ALT Grid of first four covers of Parapraxis issues

ALT Parapraxis . Dear readers of Parapraxis, We live in a century wracked by real and ongoing crises: endless political tumult, mass death, the uneasiness of social life, the uncertainty of the future and climate anxiety, the specter of personal immiseration and loneliness—to say nothing of the comparatively mundane difficulties of love and work. What makes these difficulties especially fraught is that they are not just facts or realities existing somewhere out there, but they are lived realities—and each of us live them alone and together. Given these crises of social, political, and psychological reality, Parapraxis wants to meet the demand to develop a psychoanalysis that the 21st century deserves and, in fact, desperately needs.

ALT To that end, just two years ago today, we unveiled our website. We announced that, despite having too many issues already, we were making a magazine of and for psychoanalysis. Starting with just eight essays and a pre-order link for what would be Issue 01: The Family Problem, two years later, we’ve published four issues, with two more on the way: one, a fundraiser on and for Palestine, and one on Economies. This is to say nothing of the dozens of web-only pieces we’ve published since 2022. We’ve featured writers such as Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Thomas Ogden, Yasmin El-Rifae, Eugenie Brinkema, hannah baer, Joy James, and many others—with work on wishing, repair and its impossibilities, security and its discontents, and on an on. In parallel, our editors have held extra-academic seminars on these topics for the public, always available for free, for thousands of students since our inception.

ALT This is to say, we’ve been busy, and we need your help. Parapraxis has grown so much, thanks to you, our unflagging readers, our brilliant writers, and crucially, the dedicated team of all-volunteer editors and designers who make Parapraxis what it is. As we enter our third year, with issues and seminars planned on Resistance (Spring) and Romance (Fall), we’re appealing to you to help us keep going. Parapraxis is subscriber supported; our survival has been a wish fulfilled by you. We have no development person, no interns, no one to focus on PR or advertisements, no one to engage bookstores, no distributor. Our growth has made us something of an oddity: we like to joke that we’re still run like a zine, still distributed by hand, but with a glossy magazine’s exterior. At the same time, we know that we publish has an indispensable place in today’s discourse. Still, our growth as a magazine and foundation has taxed our minimal reserves. We need funding yesterday.