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http://pervegalit.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/the-rule-of-publishing-your-undergraduate-senior-thesis/

Mikhail Emelianov at Perverse Egalitarianism has a word of advice for people like me (I just finished writing mine yesterday!):

Don’t do it until you are famous philosopher and also dead. Hide it well and then let it be discovered. Publish it as the “laterst book by yours truly” - make some green.

One of the embarrassing moments during the writing process was when I accidentally referred to my “publishing” the thesis to my advisor. Obviously it was the wrong choice of words, but she quickly seized on the opportunity to point it out as a slip of the tongue (my thesis is on psychoanalysis).

That leads me to another point: transference and editing are oddly similar. The writer is like the analysand and the editor the analyst (objet petit a). Whenever the editor makes corrections to your work that are especially insightful, you have a tendency to hate them, but really the hatred is Imaginary—one necessarily misrecognizes their intention as purely spiteful rather than an analytic process of spotting the inconsistencies and errors in the analysand’s discourse. That is to say, the writer, like any analysand, overlooks the Symbolic structure of the transference and the way it engenders fake emotions like love and hate.