Daily Archives: April 5, 2021

Why Elites Lie (4-5-21)

Posted on April 5, 2021 by Luke Ford

00:00 Why experts lie, https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/yes-experts-will-lie-to-you-sometimes 25:00 Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=130403 59:00 Holocaust denier Alison Chabloz jailed over a song, https://eurojewcong.org/news/communities-news/united-kingdom/holocaust-denier-alison-chabloz-jailed-over-barrage-of-antisemitic-abuse/ 1:00:00 Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942, https://www.amazon.com/Pacific-Crucible-War-Sea-1941-1942/dp/0393343413 1:05:00 The … Continue reading →

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Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession

Posted on April 5, 2021 by Luke Ford

Janet Malcolm writes in this 1982 book: * THE PHENOMENON OF TRANSFERENCE—HOW WE ALL INVENT each other according to early blueprints—was Freud’s most original and radical discovery. The idea of infant sexuality and of the Oedipus complex can be accepted … Continue reading →

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The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

Posted on April 5, 2021 by Luke Ford

Janet Malcolm writes in this 1995 book: * Strangers who Hughes feels know nothing about his marriage to Plath write about it with proprietary authority. “I hope each of us owns the facts of her or his own life,” Hughes … Continue reading →

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