Freud’s views on the nature of affect and the implications of Damasio’s view of the body/brain relation for this aspect of psychoanalysis.
Freud, Terrorism and Rhetoric: A Preliminary Discussion
The suggestion that “the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 and ensuing attacks around the world including Bali, Madrid, Mumbai and London show just how right Freud was about our malaise” is shown to exist within a discourse that is terrorist itself.
Guilt Revisited
I was reading my colleague Lynne Holdem’s Blog on guilt and forgiveness this afternoon and as Lynne referred to a conversation we had a couple of years ago I thought I would comment. As it happens I had been reading the first chapter of Roy Schafer’s book “Bad Feelings” (2002) and also a paper by […]