Psychoanalysis Archives - Page 6 of 9

Education

25 Alternatives to Penis Envy

A Preliminary List

January 12, 2017 • by Elizabeth Harnarine Wentling

Penis envy is a catchy term, which is one reason it effectively made its way into popular culture. Coined in Freud’s 1925 Some Psychological Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction Between the Sexes, it is widely misunderstood to mean, or used to perpetuate, the idea that those who posses a penis ...

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Time for Resolution

This Year We Save Democracy

January 11, 2017 • by Jill Gentile

New Year’s resolutions are a curious ritual. Each year we promise to change, even as we can’t help but recall last year’s resolutions and measure how far we’ve fallen short. Human beings are by and large procrastinators. We typically postpone any significant change until it’s almost too late -- until ...

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Trump Calls Killing Addicts, “Right Approach”

Philippines President Claims Trump Endorsed His Violent Anti-drug Campaign

December 23, 2016 • by Kevin Franciotti

Donald Trump’s inviting Rodrigo Duterte to the White House adds to the growing list of victimized, marginalized groups endangered by the incoming administration. Amongst the many targets of his bigoted, xenophobic, racist, ableist, and misogynist assaults, drug addicts, too, may now find a place. The President-elect’s alleged endorsement of the brutal ...

Trump Calls Killing Addicts, “Right Approach”

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The Lady in the Van (2015)

Movie Review

December 20, 2016 • by Margaret Kim Peterson

“One seldom was able to do her a good turn without some thoughts of strangulation.” Mary (or is it Margaret?) Shepherd was a pianist. And then she was a nun. And then… well, it’s not clear just what happened next. But by the time we meet her, in Alan Bennett’s ...

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The Day After in Therapy

Post-Trump Election Win

November 18, 2016 • by Eyal Rozmarin

They say there are two Americas, but in my office there has been these past few days only one: frightened, demoralized, disoriented -- but also defiant, even aroused. My first patient of the day after the elections asked if we could postpone so he could watch Hilary Clinton concede on ...

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The Mass Psychology of Trumpism

Old and New Myths

November 17, 2016 • by Chiara Bottici

Having spent quite some time studying the philosophy of political myth and, in particular, of fascist narratives, I could not but perceive something troubling in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign slogan: “Make America Great Again!” Every word is important. Let us explore each one by one. ...

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The Politics of Nostalgia

The Psychoanalysis of Longing for Politics Past

November 16, 2016 • by Stacey Novack

A well-recognized dimension of Trump’s success has been his ability to capitalize on nostalgic yearning, particularly among white, “rust-belt” voters. “Make America Great Again,” appealed to the apparently powerful and ubiquitous desire to return to a simpler and more secure imagined past, to a time that preceded losses of jobs, ...

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Post-Election Ghosts

November 15, 2016 • by Jeremy Safran

I want to be able to say something about the aftermath of the election, as a psychologist, as a psychoanalyst; as a Canadian expat since 1990, who only decided to become an American citizen after George W. Bush was first elected. But most importantly as a human being. But it’s ...

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Can You Text Your Way to Mental Health?

A New Approach to Therapy Raises Concerns Among Professionals

November 9, 2016 • by J.D. Finkelstein

Visiting the website for a popular app which advertises confidential, anonymous, 24/7 text psychotherapy, I was struck by how similar it looked to those adult chatrooms which advertise “hot singles in your area are waiting to talk to you now.” Replace the words “hot singles” with “licensed therapists” and you ...

A Tale of Freud, Women’s Bodies and Male Dread

A Psychoanalyst’s take on Trump and Hillary’s Private Position

November 2, 2016 • by Victoria Malkin

We are repeatedly told election 2016 is no longer an issues-based election but a question of temperament and personality. Two weeks before voting day, America's choice of a new President had devolved into a referendum on authority, leadership and sex. We are choosing the leader we imagine we want, and ...

A Tale of Freud, Women’s Bodies and Male Dread

The King of Campaign Kettle Logic: Trump on the Stump and in the Gutter

October 5, 2016 • by Sanford Schram

With the New York Times reporting on Donald Trump’s leaked 1995 joint tax return with his then-wife Marla Maples Trump, we get to see how Trump persistently uses “kettle logic” on the campaign trail to avoid ever having to say he is wrong, sorry, or in the least bit ashamed ...

The King of Campaign Kettle Logic: Trump on the Stump and in the Gutter

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Queer Reflections On A Summer Of Violence: Surviving Orlando Without Alibi

August 29, 2016 • by Ryan Gustafson

In a June 12, 2016, Op-Ed (“The Scope of the Orlando Carnage”) New York Times columnist Frank Bruni joined many pundits in cautioning against what he described as narrowly sectarian interpretations of the violence that was unleashed at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on the previous evening. “Let’s be ...