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Her novel Repetition is an attempt to live with the weight of the past.

Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death posited that we act out in antisocial ways—and even embrace authoritarians—because we cannot face our own unavoidable demise.

The case of Anna O. showed that psychoanalysis worked. Did Freud tamper with it?

Danger surrounded Freud in Nazi-occupied Austria. Why did it take him so long to see it?

In the pandemic, reports of rat sightings have risen dramatically. But is it all in our heads?

The current panic about urban decay and disorder is classic displacement.

The president is taking conservative media to its evolutionary endpoint. Is there any way to stop him?

Fact-checkers can't show us the real authoritarian danger posed by our dissembling president-elect.