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Podcast | Christopher Bollas
Christopher Bollas
‘I was not there to alleviate their suffering. I was there to listen to them.’
Christopher Bollas on psychoanalysis, its relationship to literature, and whether it can speak to the great crises of our time.
Day Care
Nora Lange
‘Day care meant sick baby. And sick baby meant she had to skip work to care for sick baby, and entertain sick baby with bad mom art.’
A short story by Nora Lange.
Everyone Still Here
Liadan Ní Chuinn
‘Here he is, he thinks, the only fucker stupid enough to be here.’
Fiction by Liadan Ní Chuinn.
Year of the Rat
Harry Shukman
‘For a year, I was constantly frightened. It felt like there was an exclamation mark stamped onto my brain.’
Harry Shukman on his year undercover in British far right organisations.
Saraswati
Gurnaik Johal
‘Katrina and I had already agreed not to make eye contact during the woo-woo parts of the tour, so as not to break our cover as proper pilgrims.’
Fiction by Gurnaik Johal.
The Greatest Possible Good
Ben Brooks
‘In the photograph, the four Candlewicks are ankle-deep in rags of surf, spaced so far apart that they look like a band being shot for a magazine.’
Fiction by Ben Brooks.
Two Poems
Olive Franklin
‘Kill / a bit of time flicking your / wrist this way and that. / Roll over & dream / you’re a girl’
Two Poems by Olive Franklin.
Issey Miyake
Akshi Singh
‘The only thing I retained from Grose’s lecture about Lacanian psychoanalysis was a comment about clothes.’
Akshi Singh on clothes, fantasy and Issey Miyake.
The Animal Side of Life
Thomas Meaney
‘The subject of therapy in this issue is approached with our house prejudice: that of literature.’
The editor introduces the issue.
Good Medicine
Sheila Heti
‘Nobody could have convinced me that this was therapeutic.’
Sheila Heti on ketamine, DMT, and LSD therapy.
Two Poems
Natalie Shapero
‘We just have to make / small cuts here and there: the wattage / in the weight room’
Poetry by Natalie Shapero.
Transference in the Afternoon
Jesse Barron
Jesse Barron on the dissolution of a therapeutic relationship.
