Category: Psychoanalysis
Sanaas Haus hat tausend Augen, die kritisch jeden ihrer Schritte überwachen. Seit sie mit ihrer Familie aus dem Irak nach Deutschland gekommen ist, versucht sie, der familiären Enge zu entkommen und doch den Frieden zu wahren. Als Kind ist Sanaa mit ihren kurdischen Eltern nach Deutschland gekommen. Inzwischen ist sie eine junge Erwachsene, lebt aber […]
Das Haus hat Augen – “Beschreibung einer Krabbenwanderung” von Karosh Taha
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The Ha-Ha by Jennifer Dawson
As I have mentioned before, there is a long tradition of women writers depicting crushing mental health conditions in fiction, from Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s unforgettable short story The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) to Emily Holmes Coleman’s account of a woman’s experiences of post-partum psychosis in The Shutter of Snow, to Sylvia Plath’s semi-autobiographical novel The Bell […]
The Ha-Ha by Jennifer Dawson
Psychoanalysis theory in literary criticism explores the mind of the author, characters, and readers, covering the id, ego, superego, defense mechanisms, and anxiety.
What Is Psychoanalysis Theory in Literary Criticism?
This time took my road warrior skills to go again to jolly England with the Le Shuttle train service (see post), and my Ford ; towing along my good boys and wonderful Rex! It was a very nice trip going into the countryside and seeing several towns of wonderul architecture and history, This one is a […]
The Museums of Oxford !!!
Erich Fromm transformed psychological and philosophical writing by giving it a more human voice. Writing in clear, accessible English, he explored love, freedom, and identity as lived experiences. His work bridged disciplines and brought complex ideas into everyday language, shaping how modern society understands the self, relationships, and emotional life.
Birth of Erich Fromm (1900–1980) — The Thinker Who Humanized the Language of Psychology
What happens behind the closed door of a therapist’s office has long remained mysterious to outsiders. Through his groundbreaking literary work, psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz is pulling back that curtain, revealing the profound human stories that unfold during therapeutic sessions. His approach has sparked a renewed interest in psychoanalysis among readers who might never have considered […]
How Stephen Grosz Is Making Psychoanalysis Accessible to Modern Readers
A Lacanian reading of Marty Supreme reveals a film structured by obsessional desire, maternal enigma, paternal absence, and the fantasy of total satisfaction. Marty’s pursuit of table-tennis supremacy becomes an Oedipal drama of deferral, humiliation, and lack, culminating in a fragile symbolic reorientation before the child he can no longer disavow.
Marty Supreme (2026): Film Analysis
At the conclusion of the recent three‑part Channel 4 documentary ‘The Tony Blair Story’, its subject stares into the camera for several awkward seconds before delivering a peculiar afterthought: “Also… very important to understand about me: I’m not into psychoanalysis. Right? I think there’s far too much of it, I think people spend far too […]
Tony Blair and the Subject of Psychoanalysis
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