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About Tracy Morgan
Tracy D. Morgan: Psychoanalyst, LCSW-R, M.Phil., Editor, New Books in Psychoanalysis.
NBN Episodes hosted by Tracy:
October 6, 2024
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living
Sandra Buechler joins hosts Christopher Bandini and Tracy Morgan to discuss her latest book, Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living: Addressi…
August 13, 2024
Creativity and the Erotic Dimensions of the Analytic Field
Today I talked to Dianne Elise about her book Creativity and the Erotic Dimensions of the Analytic Field (Routledge, 2019). …
June 3, 2023
The Queerness of Childhood
In this interview, Anna Fishzon, co editor with Emma Lieber on The Queerness of Childhood: Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass (Palgrave M…
January 11, 2023
Playing at Work
Vincenzo Bonaminio, the Italian psychoanalyst and ambassador to the Winnicottian tradition offers us a clinical feast in his new publication, Playing …
August 15, 2022
Circumcision on the Couch
It is not terribly controversial to say that castration fear is one of the key conceptual engines driving the psychoanalytic project overall. Whether…
October 12, 2021
The Talking Cure
Gillian Straker’s name has long been on my radar, particularly for the ways in which she has used psychoanalytic thought to contend with the vicissitu…
June 8, 2021
White Privilege
Neil Altman’s White Privilege: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (Routledge, 2020) is a slip (80 pages including references and the index) of a book that re…
March 31, 2021
The Writing Cure
In the hills north of Rome about a month ago I met a woman, a writer, so blown away by her Dottoressa, her psychoanalyst, that she announced to the su…
March 16, 2021
Internal Racism
What makes racist feelings and ideas objectionable? In his book Internal Racism: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Race and Difference (Red Globe, 2011), M…
February 3, 2021
Trauma and Race
In his book, Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity (Baylor UP, 2016), Sheldon George treats an old idea--that African …
May 22, 2020
Fear of Breakdown
In his classic essay on the fear of breakdown, Donald Winnicott famously conveys to a patient that the disaster powerfully feared has, in fact, alread…
December 16, 2019
On Psychoanalysis and Violence
Gun violence must be what drive defusion looks like; with every shot fired, with every life stilled by rounds of ammo, we are summoned to address the …
November 11, 2019
Sex Versus Survival
John Launer's Sex Versus Survival: The Life and Ideas of Sabina Spielrein (Overlook Duckworth Press, 2014) manages to supplant (and given the power of…
October 31, 2019
Death and Mastery
Benjamin Fong’s Death and Mastery: Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism (Columbia University Press, 2016) revitalizes two of…
July 19, 2019
Freud/Tiffany
When we imagine Anna Freud, how does she appear to us? I have a snapshot image in my mind of a woman, almost nondescript, decidedly meek, standing usu…
April 19, 2019
Death and Fallibility in the Psychoanalytic Encounter
If I could vote for my favorite new psychoanalytic book of the 21st century, Ellen Pinsky's Death and Fallibility in the Psychoanalytic Encounter: Mor…
October 10, 2018
Mothers
I left the kitchen radio on while reading Jacqueline Rose's Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018) in preparation for…
September 7, 2017
Conservative and Radical Perspectives on Psychoanalytic Knowledge
This is an interview for the pessimists among us: Worried that your career as an analyst is over? That CBT is about to enact world domination over all…
March 19, 2017
Capitalism and Desire
Todd McGowan's Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Columbia University Press, 2016) elegantly employs psychoanalytic thinking to …
November 7, 2016
On the Borderland of Madness
When it comes to the history of psychoanalysis and psychiatry in the United States, to paraphrase Luce Irigaray, one never stirs without the other. Wh…
June 2, 2016
The Enigma of Desire
This interview is really a conversation between two friends, peers, and colleagues--two women who were pleased to find each other in the psychoanalyti…
December 21, 2015
When the Sun Bursts
In his second visit with New Books in Psychoanalysis, Christopher Bollas elucidates his thinking about schizophrenia. But he also does more than that;…
October 13, 2015
Screen Relations
At New Books in Psychoanalysis, interviews are conducted using Skype. As the program is audio rather than video based, it never occurred to me to use …
April 13, 2015
The Psychoanalytic Vision
In The Psychoanalytic Vision: The Experiencing Subject, Transcendence, and the Therapeutic Process (Routledge, 2013), Frank Summers has written a whol…