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Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis news and analysis from The Nation
April 6, 2018
Another reader asks if capitalism exacerbates passive-aggressive behavior. (Whatever .)
June 1, 2017
To keep up with the New York Intellectuals, Diana Trilling forgot—and forgave—nothing.
February 3, 2017
Psychiatrists are speaking out to warn of the dangers of Trump’s instability, but politicizing mental health is a mistake.
December 1, 2016
Return of the repressed… Book therapy… Happily enough ever after… Dylan revisited…
Bentham’s revenge…
November 2, 2016
Why did one of the 20th century’s most influential thinkers fade from significance?
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July 29, 2016
Eleanor Chai’s poems require delving below the surface of each compact, enjambment-packed stanza, forcing the reader through a process of discovery not unlike Chai’s own origin story.
May 20, 2016
Even as it condemns Jefferson for his immoral conduct, O’Connor’s novel still holds him up as a hero.
July 16, 2015
“Why has this unpretentious, mildly affecting chronicle of a few days in the life of a disturbed adolescent been read with enthusiasm?”
May 6, 2015
“One cannot close this book without a sense of depression,” The Nation ’s reviewer said of Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams .
October 28, 2014
John Lahr’s biography of Tennessee William gets mired down in psychoanalysis.