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"Callard's book is comprehensible and compelling; no academic philosopher writes better ... [but the] character of Socrates as Plato describes him is just exactly the opposite of what @AgnesCallard says he is"

re "Data is not narrative. Nobody absorbs it unless it's part of a big partisan story" generally speaking The Right Has A Sounder Political Psychology & A Superior Political Aesthetics everydayanalysis.co.uk/post/…

Socrates is Not Who Agnes Callard Wishes He Was by @CrispinSartwell link 👇 @AgnesCallard's "book is comprehensible and compelling; no academic philosopher writes better" ... but ... "Socrates is the very opposite of what Agnes Callard says he is"

I'm up at Everyday Analysis, with a piece on @AgnesCallard and Socrates. Maybe I'll be writing or co-writing one of their cool pamphlets too. everydayanalysis.co.uk/post/…

Proud to be a part of the @EDAnalysis2 fam!

Thanks to @EDAnalysis for including me in their excellent magazine. Psychological science deniers won't like it, but data is data and can't be straw-manned away. everydayanalysis.co.uk/post/…

LITTLE HANS PODCAST: EPISODE TWO tinyurl.com/littlehans Hans’ father had been corresponding with Freud for about a year before Hans' phobia emerged. This was part of Freud’s broader call for observational material on children to support his theories of infantile sexuality. Hans was very interested in “widdlers”, and enjoyed pointing them out at the zoo, humorously asking to draw a widdler on a giraffe that his father had sketched. Hans used widdlers to distinguish animate vs. inanimate beings, but he struggled to distinguish between men and women. He was particularly curious whether his mother had a widdler – a question Freud interpreted as evidence of castration anxiety and Oedipal desire. Lacan used this question to explore the concept of the maternal phallus and how children enter the symbolic realm through language, exchange, and desire. Hans was a joyful little boy, but shortly before his fifth birthday, a phobia of horses emerged; Hans is afraid to go into the street without his mother, and this fear crystallizes into a fear of being bitten by a horse. In the episode, we discuss Hans’ dreams of giraffes and their symbolic significance. Freud interpreted the giraffes as representations of oedipal rivalry, while Lacan saw them representing a movement from the imaginary to the symbolic. Alternatively, we consider whether the widdler is simply a narrative McGuffin—a seemingly meaningless yet essential object driving the narrative forward. In order for something to become a symbol (and circulate), must it be lost, stolen or exchanged? Hans predicament highlights the psychoanalytic transition into the social world that we all, inevitably, must pass through.

The Left's Disgust at Working-Class Taste by Alfie Bown w @SohrabAhmari @AntonJaegermm @Alex__1789 Bourdieu & more

Everyday Analysis is delighted to announce that we are hosting a NEW PODCAST SERIES, hosted by @drkatemerritt and Manuel Gabbert. It starts with a 5-part exploration into Freud's most fascinating case studie: the bizarre case of Little Hans. Enjoy! everydayanalysis.co.uk/post/…

The Left's Disgust at Working-Class Taste by Alfie Bown "Until the Left can … see its own taste as ideological and classist, there will be no hope for a workers party to develop out of the limping remains of its project" everydayanalysis.co.uk/post/…

Sort of think we are the best publisher - even though we only make little pamphlets for our reading group! everyday-analysis.sellfy.sto…

In the magazine - @hangingnoodles on the need for a new political aesthetics. everydayanalysis.co.uk/post/…

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In production now! Get yourselves a copy of this fantastic new pamphlet by @rafiazakaria! Feminist Fatwas traces how Muslim feminists are resisting misogynistic interpretations of the Quran. Order here! everyday-analysis.sellfy.sto…