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Since at least the 1980’s, any university student who wanted to learn about Freud or psychoanalysis would not be directed to departments of psychology, nor to psychiatry, but would instead be ushered to the English department. The irony of this circumstance is, of course, that such guidance returns the student to the origins of psychoanalysis. […]
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When Freud first glimpsed the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor in 1909, he remarked to Jung, ‘They don’t realize we’re bringing them the plague.’ Freud felt certain the Americans would reject his theories. The double irony in his statement, however, is that though Americans at the turn of the century would resist his […]
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Todd Dufresne author of The Late Sigmund Freud continues his look at the Freud that has been ignored, avoided, forbidden, and whitewashed for decades.
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I recently contributed a short entry for Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Environment (2017) called “Future.” In it I outline the task of thinking the future in light of the crisis of capitalism and the catastrophe that is global warming. Inspired by this work I am currently researching the philosophical significance of the […]
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As Mikkel Borch-Jakobsen and Sonu Shamdasani discuss in The Freud Files, the legend of Freud as the creator of psychoanalysis persists to this day, and is immortalized in our books, films, and art. Richard Cronenberg's film interpretation about the debates between Freud and Jung was released around the US last month, but Freud has become a regular fixture on the stage as well as the screen.
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