The literary magazine slush pile as cultural unconscious

In Nolan’s Odyssey, the son inherits not authority but its collapse—forcing Telemachus to navigate shame, loss, and the uncertain task of becoming without a reliable father.

Biographer Jamie Fisher on creativity, psychoanalysis, and the need for connection

Sigmund Freud and David Lynch open portals to an enigmatic new film

Surplus enjoyment in Kurosawa’s Cloud

Frederick Exley’s literary pursuit of Edmund Wilson

Telling children fairy tales in a digital world

Valerie Steele on Freud, fetishism, and the emotional life of clothing

Gender and embodiment in fashion

Adrienne Rich and the individuation of American democracy

New documentary examines Freud’s life and work

Sinners invites viewers to face the realities of collective pain, hold the tensions of joy and injustice, and imagine a freer world.

A video game and a board game revisit the early days of psychoanalysis

What a popular genre tells us about women’s interest in murder

A biographer’s fantasy

What happens to our sense of self when we are relating to an object that mirrors back simply what we want to see?

The trope of the vampire allows you to project your desire onto a supernatural being.

Star cartoonist Raina Telgemeier draws a new generation.

Hear the TAP team perform a Beatles classic.

Author Jeremy Eichler: “It’s not just we who remember music, but music that remembers us as a society.”

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?

The new edition … sheds more light on Kurt Cobain and Nirvana, but also the work of being a journalist and trying to get to the bottom of who your subject is.

Seeing music as a “body” awash in color, hearing it when no one else does, landed her in hospitals as a teenager and resulted in misdiagnoses such as bipolar and schizophrenia—along with the requisite medications.

Storytelling is central to both literature and psychoanalysis, as is language more generally: what is said and not said.

This movie is a fanciful representation of what many Americans are experiencing now—a full-on identity crisis—and if we don’t discover who we are and what we’re here for, we’re in for a mental collapse.

How many of these Freudian flicks have you seen?

How do we approach patients who are experiencing a downturn in their marriage, or marriage-like commitment, even a desiccation of love?

Sigmund Freud’s famous dictum “from error to error, one discovers the entire truth” seems entirely appropriate as a guide for attempting to critically evaluate Matthew Brown’s strange film adaptation of Mark St. Germain’s one-act play Freud’s Last Session.

In season 8 of his CNN travel show Parts Unknown, Anthony Bourdain visits a psychoanalyst during a trip to Buenos Aires, a city some have called the psychoanalytic capital of the world.

Picture this: One Saturday morning in the mid- 1980s, a ten-year-old boy and his mother are roaming the weekly farmers’ market in a college town in western Massachusetts.