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

Ordinary Unhappiness

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Janet Malcolm on the History of the Right Wing Intellectuals

One of the things that both Patrick and I really appreciate about know your enemy is the attention to intellectual biography. And we've come a long way since the heyday of Lash and Rief and other conservative Freudians, who we have not given a lot of airtime to on ordinary unhappiness. But our present moment seems to both offer a lot of case studies of reactionary politics as expressions of recognizably Freudian impulses.

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