Why Sigmund Freud is making a comeback in the age of authoritarianism and AI Freud’s insights into trauma, repression and the unconscious are finding new relevance and millions of followers.

Interesting piece on the renewed interest in Freud in our current age of political upheavals, AI, and authoritarianism. (By @lawbender.bsky.social for @uk.theconversation.com)
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Atomizing Analysis — Parapraxis The Birth and Death of Community Psychoanalysis in Argentina Federico Perelmuter

New online: Federico Perelmuter on the birth and death of community psychoanalysis in Argentina: www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/bir...

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‘Not just another book…’ | BPS Ella Rhodes reports on the winners of the 2025 British Psychological Society Book Award, and coverage in The Psychologist…

Four worthy winners of the @bpsofficial.bsky.social Book Award - all books we have covered www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
Congratulations @ginarippon.bsky.social @lawbender.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social Roxanne Khan, Laura Scarrone Bonhomme, Dr Michael Beattie and Skye Davies.

The Political Clinic: Psychoanalysis and Social Change in the Twentieth Century. By Carolyn Laubender. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 348p. | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core The Political Clinic: Psychoanalysis and Social Change in the Twentieth Century. By Carolyn Laubender. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 348p. - Volume 23 Issue 3

"An indispensable tour d'horizon..." Read the full review of THE POLITICAL CLINIC by Carolyn Laubender from PERSPECTIVE ON POLITICS. buff.ly/k7zyIgZ @poppublicsphere.bsky.social #politics

BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, Freud v Klein: The Battle For Our Children's Minds Tanya Byron explores how two remarkable women transformed the way we understand children.

In this episode of BBC Radio 4, (featuring contributions from author Carolyn Laubender), Tanya Byron explores the lives of two remarkable women, Anna Freud and Melanie Klein, asking how they came to transform our understanding of children’s inner worlds.

During fall migration, millions of birds pass through North Carolina, often flying at night. But bright lights can quickly disorient them, causing fatal building collisions.

You can protect migrating birds passing through by turning off all non-essential lighting at night.

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Today is Naksa Day, a day of commemoration for the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who were killed and expelled from their homes 58 years ago.

Lasting peace means acknowledging atrocities. By carrying our ancestors’ stories and pain, we can strive for a better future for our descendants.

Breakthrough in search for HIV cure leaves researchers ‘overwhelmed’ Exclusive: Melbourne team demonstrates way to make the virus visible within white blood cells, paving the way to fully clear it from the body

While it seems like the US has given up on HIV prevention and research, the rest of the world hasn’t. This, out of Australia, is remarkable.

Even Netflix cant top this soapy drama

When I was in grad school, I didn't understand why one prof made us read Nicos Poulantzas about the way Russia had erased certain people + ideas from public memory. I get it now.

“Dreaming of ‘Black Mummy’: Race, Gender, Decolonization, and D. W. Winnicott” with Dr. Carolyn Laubender | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies In this talk, Dr. Laubender turns to the work of midcentury British psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott in order to explore the intersectional gendered and racial dimensions implicit in his theory of "the go...

@ Stanford April 2 with The Political Clinic!

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Two weeks from today! A RETURN TO FREUD? NEW HISTORIES OF PSYCHOANALYSIS. Full program and livestream registration, available here: www.thepsychosocialfoundation.org/events

Hate Speech as the Action of Inequality - PSYCHOANALYSIS AND POLITICS By JILL GENTILE – March 5th at 6 pm London time/ 7 pm Berlin time/ 8 pm Cape Town and Jerusalem time/ 1 pm New York Time/ 12 noon Chicago time/ 10 am Vancouver time Part of the Psychoanalysis and Poli...

TOMORROW, March 5th JILL GENTILE – Hate Speech as the action of inequality Jill Gentile, PhD, is faculty member at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity. www.psa-pol.org/crises/hate-...

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if you thought archives were problematic, wait till you see no archives

“Let’s add some more slogans or lessons. Wrest the collective from the individual. Wrest the political from moralism.”—
@nicobaumbach.bsky.social's memoriam on Fredric Jameson’s pedagogy:

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Carolyn wins prestigious book prize | University of Essex The 2025 Book Prize of the American Psychoanalytic Association has been won by Dr Carolyn Laubender, from our Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies.

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Thus I vegetate…

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