Hannah Zeavin's Parapraxis in Vulture
Alex Colston, the 31-year-old deputy editor of Parapraxis, is training to become a clinical psychologist. The magazine’s founding editor, Hannah Zeavin, 32, is an author, professor, and historian of psychoanalysis.The two met on Twitter around 2020 and found themselves talking for hours about psychoanalysis — its institutional and theoretical failures, and what they see as its unmatched potential for helping people understand themselves and the world. They liked the idea of a publication where writers could imagine “a psychoanalysis for the 21st century,” as Zeavin put it. Zeavin and Colston have an ambivalent relationship to Freud, a man whose insights into ambivalence have permeated western thought and culture. His most fundamental observation is that behavior is governed by unconscious fears and fantasies.
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