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Psychoanalysis May 29, 2018

At War with the Obvious

Disruptive Thinking in Psychoanalysis

Donald Moss

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What does Donald Moss have against common sense, Captain Obvious, sincerity, and everything duh!? At War with the Obvious: Disruptive Thinking in Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2018) turns to culture and the …
Psychoanalysis April 3, 2018

Freud's Jaw and Other Lost Objects

Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer

Lana Lin

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In April 1923 Sigmund Freud detected a lesion in his mouth that turned out to be cancerous. From diagnosis to his death, he endured 33 surgeries and 10 prostheses. In …
Psychoanalysis March 14, 2018

What is Sex?

Alenka Zupancic

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Alenka Zupancic has done the unthinkable. She has managed to write a fun and exciting book about sex with only cursory mention of things naughty. What is Sex? (MIT Press …
Psychoanalysis August 31, 2017

Transgender Psychoanalysis

A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference

Patricia Gherovici

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Freudian theory laid the foundation for a felicitous engagement of psychoanalysis with transgender experience. Building on the work of sexologists, Freud not only posited a universal bisexuality, thereby implying that …
Psychoanalysis August 13, 2017

Nietzsche and the Clinic

Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Metaphysics

Jared Russell

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While I was in college, undergrads reeking of stale coffee and cigarettes paraded on gothic quads with flannel armor, black-rimmed glasses, messenger bags, and paperback copies of Ayn Rand and …
Psychoanalysis July 20, 2017

A Clinical Introduction to Freud

Techniques for Everyday Practice

Bruce Fink

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Bruce Fink joins me once again, this time to discuss his latest book, A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques For Everyday Practice (W. W. Norton & Co., 2017). What prompted …
Psychoanalysis March 21, 2017

The Psycho Records

Laurence A. Rickels

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Reading Laurence Rickels' The Psycho Records (Wallflower Press, 2016) gave me the urge to ask random strangers questions like: Are you haunted by Alfred Hitchcock's famous shower scene? How do …
Psychoanalysis March 14, 2016

Lacanian Affects

The Function of Affect in Lacan's Work, trans. Bruce Fink

Colette Soler

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Affect is a weighty and consequential problem in psychoanalysis. People enter treatment hoping for relief from symptoms and their attendant unbearable affects. While various theorists and schools offer differing approaches …
Psychoanalysis December 9, 2015

When Theories Touch

A Historical and Theoretical Integration of Psychoanalytic Thought

Steven J. Ellman

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There are theorists who seem to strive for integration and those who insist on fundamental differences, incompatibilities, and unbridgeable gulfs. Some write from an interdisciplinary position, exulting in hybridity and …
Psychoanalysis November 3, 2015

Strictly Bipolar

Darian Leader

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To those unfamiliar with psychodiagnostics, Bipolar 3.5 might sound like the latest Apple software. To psychoanalyst Darian Leader it is indicative of the relatively recent proliferation and growing elasticity of …
Psychoanalysis August 18, 2015

What About Me?

The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society

Paul Verhaeghe

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Feeling exhausted, hopeless, and anxious? You might be suffering from symptoms of neoliberalism, according toPaul Verhaeghe. In What About Me?: The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society (Scribe Publications …
Psychoanalysis August 7, 2015

Fashion and Psychoanalysis

Styling the Self

Alison Bancroft

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Alison Bancroft has written a book with a refreshingly straightforward title: Fashion and Psychoanalysis: Styling the Self (I. B. Tauris, 2012). One immediately suspects that it reflects the author's two …
Psychoanalysis July 26, 2015

Warped Mourning

Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied

Alexander Etkind

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Theoretical and historical accounts of postcatastrophic societies often discuss melancholia and trauma at length but leave processes of mourning underexplored. In Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land …
Psychoanalysis June 20, 2015

Lacan on Madness

Madness, Yes You Can't

Patricia Gherovici and Manya Seteinkoler, eds.

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Patricia Gherovici and Manya Steinkoler reminded me of something very important and unsettling: I have a brush with madness every night. Most of us do - when we dream. Or …
General History March 2, 2015

A World Without Jews

The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide

Alon Confino

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Alon Confino's A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide (Yale University Press, 2014) begins with a vivid and devastating scene in the small German town of …
Psychoanalysis January 13, 2015

Against Understanding

Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key

Bruce Fink

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Bruce Fink joins me for a second interview to discuss Volume 2 of Against Understanding: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key (Routledge, 2014). We talk about everything from desire …
Psychoanalysis December 19, 2014

Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran

Gohar Homayounpour

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In Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran (MIT Press, 2012) -- part memoir, part elegy, and part collection of clinical vignettes -- Gohar Homayounpour takes a defiant position against the Orientalizing gaze …
Psychoanalysis November 17, 2014

Against Understanding

Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key

Bruce Fink

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What can possibly be wrong with the process of understanding in psychoanalytic treatment? Everything, according to Bruce Fink. In Against Understanding. Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key …
Psychoanalysis October 6, 2014

A German Generation

An Experiential History of the Twentieth Century

Thomas Kohut

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Germans belonging to the generation born at the turn of the twentieth century endured staggering losses, many of which became difficult to mourn or even acknowledge: their parents in World …
Russian and Eurasian Studies August 17, 2014

An Ordinary Marriage

The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia

Katherine Pickering Antonova

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Katherine Pickering Antonova's An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia (Oxford University Press, 2012) investigates the Chikhachevs, members of the middling nobility in the pre-emancipation …