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NBN Episodes hosted by Anna:
August 20, 2024
At War with the Obvious
What does Donald Moss have against common sense, Captain Obvious, sincerity, and everything duh!? At War with the Obvious: Disruptive Thinking in Psyc…
April 3, 2018
Freud's Jaw and Other Lost Objects
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 1…
March 14, 2018
What is Sex?
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…
August 31, 2017
Transgender Psychoanalysis
Freudian theory laid the foundation for a felicitous engagement of psychoanalysis with transgender experience. Building on the work of sexologists, Fr…
August 13, 2017
Nietzsche and the Clinic
While I was in college, undergrads reeking of stale coffee and cigarettes paraded on gothic quads with flannel armor, black-rimmed glasses, messenger …
July 20, 2017
A Clinical Introduction to Freud
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…
March 21, 2017
The Psycho Records
Reading Laurence Rickels' The Psycho Records (Wallflower Press, 2016) gave me the urge to ask random strangers questions like: Are you haunted by Alfr…
March 14, 2016
Lacanian Affects
Affect is a weighty and consequential problem in psychoanalysis. People enter treatment hoping for relief from symptoms and their attendant unbearable…
December 9, 2015
When Theories Touch
There are theorists who seem to strive for integration and those who insist on fundamental differences, incompatibilities, and unbridgeable gulfs. Som…
November 3, 2015
Strictly Bipolar
To those unfamiliar with psychodiagnostics, Bipolar 3.5 might sound like the latest Apple software. To psychoanalyst Darian Leader it is indicative of…
August 18, 2015
What About Me?
Feeling exhausted, hopeless, and anxious? You might be suffering from symptoms of neoliberalism, according toPaul Verhaeghe. In What About Me?: The St…
August 7, 2015
Fashion and Psychoanalysis
Alison Bancroft has written a book with a refreshingly straightforward title: Fashion and Psychoanalysis: Styling the Self (I. B. Tauris, 2012). One i…
July 26, 2015
Warped Mourning
Theoretical and historical accounts of postcatastrophic societies often discuss melancholia and trauma at length but leave processes of mourning under…
June 20, 2015
Lacan on Madness
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…
March 2, 2015
A World Without Jews
Alon Confino's A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide (Yale University Press, 2014) begins with a vivid and devastati…
January 13, 2015
Against Understanding
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 …
December 19, 2014
Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran
In Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran (MIT Press, 2012) -- part memoir, part elegy, and part collection of clinical vignettes -- Gohar Homayounpour takes …
November 17, 2014
Against Understanding
What can possibly be wrong with the process of understanding in psychoanalytic treatment? Everything, according to Bruce Fink. In Against Understandin…
October 6, 2014
A German Generation
Germans belonging to the generation born at the turn of the twentieth century endured staggering losses, many of which became difficult to mourn or ev…
August 17, 2014
An Ordinary Marriage
Katherine Pickering Antonova's An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia (Oxford University Press, 2012) investigates th…