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What is Politicized Psychoanalysis?

Trump Problems and the Neoliberal Normal in Psychoanalysis

February 17, 2017 • by Daniel Polyak

When I ask my students to tell me what comes to mind when they hear the term neoliberalism they say: the rich get richer and the poor get poorer; the outsourcing of labor to the global south; gender and sexual compliance in public assistance and welfare programs; the systematic oppression ...

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The Political Psychology of the President

Freud Not Orwell on Trump and his Lying

January 30, 2017 • by Sanford Schram

Throughout it all, Trump has acted in his grand style as the head of his yet-to-be-relinquished business where he did not report to any board of directors. Alternatively, he followed suit as that celebrity television personality who played himself as that sole decision-maker of his private business. He has been ...

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Democracy and Tyranny in the City and the Soul

A reply to Andrew Sullivan on Trump and Plato’s Republic

January 28, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

Sullivan does not sufficiently stress a key component of the analysis offered by Plato: that the nature of the regime that rules the city relates to the nature of the “soul” inside each individual citizen. When we bring that component back in, I think, we can see why Trump is ...

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Populism and Freudian Mass Psychology

Three Paradoxes

January 26, 2017 • by Eli Zaretsky

Paradox one: Populism is generally described as irrational, emotional, intolerant of opposing viewpoints, and so forth, yet the main populist insight, namely that the system is rigged against the ordinary person, is correct. On the main question, in other words, populism is far more rational than the putatively rational dominant ...

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When Politics Invades the Personal

A New Mandate for Psychoanalysis in the Trump Era

January 16, 2017 • by Joan Golden-Alexis

James arrives at his session, bleary-eyed, having stayed up very late to hear the results of the 2016 presidential election. He doesn’t speak, but instead begins playing a recording of Judy Collins singing. As the song ends, he quietly repeats the refrain: The weight of the world, too heavy to lift ...

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The Philosophy and Psychoanalysis of the Image

A conversation

January 13, 2017 • by Chiara Bottici and Jamieson Webster

On the occasion of Totem & Taboo, an exhibition of new paintings by Daniel Horowitz at Tillou Fine Art (running through January 21), philosopher Chiara Bottici and psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster discussed the role of the image in philosophy and psychoanalysis. The exhibition is accompanied by a series of salon-style interdisciplinary ...

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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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Simianization in the Film “Sing”

Glaring caricature and stereotype provides teachable moment about racial bias

January 9, 2017 • by Jill Corson Lake

The animated film “Sing,” which opened on December 21, features a lazy, tone-deaf, and hurtful character choice by writer and director Garth Jennings. Whether conscious or unconscious, Jennings’ script perpetuates systemic racism and the history of simianization and oppression of black people by depicting them as gorillas, monkeys, and apes. “Sing” ...

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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 ...