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Tag: psychoanalysis
Faking a Limp: Display Your Symptom
People fake limps. Often. From a slight heaviness on one side to a full on Charlie Chaplin stagger, the fake … More
Jokes Children Tell and why we like them
The following are three of the best examples from a large number of ‘children’s jokes’ doing the rounds on social … More
On Biting your Nails and Scratching your Bollocks
Theorist Rosi Braidotti writes that ‘habits are socially enforced’. Sometimes it is easy to see how a behaviour trend could … More
Can you play football without balls?
A guest post by R.M. Christofides The study of football often meets resistance on these shores, a hangover from the … More
On the ‘Freudian’ Cameron
So, does David Cameron really ‘resent’ the poor, as per his allegedly ‘Freudian’ slip during Wednesday’s address to the Conservative … More
Universal Exaggeration
One of the reviewers of our book was reminded of Theodor Adorno’s famous remark about psychoanalysis: that in Freud’s work, … More
The Sinthomic Blank in Future Bass and Dubstep
In classical psychoanalysis a symptom is roughly a sign of something that ails us, which speaks through us by ‘hooking … More
Talking Behind the Back
Person A and Person B are working side by side in an office. ‘Apparently’, remarks A, ‘I’m the office … More
REVIEW in CRITICAL THEORY
Absolutely lovely to have our first US review come out today with CRITICAL THEORY. CLICK HERE