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04: Guess Who’s Back, Back Again (It’s Freud) feat. Hannah Zeavin and Alex Colston

Ordinary Unhappiness

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The Classic Shrink Kid

I am a classic shrink kid. I grew up at the adult end of the dinner table with adults some of whom were child analysts. My parents are analysts as are most of their friends. And didn't really care personally like the same way you can inherit a parental religion and kind of end up an atheist. But then that changed and it changed in that kind of classic object-refound rediscovery that Freud himself describes. He was looking as one of these historians who needed to describe that that shift between the personal register and the political registerLooking at Vietnam more veterans returning home from the war who are making artworks when the VA couldn't see them in treatment.

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