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We can hardly be more pleased to lead off this issue with an interview with Juliet Mitchell. Read, enjoy and glean.
Ryan LaMothe embarks on another intellectual spelunking expedition into climate change politics through a careful psychoanalytic probe. Nancy Gerber illuminates at least one kind of a wounded psyche in a study of Louise Gluck's poetry. Seda Sahin Özyildirim reconsiders one of our least favorite biblical myths (a competitive category), the story of Abraham's aborted but willing enough sacrifice of his hapless son Isaac, with an eye to what it reveals about our conflicted inner worlds. Faisal Samadi extends Bion's theory, especially the Basic Assumptions, to contemporary whiffs of authoritarianism we are getting from seemingly every quarter. Great leaders indeed.
Jerome Braun then provides an interesting look back at major works of Lionel Trilling and Rollo May in the, roughly, Sixties era and notes how resonant their insightful concerns then are for us now. (The main difference between the periods for youth pretty much is student debt, and all its causes and consequences.) Mohajer, Mohajer and Zolnikof wonder about the psychiatric radiance of the wedding ring. Bob Hinshelwood adds a note on absurdity through a few tart observations on a master of the morass, Samuel Beckett. Finally, Barry Richards offers a sharp review of Hinshelwood's latest book, Unconscious Politics.