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On Kindness — Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor
On Kindness seeks to answer why “It is now generally assumed that people are basically selfish and that fellow feeling is either a weakness or a luxury or a more sophisticated form of selfishness.”...
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“It Comes Straight from Freud”— Tom McCarthy Talks about His Novel C
The National Post profiles Tom McCarthy about his new novel C. Here are a few choice lines from McCarthy– “I think the historical thing is a red herring. I don’t see C as a historical novel. I see it...
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See the Trailer for A Dangerous Method: David Cronenberg Does Freud and Jung
Tagged: Carl Jung, David Cronenberg, Film, Freud
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Kate Beaton Explains Psychoanalysis at Hark! A Vagrant
Kate Beaton’s take on psychoanalysis. From Hark! A Vagrant. Tagged: Charles Brenner, Comics, Freud, Hark A Vagrant, Kate Beaton, Psychoanalysis
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Slavoj Žižek Uses Norman Bates’s House in Psycho to Illustrate Id, Ego, and...
Tagged: Ego, Freud, Hitchcock, Id, Norman Bates, Psyche, Psycho, Slavoj Žižek, Superego
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Siri Hustvedt’s Living, Thinking, Looking (Book Acquired, 5.15.2012)
The whole point of these books acquired posts is to try to document interesting stuff that comes in before it winds up in my pile for months (to put things in perspective, I got a reader copy of Adam...
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“I Want a Third Pill”— Slavoj Žižek on The Matrix, Fantasy, Sexuality, and...
Tagged: Fantasy, Freud, libido, Sexuality, Slavoj Žižek, The Matrix, Video Games
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A Riff-Report on Elisabeth Sheffield’s Fort Da: A Report
First steps in my Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and the exponentially more crushing and debilitating fear it would produce each step I took outside of my apartment,...
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Please Unplease Me: A Review of Laura Frost’s The Problem With Pleasure
First, I want to get a bad joke out of the way: it seems cruelly apt to review a scholarly text titled The Problem With Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents (Columbia UP 2013), especially one, while...
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Every animal, after coition, is sad.
From Joseph T. Shipley’s The Origin of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots. I’ve found the book indispensable for years now—its discursiveness is a lunatic joy to get lost...
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Omelette à la Alma | Phantom Thread riff
Rambling Preamble Phantom Thread (2017) is the eighth feature film by writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson. I have been a fan of Anderson’s work since I saw Boogie Nights (1997) in my freshman year...
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