What I Want Versus What’s Expected Of Me
“In a nutshell, it all comes down to what I want versus what’s expected of me.” –Faye Miller to Don Draper Mad Men, “Christmas Comes But Once a Year” Originally aired on AMC, August 1, 2010 This quote...
View ArticleCan You Feel My Love Buzz?
I like my music loud and aggressive. It’s been that way since I fell in love with Guns N’ Roses in grade school. By no means have I outgrown my passion for rock n’ roll. My anger, as with the...
View ArticleApocalypse Film Theory
World War Z hit theaters last week. It’s another in a long list of recent films focusing on the apocalypse. Why the appeal of these end-of-the-world narratives? Here are a few possibilities: Apocalypse...
View ArticleDon’t Be Cruel
The other night I had a dream worthy of some Freudian analysis. A figure outside myself but clearly a part of my psyche asked me a question: Why be kind? Why be kind when the world is full of cruelty?...
View ArticleWhen You’re Downtown
UNION STATION We meet one day after a long Chicago winter in the rush of Union Station. She finds me as I am, nervous at a corner table practicing my first impression. I shake her hand, enjoy the way...
View ArticleMourning Sickness
In 1917 Freud wrote his influential “Mourning and Melancholia” essay in which he compares the process of mourning a loved one versus the persistent sadness involved in depression. When a loved one dies...
View ArticleRules Of The Load
Depending on the way it is used and its particular features . . . the motorcar may equally well be invested either with the meaning of power or with the meaning of refuge: it may be a projectile or a...
View ArticleVoice Recognition
A young psychoanalyst named Fliess once asked Freud how a therapist knows when a patient has been cured. When the patient realizes therapy never ends, Freud said. I’ve been thinking about taking a...
View ArticleCore Beliefs
Core Beliefs my therapist says overthinking can be a defense mechanism overthinking can be a defense mechanism overthinking can be an unfenced metaphorical prison it’s not my fault my therapist says...
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