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February 3, 2022
Udi Greenberg
Freud and the Miseries of Politics
It is tempting to harness “Civilization and Its Discontents” as a guide to our contemporary political morass, but doing so may obscure its most valuable message.
June 1, 2017
Warren Breckman
The Fortunes of Freud
The prestige that psychoanalysis gained in the midcentury was also its downfall.
August 28, 2012
Simon van Zuylen-Wood
Feces and the Gold Standard: A Psychological Explanation of Goldbuggery
August 7, 2009
Adam Kirsch
A Nation of Commentators
April 7, 2003
Leon Wieseltier
The Ego and the Yid
February 24, 2002
Paul Berman
A Child of His Century
July 11, 1988
Robert Wright
Why Men Are Still Beasts
February 10, 1973
Reed Whittemore
The Family Romance
Dissecting Harold Bloom’s theory of originality
October 6, 1952
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