New Books in Psychoanalysis

Marshall Poe

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Sep 21, 2026 • 1h 3min

Galit Atlas, "Come Closer: Childhood Wounds, Adult Love, And The Secrets of Emotional Intimacy" (Simon & Schuster, 2026)

Galit Atlas is a New York psychoanalyst, educator, and author of The Enigma of Desire and Emotional Inheritance. She discusses Come Closer, her exploration of six childhood wounds and their echoes in adult love. Topics include internal children, sexuality and liberation, grief, guilt, invisibility, being chosen, ethical clinical storytelling, and how psychoanalysis can illuminate recurring relationship patterns.
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Sep 17, 2026 • 47min

Sarah Meehan O'Callaghan, "Psychoanalysing Mind-Body Narratives Through Beckett and Artaud: The Trauma of the Body" (Routledge, 2026)

Sarah Meehan O’Callaghan, an independent scholar, editor, and writer specializing in Lacanian psychoanalysis, explores how embodiment shapes subjectivity. She discusses why mind-body narratives resist simple explanations, how language marks and “colonizes” the body, and the traumatic contingency of illness, disability, and pain. Beckett, Artaud, clinical uncertainty, disability studies, desire, and the structural absence in Waiting for Godot all come under scrutiny.
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Sep 11, 2026 • 51min

Ryan Engley, "Seriality: Media and the Psychic Form of Everyday Life" Part 2 (Bloomsbury, 2026)

Ryan Engley, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College and co-host of Why Theory, returns to explore seriality as both a media structure and psychic form. They discuss fantasies of originality, gaps in knowledge, memory and retroactive interpretation, the meaning of middles, and our ambivalent connection to systems. Binge-watching and David Lynch’s Inland Empire round out the conversation.
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Sep 7, 2026 • 52min

Rachel Aviv, "You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters" (Knopf, 2026)

Rachel Aviv, a New Yorker staff writer and author of Strangers to Ourselves, discusses her new collection on mothers and daughters. She explores psychosis, family memory, dissociative fugues, migrant nannies, and the ethical boundary between journalism and therapy. The conversation also examines Elizabeth Loftus’s memory research, Alice Munro’s complicated legacy, and how family stories are shaped by recognition, concealment, and absence.
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Aug 23, 2026 • 1h 25min

Ryan Engley, "Seriality: Media and the Psychic Form of Everyday Life" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

Ryan Engley, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College and author of Seriality, explores how serial forms in media shape psychic life. He traces seriality from Dickens and Freud to TV and clinical practice. Short takes cover Hegelian retroactivity, Sartre’s critique, the clinical ‘‘cliffhanger,’’ and why connection, not fragmentation, defines contemporary subjectivity.
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Aug 14, 2026 • 1h 8min

Mark Solms, "The Only Cure: Freud and the Neuroscience of Mental Healing" (Pegasus, 2026)

Mark Solms, neuroscientist who pioneered neuropsychoanalysis, explains how Freudian ideas map onto modern brain science. He discusses dreaming versus REM, dreams driven by reward systems, repression as a neuropsychological process, and why subjective feelings matter for healing. He also argues for integrating psychoanalytic insights with other therapies and neuroscience.
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Jul 25, 2026 • 1h 11min

Todd McGowan, "Self-Sabotage: How We Try Not to Flourish" (Polity Press, 2026)

Todd McGowan, a professor of theory and film and author on philosophy and film, discusses his book on the idea that an unconscious impulse to undermine our own interests shapes much of life. He explores how self-sabotage affects love, politics, addiction, creativity, and why sacrificing ourselves can feel meaningful. Conversations touch on cinema, Lacan and Freud, and how recognizing sabotage can foster empathy.
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Jul 24, 2026 • 59min

Barbara Holifield, "Being with the Body in Depth Psychology: Development, Trauma, and Transformation in the Unspoken Realm" (Routledge, 2024)

Barbara Holifield, Jungian analyst and somatic psychotherapist with 40+ years of practice, explores how the body shapes psyche, development, and trauma. She traces her somatic lineage, discusses therapist embodiment and countertransference, and explains group movement, poetry, and relational approaches that reconnect felt sensation and symbol to foster transformation.
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Jul 11, 2026 • 53min

M. Guy Thompson, "Existential Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction" (Routledge, 2025)

Michael Guy Thompson, founder of the New School for Existential Psychoanalysis and author, discusses blending existential philosophy with psychoanalytic practice. He explores authenticity, the analyst’s character, freedom, suffering, and how thinkers from Sartre to Winnicott inform clinical work. Short, clear takes on presence, honesty, and what it means to practice an existentially minded psychoanalysis.
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Jul 8, 2026 • 59min

Psychoanalysis and Jewish Languages

Ken Frieden, a Judaic studies scholar and translator expert, and Naomi Seidman, a historian of Jewish culture and translator of Freud, discuss how Hebrew and Yiddish translations seek to 'touch' Freud. They trace reception histories, jokes and language traces, translation choices that reshape psychoanalysis, and the cultural drive to reclaim famous Jews through Jewish languages.

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