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Continuing the theme of Ominous Transitions, the New School is offering a series of four seminars to extend the discussion generated by Dr. Alexander Hinton’s presentation on February 1, 2020. This series of Ominous Transitions seminars will center around themes of haunting and specters that linger in the social and political collective.  Each seminar will focus on a …

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Science fiction has struggled to achieve the same credibility as highbrow literature. In 2019, the celebrated author Ian McEwan dismissed science fiction as the stuff of “anti-gravity boots” rather than “human dilemmas”. According to McEwan, his own book about intelligent robots, Machines Like Me, provided the latter by examining the ethics of artificial life – as if …

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Enter your details on the form to download your complimentary copy of Psychoanalysis Among Competing Schools, a FreeBook from Routledge Mental Health and the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis. This FreeBook presents both the clinical and theoretical work of board-certified psychoanalytic psychologists working from a wide array of theoretical orientations. The issues engaged are as …

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By a weird coincidence, on Feb 8th, 2020,I stumbled across this feature in the National Post on Jordan Peterson’s recent brush with death. Oddly enough, it coincides with the arrival of my new book, entitled Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Postmodern University (Palgrave MacMillen, 2020), in which I criticize Peterson roundly for his one-sided analysis of …

Jordan Peterson update (Feb 2020) Read More »