Outside the Castle / Inside the Unconscious
In Outside the Castle / Inside the Unconscious Howard Slater investigates aspects of The Castle by Franz Kafka. From Break/Flow 2, 1999.
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Psychoanalysis
Evacuate the Leftist Bunker
Exploring the “Rise of the Therapeutic” and Its Impact on Social Struggles
Issue No.18 of Here & Now tackles the decline of social struggles, attributing it in part to the growing influence of the “therapeutic” in modern society. Articles by Frank Dexter, John Barrett, and Mike Peters critically examine how therapy culture reinforces social control, suppresses agency, and distances individuals from collective action. The discussion extends into the political left, where an overemphasis on rationality and ideological purity weakens engagement with emotion and subjectivity. This provocative issue challenges readers to rethink autonomy, social transformation, and the evolving dynamics of resistance.
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Down with Childhood and Adulthood
This is a kindergarten they turn us into children and then tell us we must learn to fend for ourselves they diminish us and accuse us of lacking self-esteem they steal our dignity while offering admonitions of our failure to confront reality.
[Michael Moorcock, Mother London]