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Organisations of the year
ELT/SLA publications of the year
Films & series
Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time
Music
Books
Elizabeth MacNeal, The Doll Factory
The sweet scene from Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow can be enjoyed here.
Joan Copjec, Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists
In our bit on Freud, I mentioned this book
Norman O’Brown (1985) Life Against Death. He takes ‘repression’ as Freud’s key constrct and suggests that Freud’s pessimism can only be overcome by taking a more historical – Marxist – perspective. There are some good comments on Amazon here: //www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Against-Death-Psychoanalytical-Meaning/dp/0819561444/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=life+against+death&qid=1577812814&sr=8-1