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Jessica Gross, "Hysteria" (Unnamed Press, 2020)
Jessica Gross is a valuable ally. An intuitive reader of Freud her debut novel--Hysteria (Unnamed Press, 2020)--embraces Oedipal conflict, unconscious fantasy, and voracious sexuality...
44 min
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Roger Kennedy, "The Power of Music: Psychoanaly...
Why does music elicit emotions?
33 min
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Mark Bork, Jr., "Don’t Be a Dick: Change Yourse...
When we are hurt, we hurt others—yet when they hurt us back, we wonder why...
47 min
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Mark Winborn, "Jungian Analysis: Art and Techni...
Engaging with one’s patients is one of the most complicated aspects of being a psychoanalyst...
59 min
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M. Hennefeld and N. Sammond, "Abjection Incorpo...
The authors move beyond simple critiques of abjection as a punitive form of social death, illustrating how it has become a contested mode of political and cultural capital—empowering for some but oppressive for others...
69 min
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A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polym...
Whitehead ask Eisler "Is a frequent occurrence that men see The Christ; and are there occasions known when the visions are free from religiosity and at the same time full of life and power?”
58 min
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Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel, "Holiness and Transgre...
Drawing on anthropology and psychoanalytic theory, Kaniel enhances our understanding of the connection between female transgression and redemption...
69 min
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Jamieson Webster, "Conversion Disorder: Listeni...
What do psychoanalysts do with bodies, and what do they do with them now?
55 min
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J. Weinberger and V. Stoycheva, "The Unconsciou...
Joel Weinberger and Valentina Stoycheva undertake to bring together the various lines of study concerning the unconscious in order to arrive at an integrated model of unconscious processes....
44 min
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Claudia Luiz, "The Making of A Psychoanalyst: S...
Luiz invites the reader into session switch her as she demonstrates “how two human beings interact with each other to effect profound change.”
55 min
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
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Christina Griffin, "The Regulars’ Table Convers...
"Conversations with Ferenczi" is about deep enduring friendships...
55 min
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Adrienne Harris and Plinio Montagna, "Psychoana...
The areas of the Law and psychoanalysis overlap in interesting and compelling fashion...
51 min
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Nancy J. Chodorow, "The Psychoanalytic Ear and ...
Chodorow advocates for a return to an interest in the social and social sciences in psychoanalytic thinking...
63 min
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Fulvio Mazzacane, "Contemporary Bionian Theory ...
Psychoanalytic theory has developed very rapidly in recent years across many schools of thought. One of the most popular builds on the work of Wilfred Bion...
53 min
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Adrian Johnston, "Prolegomena to Any Future Mat...
Johnston looks at three recent French theorists, Jacques Lacan, Alain Badiou and Quentin Meillasoux, arguing that all three ultimately fail to maintain a consistent atheism...
77 min
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Dominik Finkelde, "Excessive Subjectivity: Kant...
How are we to conceive of acts that suddenly expose the injustice of the current order?
74 min
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min
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Lisa Baraitser, "Enduring Time" (Bloomsbury Aca...
Baraitser explores what it means to ‘take care’ of time in our current temporal predicament, where time appears radically suspended -- without the hope of a progressive future -- yet intensely felt...
62 min
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Bruce E. Reis, "Creative Repetition and Intersu...
Honoring his “intellectual commitments” Reis enlists theorists including Winnicott, de M’Uzan, Bollas, and Ogden, to help him render elegant clinical moments as opposed to grand narrative case studies...
58 min
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Owen Whooley, "On the Heels of Ignorance: Psych...
Whooley’s book is no anti-psychiatric screed; instead, he reveals a field that has muddled through periodic reinventions and conflicting agendas of curiosity, compassion, and professional striving.
59 min
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Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
51 min
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Zahi Zalloua, "​Žižek on Race: Towards an Anti-...
Zalloua uses Žižekian philosophy to arrive at more complicated, but also more productive and emancipatory visions of racial oppression and emancipation might look like...
37 min
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Todd McGowan, "Emancipation After Hegel: Achiev...
McGowan combines sophisticated discussion of matters like the limits of formal logic and the history of German Idealism with playful allusions to Star Trek characters and classic films like Casablanca and Bridge on the River Kwai...
50 min
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Sukey Fontelieu, "The Archetypal Pan in America...
Fontelieu seeks to examine a collection of social and political traumas, both personal and collective...
60 min