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?
Kurt Cobain’s Rage and Bliss
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.
Hear the Color, See the Music
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.
Psychoanalytic Fiction Writers
Storytelling is central to both literature and psychoanalysis, as is language more generally: what is said and not said.
American Envy and Greed
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.
CAN PSYCHOANALYSIS SAVE MARRIAGE? AND WHEN SHOULD IT?
How do we approach patients who are experiencing a downturn in their marriage, or marriage-like commitment, even a desiccation of love?
The Atheist and the Apologist
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.
THE TRAVELER
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.
PLAYING THE VILLAIN
Chukwudi Iwuji on creative process, childhood dreams, and his role in Guardians of the Galaxy 3…
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.”