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Adrian Tomine’s graphic memoir to become an animated TV series
...’s Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend, Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth, Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams, Judith Butler’s Gender...
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Cool Runnings
...’s little sister and Freud’s wife, Piers Morgan’s diary as well as Anne Frank’s, Diski dispenses with conventional structures for her reviews, favoring digression above almost all else. A book could be...
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Aghast Interpretation
... subliminal myth? Key’s analysis is buoyed by some boilerplate Freud that’s pretty convincing--seductive, even--including a fun reading of castration anxiety evident on late-’60s Playboy covers. But there...
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A filmmaker’s hurried writings sketch an exuberant urban modernity
... in the modern metropolis (or his editor’s tight deadlines) did not permit him to linger in a conversation or a scene. He once claimed to have interviewed Sigmund Freud, but, in his writing at...
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This Sweet Sickness
... some disrepute. “Exalted” is an admittedly strange word to use in connection with a philosophy of mind that puts as much emphasis on depths and descents as Freud’s. But it’s hard to imagine that...
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Jonathan Sadowsky’s argument against the idea that depression is a uniquely Western affliction
... Freud was duly pronounced dead, yet again. Who needed to hear about unconscious conflicts, about “anger turned inward,” now that we could simply swallow our pills? This is the familiar arc that...
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No Paint, No Glory
... Freud, is both the story of a life and an argument for her own legacy. To be known as Freud’s companion might be fine, for a time; to be canonized as such would be unbearable. His death in 2011, and...
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Charles Yu wins National Book Award for Interior Chinatown; Former staff respond to abrupt layoffs at Poets House
...) matching in the new year. In the London Review of Books, Jacqueline Rose has a bravura essay on Freud and his daughter, who...
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Bookforum talks with Stephanie LaCava
... reader’s, we call that an “unreliable narrator,” but in The Superrationals, that liminal space is generative. How did you conceive of Mathilde’s self-illusion? There are nods to Freud’s “The Uncanny...
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Carolyn Reidy to posthumously receive Literarian Award; Janet Malcolm writes about her libel suit and New Yorker style
... Moussaieff Masson, the subject of a Malcolm article that eventually became the book In the Freud Archives. Masson sued for libel and claimed that Malcolm made up quotations. After the first trial ended in...
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“An Exercise in Triage”
... border, although physically at the extremities of the polity, can be at the heart of nationalist discourse about the meaning of the nation.” Greg Grandin, channeling Freud, writes that America...
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“The life of the artist was a life of action”
... that has now, to our peril, been replaced by a terrifying ahistoricism and collective amnesia. American culture had not yet turned inward. Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis had not triumphed over...
