-
The Burden of the Ordinary
... either: he, too, was only an echo of an apparition first conjured up by a bedtime tale. In his classic essay on “The Sandman” and the uncanny, Freud characterizes that curious category as “in some...
-
Lo Countries
... to test her aeronautical engineering. She spends hours deep in imaginary sessions with Freud and has heart-to-hearts with a hallucinated Hitler, with whom she shares a birthday and like whom, she...
-
Star Struck
... democracy” with a Vox explainer from 2016. Even were she not quite to begin with Saint Paul’s “strength in weakness,” Oyler might at least have discussed Freud’s concept of “original helplessness...
-
-
Lady Lazarus
... generosity not despite but because of the limits of our understanding. “For Freud,” Rose reminds us, “the utterance can only ever be partial, scarred as it is by the division between conscious and...
-
Mirror, Mirror
... this psychological mechanism. For Sigmund Freud, projection is not merely seeing aspects of yourself in others. Instead, it is disowning unconscious traits that you cannot accept in yourself and...
-
Rand Illusion
... parents’ marriage, both of which, as the surviving child, she must have internalized the blame for. (One wishes she’d run into a Freud tour.) Even her borrowed apartment is death-haunted: it belongs to...
-
Hannah Zeavin to write an "alternative history of psychoanalysis"
... which is part of Vintage and Penguin UK, has signed Hannah Zeavin to write an “alternative history of psychoanalysis ” titled All Freud...
-
Atlantic Books acquires Namwali Serpell’s next two titles; The National Book Awards revokes Drew Barrymore’s invitation to host
... Abby Kluchin talk with Benjamin Wurgaft about puns, dad jokes, and Freud’s unfunny Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious. Wurgaft recently wrote
-
True Grift
... drive, though The Guest—unlike Freud’s theory—offers no origin story for her impulsiveness. Like any good gothic plot, Cline’s novel rivets as it follows Alex into progressively fatal encounters. But...
-
Where Egos Dare
... Newton, alongside his fourth wife, Jane Pearce, sought to braid Marx and Freud and spark a revolution in and through the consulting room. Communist movements, they felt, had failed precisely because...
-
The Story Reteller
... transmitted by flies, causing them to drop like the same. Possibly this one wanted to “die its own death,” as Freud said of the organism’s wish. One answer to my question relies on a form of projection...
