On Being Jewish
There is something inside of me I can’t get rid of. It weighs me down at the center of my body like a stone.
White Noise
Is today’s schizophrenic media multiverse the companionable entity that TV once was?
Deus in Machina
From AI to VR to the gig economy, TAP 59.1 covers all things psychoanalysis and technology.
From Chosen Trauma to Depolarization
Addressing toxic polarization in groups using the work of Vamik Volkan
Psychoanalytic Education in a Post-Pandemic World
One of the most important strategies is for faculty to model engagement for the class by encouraging the creation of an active learning environment online.
Psychoanalysis and the Social
Psychoanalysis is moving into an exciting, challenging era, melding our historic focus on the psychological, subjective insides with this newer recognition of the individual’s social context.
The Trauma of Looking Back
Memory is a living system, constantly reconfiguring itself through a dialectical process of preserving the old while integrating the new.
Tell Me What I Want, Tell Me Who I Am
What happens to our sense of self when we are relating to an object that mirrors back simply what we want to see?
“I Am Appetite, Nothing More”
The trope of the vampire allows you to project your desire onto a supernatural being.
Psychoanalysis and Human Rights
Steven Reisner on politics, theater, and ending psychologists’ complicity in torture
A Cross-Cultural Perspective
New IPA reference tool traces the global migration and mutation of key ideas.
This Is Spinal TAP!
PR must become a well-funded priority if the organization’s going to survive and grow.
Music as unconscious chronicle
Author Jeremy Eichler: “It’s not just we who remember music, but music that remembers us as a society.”
Killing Me Softly with Insults
When our brains replace the actual lyric of a song with an erroneous substitution, is this a mere mishearing? Or is something more akin to Freudian parapraxis at play?
Revisiting the Seduction Theory
Rather than see every father as perverse, [Freud] let all abusers off the hook.