psychoanalysis

You’ll Never Make It Alone: On Groups in ‘The Good Place’

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

‘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

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.

“Red Hood & the Outlaws” is Editor’s Choice of DC’s New 52

Soft Subversions by Felix Guattari

‘Freud’s Requiem’ Staggers Beneath the Weight of Idolatry

‘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.