“The Analyst’s Necessary Vertigo” and Vertigo – A Preview Not a Review
Surveying psychoanalyst Jade McGleughlin’s Clinical Storytelling, Art and the Problems of Being, subtitled The Analyst’s Necessary Vertigo (2024), I am stru...
House and Garden
A chief characteristic of non-documentary cinema is the way the director’s unique vision not only shapes but also stylistically characterizes the narrative. J...
On Conviction
Consider the contrast between conviction and the emotional states (akin to curiosity) restless, incomplete, or being in search of something....
The Feeling of Real
Book Review:Coming to Life in the Consulting RoomThomas OgdenNew York: Routledge (2021)175 pp. Perhaps nobody is more equipped to theorize psychoanalysis (psyc...
Aesthetic Psychoanalysis
In a recent article recounting her grandparents’ acquaintance with the Joyce family, the novelist Anne Enright describes how a reader can feel a special kinsh...