Parapraxis Issue 01: The Family Problem
The first myth Freud sought to dismantle was that of the wholesome family. Yet a hundred and some years later, Freud’s family and other figments still agitate us. We truly can’t seem to live with the family real and imagined, and equally, we can’t yet live without it. Our first issue is on this thorniest of thickets. From the clinic’s conflicts to social and political critique to literary and aesthetic criticism, we have given the family the psychoanalytic treatment, as but one step toward curing ourselves of its compromised form.
The anatomy of gender panics. The delusion of elder care. Fascist feminism. Sitcoms and sex. Psychoanalysis so interminable the analyst can’t terminate. Mothering beyond motherhood. Revisiting Juliet Mitchell and mourning Sara Suleri. An Interview with Dorothy Roberts. Features by Max Fox, Joy James, Rachel Greenspan, and others.
There will, as always, be more forms and symptoms to treat. This is simply our beginning.
The first myth Freud sought to dismantle was that of the wholesome family. Yet a hundred and some years later, Freud’s family and other figments still agitate us. We truly can’t seem to live with the family real and imagined, and equally, we can’t yet live without it. Our first issue is on this thorniest of thickets. From the clinic’s conflicts to social and political critique to literary and aesthetic criticism, we have given the family the psychoanalytic treatment, as but one step toward curing ourselves of its compromised form.
The anatomy of gender panics. The delusion of elder care. Fascist feminism. Sitcoms and sex. Psychoanalysis so interminable the analyst can’t terminate. Mothering beyond motherhood. Revisiting Juliet Mitchell and mourning Sara Suleri. An Interview with Dorothy Roberts. Features by Max Fox, Joy James, Rachel Greenspan, and others.
There will, as always, be more forms and symptoms to treat. This is simply our beginning.
The first myth Freud sought to dismantle was that of the wholesome family. Yet a hundred and some years later, Freud’s family and other figments still agitate us. We truly can’t seem to live with the family real and imagined, and equally, we can’t yet live without it. Our first issue is on this thorniest of thickets. From the clinic’s conflicts to social and political critique to literary and aesthetic criticism, we have given the family the psychoanalytic treatment, as but one step toward curing ourselves of its compromised form.
The anatomy of gender panics. The delusion of elder care. Fascist feminism. Sitcoms and sex. Psychoanalysis so interminable the analyst can’t terminate. Mothering beyond motherhood. Revisiting Juliet Mitchell and mourning Sara Suleri. An Interview with Dorothy Roberts. Features by Max Fox, Joy James, Rachel Greenspan, and others.
There will, as always, be more forms and symptoms to treat. This is simply our beginning.