Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’ and the Three Ghosts of Subjectivity
Every brick in Pink Floyd’s The Wall shows that haunting lies not in wailing and chain-rattling but in trauma, alienation, and absence.
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Biography ‘Saving Freud’ Tells of Struggles with Freud’s Stubborn Denial
Andrew Nagorski’s engrossing biography, Saving Freud, brings forth the dangerous power of denial.
‘What Is Sex?’ Can Be Frustrating Sometimes
In What Is Sex Alenka Zupančič provides a brief, difficult, yet ultimately rewarding look at the “otherness” of sex as an act, identity, and communication.
Film Forum Marx Brothers Festival: Unassuaged Desire
The Marx Brothers are polymorphously perverse: they find pleasure everywhere.
‘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.