,下沉的意思是說,浮不起來,悲劇像是看著另一個人下沉,喜劇則是跟著一起下沉,意思是說,喜劇比悲劇,更有下沉的誠意,比如說,Martin Lawrence 適合演喜劇,尤其是 Blue Streak (1999),National Security (2003),到了 Mindcage (2022),他的第一部非喜劇,一切就壞了,比如說,豬哥亮一生皆喜劇,所以下沉一生,十分精采,你要理解,我是十分推崇豬哥亮的,我一直認為,他是拯救中國的救星,意思是說,如果他是中共總書記和黨主席和軍委主席,中國就得救了,
Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy, ed. by Patricia Gherovici, Manya Steinkoler, Cambridge University Press, 2016
Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy, by Todd McGowan, Northwestern University Press, 2017
Zizek's Jokes: (Did you hear the one about Hegel and negation?) by Slavoj Zizek, The MIT Press, 2018
Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious (Freud, SE, Vol VIII, 1905)
Freedom – the abyssal ground of Freudian psychoanalysis (Johan Eriksson, 2017) (SP 2023) (自體的心理學)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01062301.2017.1362537?journalCode=rspr20
Freedom is an a priori condition for the way in which Freudian psychoanalysis thematizes the development, the structure and the dynamics of our psychic life; the human psyche is essentially constituted by freedom. What this really means is that psychoanalysis lacks a foundation or ground – both as a psychological science and as a kind of clinical treatment. Freedom is the abyssal ground of psychoanalysis.
自由是一個深淵,意思是說,自體的心理學的自體,面對的是一個深淵,
Robert Beshara (SP 2023) (自體的心理學)
https://youtu.be/8tIGD6I3MVU?si=iGXHtHq9xrRZ6Bda
Robert Beshara
The Other Side of Abyssal Psychoanalysis
Summary:
This essay offers a critique of Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis, which is read not only as a modern field but also as a colonial project. The attempt is not to reject psychoanalysis altogether, for it contains within itself the potential for its own liberation. Rather, the aim of the critique is expanding psychoanalysis beyond its comfort zone within modern epistemology by way of the decolonial theorizing of Boaventura de Sousa Santos.
https://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/articles/the-other-side-of-abyssal-psychoanalysis/
Monday, September 4, 2023
Aníbal Quijano (1930-2018) (Decolonial therapy)
Aníbal Quijano (17 November 1930 – 31 May 2018) was a Peruvian sociologist and humanist thinker, known for having developed the concepts of "coloniality of power" and "coloniality of knowledge".[1] His body of work has been influential in the fields of decolonial studies and critical theory.
vincularidad/relationality (Decolonial therapy) (RP)
Relationality also doesn’t mean simply to include other practices and concepts into our own. Its meaning references what some Andean Indigenous thinkers, including Nina Pacari, Fernando Huanacuni Mamani, and Félix Patzi Paco, refer to as vincularidad. Vincularidad is the awareness of the integral relation and interdependence amongst all living organisms (in which humans are only a part) with territory or land and the cosmos. It is a relation and interdependence in search of balance and harmony of life in the planet. As such, and as we propose in this book and se- ries, vincularidad/relationality unsettles the singular authoritativeness and universal character typically assumed and portrayed in academic thought. Relationality/vincularidad seeks connections and correlations.
