The American Psychoanalyst
Contemporary writing on clinical practice, theory, art, politics, and everyday psychic life.
TAP is a digital and print publication exploring psychoanalysis in dialogue with culture, politics, art, and contemporary life.
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A RETURN TO LITERATURE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS? IT'S TIME
Earlier this year, colleges and universities began to report a surprising trend about their 2023 applicants:
PLAYING THE VILLAIN
Chukwudi Iwuji on creative process, childhood dreams, and his role in Guardians of the Galaxy 3…
FROM BIOLOGICAL TO BALANCED
We got the best drugs.” That was my answer when asked why I chose…
CONVERSION
Jack Drescher was not yet a doctor, just finishing up medical school and beginning…
THE FREEING SPEECH OF PIONEER ERIKA SCHMIDT
Erika Schmidt was a woman of many firsts: the first woman, the…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: ARNOLD RICHARDS
Dear Austin, congratulations on your new TAP. The content and the graphics are awesome. I am a proud grandfather. I started TAP in 1989.
TEMPORALITY AND THE FIGHT FOR MEANING IN ‘THE FATHER’ (2020)
In a pivotal scene very near the end of Florian Zeller’s 2020 film The Father, the titular character Anthony (played by Sir Anthony Hopkins) says to a caregiver in a heartbreaking moment of memory struggle, “I feel as if I’m losing all my leaves ... the branches and the wind and the rain ... I don’t know what’s happening anymore.”
