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The Dishonest Images of the Anti-Abortion Movement

Anti-abortion activists don’t seem to care about what a fetus actually looks like

June 27, 2019 • by Laura Hooberman

The advertisement incorporates a number of visual and discursive strategies commonly deployed by abortion rights opponents. It relies, for instance, on oversimplified and misleading rhetoric as the vehicle for its messaging, a tactic identifiable across the spectrum of anti-abortion propaganda. According to the Guttmacher Institute, a fetus is incapable of feeling ...

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Transsexuality as an Emotional Situation, Aesthetics and a State of Mind

A question of difference.

June 27, 2019 • by Oren Gozlan

--- The problem of sexual difference is, for obvious reasons, of paramount importance in the field of Trans Studies. Historically, the psychoanalytic clinic has leaned on the symbolic oppositions between phallic/castrated, masculine/feminine, and absence/presence in understanding sexual difference. Patricia Gherovici’s recent book “Transgender Psychoanalysis” speaks to the new generation of people ...

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Transgender Psychoanalysis

Lacan, sex, and sinthomes

June 26, 2019 • by Sheila L. Cavanagh

--- On April 20, 2016, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek described “transgenderism” as an attempt to undermine sexual difference. In other words, he contended that transpeople are reducing what is, for Lacanian psychoanalysis, an unavoidable sexual impasse to an identity-based human rights discourse (that fits nicely into the neo-liberal capitalist order).[i] He suggested that ...

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Being Against Biden

It is important to oppose him without demonizing him

June 25, 2019 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

Everything that has happened since his entry has confirmed this judgment. On the one hand, Biden has tripped over a series of hot-button issues -- #MeToo, the Hyde Amendment, and now racially coded language -- with his unique combination of tone deafness and stubborn self-righteousness. On the other hand, he ...

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Matters of Life and Sex

Trans-ing Psychoanalysis

June 25, 2019 • by Patricia Gherovici

In 2010, feeling the need to reflect upon the lessons I learned from my practice, I wrote a book about patients who identified as transgender entitled Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism. This book summarized my experience during a time of reform that ...

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Shakespeare on Helicopter Parenting

‘And so shall starve with feeding’

June 22, 2019 • by Luke Williams

Minor disagreements have been overshadowed by common findings; first, helicopter parenting is hyper-present, characterized by abundant parental support but only to craft a child's behavior and public image. And second, helicopter parenting hinders the child's ability to develop an autonomous character -- the ability to make critical, life-changing decisions, more ...

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Networking and Human Nature

A Lesson in Socializing Under the Rules of 21st Century Capitalism

June 22, 2019 • by Patrick Sheehan

A Lesson in Socializing Under the Rules of 21st Century Capitalism...

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How Stories Knock on the Inside of My Head

An interview with Alice Barber

June 21, 2019 • by Josh Maserow and Alice Barber

--- Public Seminar [PS]: Thank you for this wonderful, literary meditation on your therapeutic work. I was immediately struck by the gentleness and vulnerability of the voice and language you found to write about such delicate subject matter – childhood abuse, trauma, neglect, loss and environmental alienation. Can you remark on ...

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An Unexpected Concertmaster

How Shakespeare Influenced the Romantic Era

June 20, 2019 • by Max Serrano-Wu

You thought Shakespeare was all about the language? Not according to the scholars who estimate there are over 20,000 Shakespeare-inspired pieces of classical music! During the Romantic Era, composers such as Johannes Brahms, Giuseppe Verdi, and Antonín Dvořák drew inspiration from tragedies like Hamlet, Macbeth, and Othello. They gravitated to ...

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Blue Butterfly Open

An Excerpt

June 20, 2019 • by Alice Barber

--- This is a story about two photographs, both of butterflies. What you need to know about the first photograph is that it was never an actual photograph, although I wished it so. What you need to know about the second photograph is that it is not from my camera, and ...

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An Open Letter to My Best Friend About Abortion

I am not writing you this letter to change your mind.

June 19, 2019 • by Hannah Leffingwell

I don’t remember when I first realized I was “pro-choice” and you were “pro-life.” It’s not a discussion we ever had. We grew up in the same Colorado suburb, only a few blocks away from each other. In kindergarten, we started playing together. I like to think we became friends for ...