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‘On the Couch’ Review: A Close Reading of Freud
The Wall Street Journal· 1 month agoSigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic ideas are widespread, but outdated. There may be profit in treating him less as a scientist and more as a literary figure.
‘The Secret Mind of Bertha Pappenheim’ Review: Getting to Know Anna O.
The Wall Street Journal· 2 months agoBOOKSHELF There’s always much to talk about when it comes to Freud’s talking cure. One way to begin...
‘Anxiety’ Review: Confronting That Queasy Feeling
The Wall Street Journal· 3 months agoBOOKSHELF Imagine your happiest moments and you will probably think of a time in which you were blissfully free from anxiety. Given a choice, most of us...
A woman as a lamp – and a man with a turtle’s head? Welcome to the surreal world of Grete Stern
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 months agoReaders leafing through the Argentinian women’s magazine Idilio (“Love Affair”) in 1949 were in for...
The Upper West Side Therapy Cult That Broke All the Rules
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 10 months agoAmerica loves a therapy story. The Shrink Next Door, based on the podcast of the same name, tells...
Why humanity’s appetite for war will never be sated
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 day agoIt’s easy to think that we’re living through a period of increasing warfare around the world. Ukraine and Russia, Israel and Gaza, the sabre-rattling of...
What really happened to Oppenheimer's ex Jean Tatlock, whose life is more complex than what the...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 11 months agoFlorence Pugh as Jean Tatlock and Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer in "Oppenheimer."Universal Pictures...
This Blood Lust ‘Disorder’ Is Really an Old Prank Gone Wrong
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPhoto Illustration by The Daily Beast / GettyIn 2003, when Shane Chartres-Abbott was facing charges...
‘Beau Is Afraid’ Review: Joaquin Phoenix Plays a Simpering Man-Child in Ari Aster’s Runaway...
Variety via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPoor Beau. Nearly half a century on Earth, and he’s never really lived. Sure, he was born — that...
Frantz Fanon’s Conflicted Vision for Decolonization
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 3 months agoNear the end of The Battle of Algiers, the 1966 film directed by Italian leftist Gillo Pontecorvo, crowds waving flags and chanting slogans surge into...