Free Associations

Covidian Reckonings

• An Interview with Samir Gandesha

  Samir Gandesha

  pp. 1-10

• The Covid Crisis: “A Wake-Up Call” to What?

  David M. Black

  pp. 11-17

• The Facemask Paradigm: Symptoms and Non-Neutral Limits During Coronavirus

  Alicia Valdés

  pp. 18-30

• COVID 19: Bringing the Unimaginable Realities of Gaza to the World

  Yasser Abu Jamei

  pp. 33-36

• Mental Health Organisations as Moral Agents: Professional Responsibility in a Settler-Colonial Context

  Martin Kemp

  pp. 37-51

• A Marxist-Psychoanalytical Appraisal of the “Jewish Question”

  Sabby Sagall

  pp. 52-64

• Bad Consciences: Projecting Israel's Racist-Settler Aggression onto Labour Party “Antisemitism”

  Les Levidow

  pp. 65-93

• This Thing called Love in Life and in the Consulting Room

  Patrick Casement

  pp. 106-118

• Reclaiming Play and Leisure: Toward a Humanistic Psychoanalytic Critique of Adulthood and the Work Ethic

  Jeremiah Morelock & Ayesha Hussain

  pp. 119-133

• When One plus One equals One: Truth and Blindness in the Oedipal Myth and Denis Villeneuve's Film Incendies

  Gila Ofer, Batya Shoshani & Michael Shoshani

  pp. 149-165

• Crazy Love: 50 Therapy Lessons by Patricia Morris. London: Adam Rei Books, 2020.

  Kurt Jacobsen

  pp. 170-171

• Patrick Casement, Credo? Religion and Psychoanalysis. London: Aeon Books Ltd. 2020.

  David Morgan

  pp. 172-174

Israel/Palestine Forum

• Introductory Comments: Israel/Palestine Forum

  Amal Treacher Kabesh

  pp. 31-32

Treats and Treatments

• The Return of the (Foreclosed) Truth - Considerations on German Right-Wing Terror

  Lutz Goetzmann

  pp. 94-105

Cinema On The Couch

• The Feminine Body, Touch and Violence: A Reading of Shirin Neshat's Women Without Men (Zanan-e Bedun-e Mardan, 2009) and Claudia Llosa's The Milk of Sorrow (La teta asustada, 2009)

  Judith Rifeser

  pp. 134-148

Reviews

• Psychoanalytic and Historical Perspective on the Leadership of Donald Trump: Narcissism and Marketing in an Age of Anxiety and Distrust. edited by Michael Maccoby and Ken Fuchsman (New York: Routledge 2020).

  Neil McLaughlin

  pp. 166-170

Editorial

• Editors Lair 11-12

  Kurt Jacobsen & David Morgan

  pp. i

Democracy and Ambivalence

• Love the Leader, Hate the State: Narcissistic Protests Against Democratic Rule

  Barry Richards

  pp. 1-14

• Lying in Autocratic Society: A Challenge to Democracy

  Karl Figlio

  pp. 15-28

• The Disappointment of Democracy

  R. D. Hinshelwood

  pp. 28-37

• Ambivalence, Democracy & Disappointment

  Lord John Alderdice

  pp. 38-48

• Guattari and Us

  Ian Parker

  pp. 73-80

• Fine Lines in a Delicate Blur: Some Concerns about the Overlap of Poetry and Therapy

  Adam Shechter

  pp. 81-91

• The Crypt in Outer Space: Grief in Solaris

  Mark Holmwood

  pp. 98-111

Articles

• Bewildering Friends Who Voted for and Continue to Support Trump

  Richard E. Webb & Philip J. Rosenbaum

  pp. 49-72

Cinema On The Couch

• Room. Lenny Abrahamson. Co-production Ireland-Canada-United Kingdom; Film4 Productions/Irish Film Board/ Téléfilm Canada/Filmnation Entertainment/ Element Pictures /No Trace Camping, 2015; 118 min

  Ali Pajoohandeh

  pp. 92-97

Reviews

• Freida's Song, by Ellen Prentiss Campbell. Baltimore, Apprentice House Press, 2021

  Fran Bartkowski

  pp. 112-113

Editorial

• Editors Lair 13

  Kurt Jacobsen & David Morgan

  pp. i

Articles

• Illusions, Political Selves, and Responses to the Anthropocene Age: A Political-Psychoanalytic Perspective

  Ryan LaMothe

  pp. 1-18

• Karl Popper and Psychoanalysis Reconsidered

  Mehmet Levent Kayaalp

  pp. 19-29

• Psychoanalysis, Helplessness and Contemporary Violence

  Érico Bruno Viana Campos, Josiane Cristina Bocchi, Débora Regina Sertori & Ercílio Domingos Turato Junior

  pp. 30-42

• Vacillating Individuals, Vacillating Authorities in Pandemics: Considerations and Observations, Illustrated by a Franz Kafka parable and Abert Camus’ The Plague

  Sylvia Zwettler-Otte

  pp. 43-48

• Is Social Justice just an Obscure Object of Desire?

  John Alderdice

  pp. 52-55

• Is Social Justice Just an Obscure Object of Desire?

  Susie Orbach

  pp. 56-59

Is Social Justice Just an Obscure Object of Desire?

• The Obscure Object of Social Justice

  Ian Parker

  pp. 49-51

Cinema On The Couch

• Bringing to Light: Reflections upon the Cinematic Uncanny

  Allister Mactaggart

  pp. 60-77

Review Essay

• Review Essay: Fascism and Eluded Truth: Claudia Leeb, The Politics of Repressed Guilt: The Tragedy of Austrian Silence. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. Keith Kahn-Harris, Denial: The Unspeakable Truth. Mirefoot: Notting Hill Editions, 2018. Federico Finchelstein, A Brief History of Fascist Lies. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020.

  Joan Braune

  pp. 77-88

Reviews

• David P. Levine, Depending on Strangers: Freedom, Memory, and the Unknown Self

  Elliott Schwebach

  pp. 89-92

Editorial

• Editors' Lair 14

  Kurt Jacobsen & David Morgan

  pp. i