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Still some places left to see the LONDON launch of @SohrabAhmari's pamphlet SAVING GENITALITY @verdur_in. Join us- verdur.in/event/the-genital-… Order a pamphlet if you can't make it - everydayanalysis.co.uk/

Very excited to announce! The next essay, by the brilliant @SohrabAhmari. What were the original heteronormative Freudians right about after all..... London event info later...! Check it out: everydayanalysis.co.uk

NEW PAMPHLET Available now to anywhere in the world - CONFESSIONS OF A CLASS REDUCTIONIST by the brilliant @BenBurgis. everyday-analysis.sellfy.sto… London launch November 7th - details below.

he latest Everyday Analysis podcast on HEGEL, SPACE and POLITICS with Helen Rollins and @katherineveritt . Listen on the Everyday Analysis YouTube channel. youtube.com/watch?v=Rx0MpGn6…

From the latest Everyday Analysis podcast on HEGEL, SPACE and POLITICS with Helen Rollins and Katherine Everitt. Listen on the Everyday Analysis YouTube channel. And follow @katherineveritt! youtube.com/watch?v=Rx0MpGn6…

In new podcast for Everyday Analysis, Helen Rollins and @katherineveritt talk about Hegel's concepts of space, and how this relates to questions of the political - and of emancipation - today. youtube.com/watch?v=Rx0MpGn6…\ Extra stuff on Patreon: patreon.com/posts/129680128?…

You can sign up for our 3-part course on Freud and Lacan - RESPONDING TO LACK: NEUROSIS, PERVERSION, PSYCHOSIS - online. We taught the course in person in Belfast last month and it was great fun, so we will look forward to doing it with some of you as well. everyday-analysis.sellfy.sto…

Great to see these out in the wild, by the award-winning @rafiazakaria! Get yourself a copy to anywhere in the world here: everyday-analysis.sellfy.sto…

LITTLE HANS PODCAST: EPISODE TWO tinyurl.com/littlehans Hans’ father had been corresponding with Freud for about a year before Hans' phobia emerged. This was part of Freud’s broader call for observational material on children to support his theories of infantile sexuality. Hans was very interested in “widdlers”, and enjoyed pointing them out at the zoo, humorously asking to draw a widdler on a giraffe that his father had sketched. Hans used widdlers to distinguish animate vs. inanimate beings, but he struggled to distinguish between men and women. He was particularly curious whether his mother had a widdler – a question Freud interpreted as evidence of castration anxiety and Oedipal desire. Lacan used this question to explore the concept of the maternal phallus and how children enter the symbolic realm through language, exchange, and desire. Hans was a joyful little boy, but shortly before his fifth birthday, a phobia of horses emerged; Hans is afraid to go into the street without his mother, and this fear crystallizes into a fear of being bitten by a horse. In the episode, we discuss Hans’ dreams of giraffes and their symbolic significance. Freud interpreted the giraffes as representations of oedipal rivalry, while Lacan saw them representing a movement from the imaginary to the symbolic. Alternatively, we consider whether the widdler is simply a narrative McGuffin—a seemingly meaningless yet essential object driving the narrative forward. In order for something to become a symbol (and circulate), must it be lost, stolen or exchanged? Hans predicament highlights the psychoanalytic transition into the social world that we all, inevitably, must pass through.

Sort of think we are the best publisher - even though we only make little pamphlets for our reading group! everyday-analysis.sellfy.sto…