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These days, not surprisingly, even our miscellany issues tend toward trenchant analyses of authoritarian behaviour. What the superego, and contending formulations of it, have to do with generating authoritarianism is Christine Ury's urgent concern. What is the edgy allure of the superego. and where, in any given instance, should the fault line be drawn between the superego's beneficial and diabolical effects? “Psychoanalysis does not stand outside this fault line,” Ury argues, we think, cogently, “neither the subject nor the analyst nor theory is exempt from the pleasures of certainty, of purity, of punishment.” Judith Hughes follows with a deft chronicling of the latest episodes in the relentless sinister strivings by ICE agents, and their MAGA cheerleaders, to reincarnate the Freikorps in the thoroughly Trumped modern day USA.
Matters lighten a bit with Rhett-Lawson Mohajer and Tara Zolnikov's Jungian contribution on the healing impact of music, which we all can appreciate according to our tastes. Claudia Fuoertes finds plenty of interesting material in her (mostly) Kleinian take on gender reveal parties which – who knew? – are just as fraught when addressed to newborns as they are for adults coming out. Get your pronouns in order, kid. Phil McEvoy conducts a deep probe into asymmetric dependence, especially regarding Alzheimer patients, in the care fields. Anderson de Souza Sant'Anna and Jaqueline Ferreira follow with a Lacanian look at the apparently irrepressible manipulative and dominating bent of the average manager. We grant this is not exactly news. You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, but every theoretical perspective has something to add to understanding our daily reckonings with wielders of authority.
In our Cinema on the Couch section, Jerry Piven has the wit, curiosity and psychoanalytical aplomb to explain why Barbie the Movie is well worth another furtive glance. Finally, Mustafa Selek delivers a rapier thrust to the bubble of