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Sunlight and Benson
It’s funny to look back, ten years on, and realise I’m still just doing the stuff I was trained to do at university. It’s essentially just close reading – I like to pick up a game and look at one facet or another. It’s not a strict rule, but it’s pretty clearly my bread and […]
Writing and the Public Sphere
The reflective Karen Horney, like her psychoanalytic predecessors, stood at the crossroads of the 19th and 20th centuries. Revolutionary responses to feudalism and new visions of happiness did not end with the rise of nation-states or the slow expansion of democratic ideals. Dissatisfaction endured—in the nuclear family, in intimate relationships, and in work. Though further […]
Cultural Psychoanalysis: Karen Horney Pt. 1
Reading Chinese poetry
Ideograms dance before
Eyes like inky kids
Sleepy, time, time
Forgotten music from years
Long, long in the past
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