Psychoanalysis in the News

by Molly Merson, MFT

Elemental Catastrophe: Ecopsychoanalysis and the Viral Uncanny of Covid-19. This lengthy article folds together Deleuze, Camus, Freud, and contemporary ecopsychoanalysis to explore Covid-19 in the realm of the unconscious and uncanny amidst ecological and libidinal uncertainty.

What Would Freud Make of the Toilet Paper Panic? Freud and feces? Poop and psychoanalysis? This “piece” offers few different psychoanalytic takes on why TP has become such a precious, and public, commodity during this pandemic.

Psychoanalysis in Time of Plague. Jamieson Webster shares some of her personal and professional experience of being an analyst in a pandemic.

Anxious Argentines, in Coronavirus Lockdown, Bring Therapy Couch Back Home. The New York Times offers a practical take on the helpfulness of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, now and in general.