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Two Poems
Espen Stueland
‘I / had to trust That what I was witnessing was not / a destruction That everything I had / done could be reshuffled’
Two poems by Espen Stueland, translated by Ingvild Burkey.
Three Stories
Dag Solstad
‘When Agnar Berger unlocks his car door and climbs in, it’s like crawling into some part of himself.’
Three stories by Dag Solstad, translated by Damion Searls.
Melanie Klein Among the U-Boats
Ben Parker
‘Whenever Richard mentioned Hitler, Klein unwaveringly substituted “Hitler” with “penis”.’
Ben Parker on Melanie Klein and child psychology.
Lacan in Tirana
Ardian Vehbiu
‘Psychoanalysis never truly took root in Albania during the early decades of the twentieth century and, after the communist takeover in 1944, it was actively suppressed by the regime.’
Ardian Vehbiu on Jacques Lacan’s visit to Albania.
Punished and Pure
Brodie Crellin
‘Even in his forties Robin still struggled to ask for what he wanted – to be safely degraded – and he was grateful to the men who had known how to give him what he needed.’
Fiction by Brodie Crellin.
Therapy as Re-Reading
Claudia Grigg Edo
‘What if a new interpretation endangers the self that produced it?’
Claudia Grigg Edo on therapy as re-reading.
The Narcissus Complex
Daisy Rockwell
‘What a great burden it was to be the artist son of a famous artist father.’
Daisy Rockwell on her father, painting, and her family’s psychoanalytic history.
The Magic Pass
Analía Couceyro
‘Eight times, I have tried to overcome my deep-seated terror of psychoanalysis, and each time I have failed, more or less spectacularly.’
Analía Couceyro on her fear of therapy.
Podcast | Olga Ravn
Olga Ravn
'Intelligence and consciousness are two very different things.'
Olga Ravn on technology, its relationship with humanity, and Tove Ditlevsen's influence.
Independent People?
Thomas Meaney
‘What sets Scandinavian literature apart from the rest of European literature? Why, at its best, does its fiction seem to pack in more force, pound for pound?’
The editor introduces the issue.
The High Priestess
Olga Ravn
‘As a child, to the puzzlement of those around me, I developed an interest in tarot cards.’
A new story by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken.
Six Stories
Helle Helle
‘The boy threw himself to the ground, his parents called for him to come. He didn’t move. They began to walk away, without looking back.’
Six short stories by Helle Helle, translated by Martin Aitken.