(On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis, by Walter D. Mignolo, Catherine E. Wals, Duke University Press, 2018, pp. 1-2)
方臉對比中共和蘇聯的歷史進程
俄羅斯與委內瑞拉[1]即是典型的「石油詛咒」例子,這兩個國家長期以石油賺取大量外匯,以此提昇國內經濟成長,但除了開採業外,其他領域的發展都停滯不前,這種國家常有以下特徵:天然資源豐富、經濟自由度低、清廉程度低、寡頭政治、資源開採以外的行業發展程度低、為爭奪開採權政治腐敗、土地開發過度等等。
https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E8%B3%87%E6%BA%90%E8%A9%9B%E5%92%92
方臉說,中共殘局,不似晚清,似解體前蘇聯,
蘇共解體後,俄國命途多舛,短暫民主,隨即沙皇復辟迄今,
俄國有資源詛咒續命,中共沒有,因此包子必將攻台,但也必將因此下台,包子被推翻之後,中共會像蘇聯一樣,歷經數獨裁者,才終於不得不妥協,開始政治民主改革,
方臉說,他知道結果,但不知道上述確切時程,他希望中國人民主意識普遍覺醒,以致中國,「少走一點彎路」,中國人,少一點無謂犧牲,
我想中蘇對比,最大問題出在,中共迄今沒有 Gorbachev,以後恐怕也不會有,意思是說,由中共高層,啟動政治改革,希望渺茫,所以比照,中國歷史改朝換代玩法,只好革命,
但是革命後果,往往是進入下一個輪迴,意思是說,革命並不意謂人民覺醒,只是說明,人民「忍無可忍,遂不再忍」,
這個,人民「註定不會覺醒」,符合中共洗腦愚民的惡意,那就是,共匪體量大到不能倒,是「無可取代」的,中國人民從來都「不是人」,只是永恆的蒙昧的畜牲,
enactment 就是 performance (SP 2023) (自體的心理學) (RP)
Of poetry and poses
And each man knows hell be alone
When the sacred ginmill closes
And so well drink the final glass
Each to his joy and sorrow
And hope the numbing drink will last
Til opening tomorrow
And when we stumble back again
Like paralytic dancers
Each knows the question he must ask
And each man knows the answer
And so well drink the final drink
That cuts the brain in sections
Where answers do not signify
And there arent any questions
I broke my heart the other day
It will mend again tomorrow
If Id been drunk when I was born
Id be ignorant of sorrow
And so well drink the final toast
That never can be spoken:
Heres to the heart that is wise enough
To know when its better off broken
白色恐怖就是惡世的白噪音 (SP 2023) (自體的心理學)
anxia corda (Julie Reshe) (SP 2023) (自體的心理學)
Sunday, September 3, 2023
What Should Clinicians Know About Palliative Psychopharmacology?
How Can We Use AI To Address Global Challenges Like Climate Change?
6 Roadblocks Stopping Web3 And The Metaverse Becoming A Reality
劉夢熊
https://youtu.be/vtN9CyhuFPE?si=NizdchhIsw3HwpkZ
https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/world/breakingnews/4405249
劉夢熊說,即日立法,中共各級官員,財產申報,只要繳回,不明財產,即可特赦,上繳戶頭,包子瑞銀戶頭 X896489648964,意思是說,包子滅共,勞苦功高,又自願連任,幫大家存錢,請大家謝主隆恩,從此不做畜牲,好好做人,李小鵬小琳聞訊,繳回零頭,二萬億美金,獲最佳做人金牌獎,
劉夢熊說,他和習近平一起,一九七三年,帶領九千萬共產黨員,游過大西洋,投奔自由,香港上岸,去「十三飛」姐朵蓮娜,的茶餐廳飲茶,習近平吃了十三個包子,史稱「十三包」,
9/3/23 (星期日)
郭台銘學習包子思想很用功
Saturday, September 2, 2023
餘生住在家樂福 (SP 2023) (自體的心理學)
2015 - 2023 (SP 2023) (自體的心理學)
how to see (SP 2023) (自體的心理學)
9/2/23 (星期六)
趙家人迫害中國人民是一个「波浪式发展、曲折式前进」的过程
http://www.qstheory.cn/qshyjx/2023-08/23/c_1129818020.htm
波浪式发展、曲折式前进,是描述趙家人,脫褲打炮的標準動作,其中曲折二字,饒有深意,意思是說,趙家人找不到洞,常常會插錯,以致插進歷史的死胡同,
蒸汽朋克 (Steampunk)
黄浦江封:中国的内部脱钩已经开始
Friday, September 1, 2023
幻謊(pathological lying, pseudologia fantastica, mythomania)
The Problems With China’s Economy Start and End at the Top
我家住在爛尾樓
9/1/23 (星期五)
Hellscape
1 in 3 Adults Knows Someone Who May Be Struggling With Addiction, APA Poll Finds
Thursday, August 31, 2023
夜宿龍華
What just happened: Storm clouds loom for China’s economy
Night of the Living Dead (1990)
https://youtu.be/layYEEb6OkM?feature=shared
It is the only "official" remake of the 1968 film, with other "unofficial" remakes coming out after, as a result of the source material's lack of copyright ownership (resulting in being in the public domain).
