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  • Essay:

    The Mother’s Rage: Elena Ferrante and the Torment of Maternal Love

    March 15, 2023

    For many years, it seemed as though every colleague, student, or friend was urging me to read Elena Ferrante.

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  • Essay:

    The Politics of Anger: Putin and the Psychology of Rage

    October 24, 2022

    It’s just gone 7 a.m.in my consulting room. I’m staring into the thin powder blue of the early March sky as the day’s first patient readies himself on the couch. I look over, notice the taut knotting of his brow, the tight squeeze of his lowered eye­lids, and feel the air between us thicken.

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    Josh Cohen in Conversation with Akshi Singh

    January 6, 2022

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    Losers: Josh Cohen in Conversation with Adam Phillips

    January 1, 2022

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  • Essay:

    The perfectionism trap

    August 21, 2021

    As a young university lecturer two decades ago, I taught a course on 19th-century American literature. Though I loved the period, my students were less enamoured.

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    Loneliness and Psychoanalysis: Josh Cohen and Jamieson Webster

    March 4, 2021

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  • Essay:

    Lazy Boy

    February 14, 2019

    For two years my daydreams had been haunted by an image, more accurately a GIF, looping on the inside wall of my skull.

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  • Essay:

    The incurious rabbit

    December 5, 2016

    Years ago, for a few wintry months before he lost his head to a fox, I was lumbered with the daily care of a rabbit named Rr.

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