by Molly Merson, MFT

Was Freud Right about America? Does “America”’s social contract contradict Freud’s take on the give-and-take necessary for a functional society? And, is this settler-colonial project sustainable? 

Game Review: ‘The Signifier’— A Heady Mix of Cutting-Edge Tech and Psychoanalysis. What might Freud think of psychoanalysis vis-a-vis the world of gaming? While psychoanalysts have wondered about gaming and gamers, could a game help us wonder about psychoanalysis in turn? The game ‘The Signifier’ could offer this space of turning the mirror back towards ourselves, both eerie and familiar…

Clipping.- Visions of Bodies Being Burned. This review of the musique concrète-meets-rap trio Clipping. incorporates Freud’s views of the uncanny to describe the soundscape of an experience of ghosts, the phantasmal, the unsettled, and the undead. This album may be a good accompaniment to Halloween (or to psychoanalysis).