Survival of the Dead (2009)
https://youtu.be/03pu_GcKL4c?si=e9dL8BIOKNcWtPiP
The prologue follows the actions of National Guard Sergeant "Nicotine" Crockett, who, along with Kenny, Francisco and Tomboy, desert their posts and rob the protagonists of the previous film. Meanwhile, off the coast of Delaware lies Plum Island, home to two feuding Irish families: the O'Flynns and the Muldoons. The former family, led by Patrick O'Flynn, round up a posse to kill the undead on the island. O'Flynn learns that the Muldoons are keeping their undead loved ones safe until a cure is found. Tensions come to a head when O'Flynn and his posse arrive at the Muldoon house to dispatch their undead children, only to engage in a brief gunfight that leaves a woman dead as well. Unable to put the children down himself, Patrick surrenders his weapons when the Muldoon posse arrives. Seamus Muldoon contemplates killing Patrick until Patrick's daughter Janet suggests he be exiled from the island instead.
Boy joins the National Guardsmen and through him they learn of Plum Island. They watch a video made by Patrick and follow the instructions in it that leads them to a nearby dock. At the dock, O'Flynn and his men attempt to rob the Guardsmen, which results in a shootout. Francisco steals a ferry boat and bites off the finger of an attacking zombie in the process. All of the O'Flynns but Patrick are killed by zombies, and he boards the ferry. During the trip to the island, Patrick says that he sent other people to Plum Island to anger the Muldoons.
When the group reach the island they discover that the Muldoons have chained up their zombies in imitations of their previous lives. They also see that the people sent to the island by Patrick have been killed. Patrick sees his daughter Janet ride by on a horse, apparently dead and turned into a zombie. Patrick attempts to gather allies when two Muldoons attack them, shooting Crockett and Kenny. The latter dies from his wounds, and is shot in the head by Patrick to prevent reanimation. Francisco realizes that he infected himself when he bit off the zombie's finger, and asks Tomboy to shoot him to keep him from turning. Tomboy shoots him and is then captured by Muldoon.
Patrick finds out that the daughter he saw earlier was actually Janet's twin sister Jane. Janet, still alive, joins Patrick and the Guardsmen in their attack on the Muldoons. A standoff occurs at the bridge that separates the two families' land, and the O'Flynn group is captured; Boy and Janet escape. Muldoon reveals his attempts to persuade the zombies to eat something other than human flesh, and uses Jane as a test case. He tries to persuade the dead woman to bite her horse, but instead she attacks and bites her sister Janet. A melee ensues and captured zombies are released, consuming people from both sides. Muldoon and O'Flynn call a truce that is almost immediately broken when Muldoon shoots O'Flynn, who pulls a hidden gun and kills Muldoon.
Crockett and his group attempt to leave the island. Janet witnesses her sister bite the horse and rushes to tell Crockett's group the news, but before doing so she is shot in the head by Patrick, who wanted to prevent his daughter turning before succumbing to his own wounds. Crockett, Boy, and Tomboy board the ferry and escape the island while the zombies are eating the horse. Crockett muses about the purpose of war as the reanimated O'Flynn and Muldoon stagger toward each other, guns unloaded, and attempt to shoot and kill each other again.