Benching: Keeping the Other on Hold
David Sahyoun, 29/10 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Benching Psychoanalysis Culture Relationships
In the new digital dictionary, we are learning to decode, “to bench” means keeping someone on the sidelines, like a player who is sent neither off the field nor fully into the game, but kept warmed up, available, and waiting. Benching is not the radical severing of connection seen in ghosting, nor the deliberate freezing of icing. It belongs ...
