Repetition Compulsion: America’s Gun Ritual
In a quiet Minneapolis church, children bowed their heads in prayer. By the time they lifted them, two were dead and seventeen wounded. Annunciation Catholic Church joins America’s grim roll call of mass shootings—a list so long it numbs more than it shocks. This was the 286th in 2025 alone.
An Analyst Does Yoga
Warrior two is a strong, balanced, yet flexible pose–a neutral stance, grounded to reality, allowing for grace.
I first need to root down but not be locked in. I must be able to straighten and bend. By imagining that I am pulling my feet toward each other, I enter the isometric, generating force while remaining still. Ideally, I become immovable in the face of distractions. With my arms I reach in both directions and encompass. I face forward but bend backward to be greeted by a heart-opening surprise.
W. H. Auden on Sigmund Freud: A Eulogy and a Warning
W. H. Auden’s 1938 poem, “In Memory of Sigmund Freud,” takes on renewed relevance today. He extolls Freud as “no more a person now but a whole climate of opinion.” Yet he also warns that this “climate” is vulnerable to powerful interests who see it as a threat.