‘My Word Against Mine’ Turns Fracture into Procedure
Psychoanalysis documentary One Word Against Mine relies on that unstable border between what seems to come from outside and what has already taken shape within.
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You’ll Never Make It Alone: On Groups in ‘The Good Place’
The Good Place puts a dirtbag, a human turtleneck, a narcissistic monster, and the dumbest person ever n the same room, because they’ll never make it alone.
‘The Anguish of Thought’: A Logical Line of Analysis for a Study of Madness
Regarding Evelyne Grossman’s The Anguish of Thought, Ph.D. candidates across America should lay down their pencils before they embarrass themselves.
Rethinking the Closure of the Asylums in the Age of Community Care
Barbara Taylor's "bin memoir", as she terms it, tells a story of neglect, dysfunction, and failed expectations. She recovered; the mental health care system didn't.
‘Freud’s Requiem’ Staggers Beneath the Weight of Idolatry
Freud’s Requiem is at first buried beneath hero-worship before it resurrects to the occasion of a proper requiem.