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Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects

Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer

May 1, 2018 • by Lana Lin

Public Seminar spoke to Lana Lin, author of Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects, about the genesis of the book, psychoanalysis, and art-making. Q&A with Lana Lin Public Seminar (PS): Why did you write Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer ? Lana Lin (LL): I had been training to become ...

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In Between Her Legs

Theorizing feminine space

April 25, 2018 • by Ceilidh Webster

“There is no getting round the fact that each man and woman came out of a woman.” -- D.W. Winnicott, 1964 In her recent book Feminine Law: Freud, Speech and the Voice of Desire, psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist Jill Gentile puts forth a call to name the vagina. Through rigorous analysis ...

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The Formal Ethics of Metony#metoo

Poetics, Power, Primal Scene

April 18, 2018 • by Jamieson Webster and Kyoo Lee

Last year the journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality published a panel called "The ontology of the rape joke," organized around a performance by Vanessa Place of her piece, "Rape joke." The panel included responses from Jamieson Webster, Jeff Dolven, Gayle Salamon, Kyoo Lee, Katie Gentile, and Virginia Goldner, and ended with ...

Sexual Harassment

Seeking the pleasures of ‘consent’ under duress

February 26, 2018 • by Virginia Goldner

Last year the journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality published a panel called "The ontology of the rape joke," organized around a performance by Vanessa Place of her piece, "Rape joke." The panel included responses from Jamieson Webster, Jeff Dolven, Gayle Salamon, Kyoo Lee, Katie Gentile, and Virginia Goldner, and ended with ...

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Trump, Freud, and the Puzzle of Femininity

Our fear of the feminine might be the great riddle of democracy

December 6, 2017 • by Jill Gentile

But our president is the Greatest Repudiator. Not only has he sought to repudiate the Paris Climate Accord, UNESCO, women’s reproductive rights, and Obamacare; he has also demonstrated that he is obsessed with repudiating everything Obama. He practically revels in ignoring if not dismissing democratic values we take for granted: ...

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The Playstation Dreamworld

An excerpt from Alfie Bown’s latest book

November 16, 2017 • by Alfie Bown

Dreams are the fulfillment of a wish. Dreams are the disguised fulfillment of a wish. Dreams are the disguised fulfillment of a repressed wish. Dreams are the disguised fulfillment of a repressed, infantile wish. Even the first of these statements is already complex. For Freud, a wish is not just ...

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Adorno with Freud, Adorno Beyond Freud

Part 4

October 19, 2017 • by Chiara Bottici

“Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda” is a strange text. It presents itself as a dynamic interpretation of Freud’s Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, which, in its turn is, also, according to Adorno, a “dynamic interpretation” of Le Bon’s description of the mass mind.[1] It ...

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The Infant King and Washington’s Tripartite Soul

Freud, Plato, and Trump

October 18, 2017 • by Yuval Adler

In 1933 Charles Laughton won an Oscar for Alexander Korda’s The Private Life of Henry VIII. It is a bravura performance, worth revisiting. Laughton’s Henry runs around like a child who just learned how to walk. He gropes, screams, whines, and eats like a baby playing with his food. His temper ...

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Reading Adorno on Fascism in the Age of Trump

A New School roundtable

October 7, 2017 • by Lucas Ballestín

In an era marked by the rise of a paradoxically international right-wing populism, and in the midst of ethno-nationalist tumult in the United States, this roundtable reflects on the legacy and contemporary utility of “Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda.” Might Freud and other psychoanalytic theorists still have something ...

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Freudian Theory and The Pattern of Fascist Propaganda

Part 3

October 5, 2017 • by Jamieson Webster

Adorno is quick to pick up what I think of as the central theme for my remarks and touches on a great deal of what I have worked on in Freud and Lacan, namely on the question of love and family. Adorno says that Freud’s article is prophetic probably because ...

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Adorno’s Freud in the Age of Trump

Part 1

October 2, 2017 • by Vladimir Pinheiro Safatle

Let us recall Freud's fundamental thesis in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. In this text, Freud presents a general proposition about the process of constitution of collective identities. It is enunciated as follows: "such a primary mass is an amount (Anzahl) of individuals who have placed a single ...

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The Psychopathology of the US Elections

Why Elias Canetti’s Crowds and Power is Relevant Today

June 5, 2017 • by Leonard Mazzone

When it was published in 1960, Elias Canetti’s Crowds and Power did not achieve the acclaim enjoyed by his novel Die Blendung (1935), his dramas Die Hochzeit (1932), Die Komödie der Eitelkeit (1950) and Die Befriesteten (1964) and, later, the many volumes of aphorisms and the three volumes of his ...