psychoanalysis Archives - The Other Journal

30: Authority

When I Believed in Belief

Melissa Knox reflects on psychoanalysis and the flawed lifeboat of belief.

25: Trauma

They Do Not Realize We Are Bringing Them the Plague

Theology is one of the ways in which we repress anxiety, and though repression often produces fictitious ideas that do not work, the anxiety it covers does not lie.

17: Economics

Bono’s Dream of Capitalism without Capital? Don’t You Dare Steal My Enjoyment!

Carl Raschke
February 24, 2010 / Theology

The current worldwide economic crisis and financial meltdown can be understood as the inherent result of globalized consumer capitalism, a “capitalism without capital,” which in the analysis of philosopher Slavoj ?i?ek, could lead to fascism.

10: Psychopathology

Choking on Christian Authenticity: Some Theological Predicaments in Light of Pharmacology, Hollywood Film, and Post-Freudian Therapeutics

Jason A. Mahn
December 3, 2007 / Theology

No other word gathers up in a single stitch the intrapsychic, the interpersonal, the moral, …