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The New Age of Anxiety
Rather than bemoaning a new Age of Anxiety, we need to examine more closely the anxieties of our age.
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Love & Risk
Beyond the fear of penetration in the adult couple lies the childhood fear of being penetrated by the father, the repressed motif that underlies so much…
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AI Therapy
One effect of the rise of AI therapy will no doubt be to perpetuate the assimilation of humans to machines, as we judge our own interventions by…
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Sometimes we can be surprised when these dynamics change and shift: an analysand explained recently how his sexual desire for his partner disappeared…
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The White Lotus Speech
Wanting to be someone, after all, may not be incompatible with sexual desire, and identification and desire can alternate or be experienced…
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Negative Identity
Negative identity is the part of ourselves that crystallises what our parents reject, the negativity that we perceived in them that then becomes a…
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Trump-Zelensky-Vance
The burning desire in him to erase his own humiliation is most probably the very reason he is US President
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LESS SEX?
Sex becomes a kind of reminder of love, and that’s one of the reasons why it is so often followed by disappointment, anger, or a sense of loss.
Dec 14, 2024
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TEARS FOR TRUMP
Behind the bluster lies a wounded, humiliated, and desperate individual.
Dec 9, 2024
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‘Adolescence’
A boy kills a girl; we feel sorry for the boy, and learn next to nothing about the girl or the plight of her family.
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Hypochondria
Naming a suspected illness can bring relief to some and intolerable anxiety to others, but the shadow of a name is almost always present in the…
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Sleeping with…
Latent within adult sex acts is the childhood wish to be in the same bed as the parent, to possess them by being with them.
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