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Hidden Violence
Speech does little more than keep the moment of death at bay
Dec 20, 2025
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The New Age of Anxiety
Rather than bemoaning a new Age of Anxiety, we need to examine more closely the anxieties of our age.
Aug 4, 2025
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Love & Risk
Beyond the fear of penetration in the adult couple lies the childhood fear of being penetrated by the father, the repressed motif that underlies so much…
Jul 8, 2025
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AI Therapy
One effect of the rise of AI therapy will no doubt be to perpetuate the assimilation of humans to machines, as we judge our own interventions by…
Jun 23, 2025
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YOU
Sometimes we can be surprised when these dynamics change and shift: an analysand explained recently how his sexual desire for his partner disappeared…
Apr 27, 2025
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The White Lotus Speech
Wanting to be someone, after all, may not be incompatible with sexual desire, and identification and desire can alternate or be experienced…
Mar 22, 2025
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Negative Identity
Negative identity is the part of ourselves that crystallises what our parents reject, the negativity that we perceived in them that then becomes a…
Mar 16, 2025
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Trump-Zelensky-Vance
The burning desire in him to erase his own humiliation is most probably the very reason he is US President
Mar 2, 2025
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LESS SEX?
Sex becomes a kind of reminder of love, and that’s one of the reasons why it is so often followed by disappointment, anger, or a sense of loss.
Dec 14, 2024
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TEARS FOR TRUMP
Behind the bluster lies a wounded, humiliated, and desperate individual.
Dec 9, 2024
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HANDS
There is nothing that takes me adequately out of myself
Jan 3
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Repetition
We repeat in order to reverse a situation where we might have had no control, and been purely passive
Dec 27, 2025
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Fairy Tales and the Body
The secret doors, rooms, and cavities that appear in these tales are geographies of the body
Dec 13, 2025
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Letting Go
The attention paid to grasping in early life has overshadowed the other manual activity that is learnt much later: the ability to let go
Dec 6, 2025
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