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13: The Journalist and the Analyst: On Janet Malcolm feat. Sam Adler-Bell

Ordinary Unhappiness

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The Left's Reactionary Impulse

There does seem to be something about the reactionary impulse that is durable and familiar. It's a thing that seems to either reflect some kind of psychoanalytic understanding or in any event operationalize perennial concerns of psychoanalysis. Like the fascists or a certain type of reactionary mindset, they just go out and they'll let you name what they'll name the trauma for you. They'll give you someone to blame. Whereas like certain types of leftists politics might involve abiding with difference,.

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