PSYCHOANALYSIS DISPATCH #3
Dispatch #3 is one of our closest encounters with Freud and Psychoanalytic theory’s relationship with the literary, though all of these encounters turn Freud and our conceptions of psychoanalysis on its head, grappling in the recesses of the unknown. Ruby Eastwood’s narrative poem, Wien IX, Bergasse 19, comically marks the moment where scholar and poet H.D travelled to Vienna to meet Sigmund Freud, hoping to gain a deeper understanding of her bisexuality and trauma, despite Freud refusing to treat her due to her resistance to fall in love with him. It also marks the early days of psychoanalysis, and H.D’s enthralment of its ideas before it was mired by the associations we hold of it now. Enya Ettershank interviews Katherine Angel about the book she is writing, Poor Freud, and her own fascination with psychoanalysis’ founder. Melissa Lee-Houghton brings us two poems from her new book, Exposure/Ideal Palace, which wields psychoanalysis, desire, science and history into a radical dream landscape. Ted Simonds chews over life through writing, marking its difference of clarity compared to thinking, leaning on the archives of Lauren Berlant, Eve Sedgwick, Sara Ahmed and more.
WIEN IX, BERGASSE 19
#3: WIEN IX, BERGASSE 19 by Ruby Eastwood
Katherine Angel Adventures into the Unknown
#3: Enya Ettershank talks to writer and psychoanalyst in training Katherine Angel about her upcoming book Poor Freud, the mythology and uncertainty of understanding the self through both writing and analysis and meeting our most vulnerable parts.
Writing is a Perfect Mouth
#3: Ted Simonds chews over life through writing and the archives of those who also think through the toolbox of academic writing.
Two Poems
#3: Two Poems by Melissa Lee-Houghton
Again-off
#2: Again-Off by Misha Honcharenko
Fariha Róisín on Showing us what Resilience Looks Like
#2: Caitlin McLoughlin talks to Fariha Róisín about her expansive writing practice and finding hope in the midst of despair.
All Freud’s Children with HannaH Zeavin
#2: Enya Ettershank interviews scholar, editor and writer Hannah Zeavin whose work focuses on the history of psychoanalysis, psychiatry and psychology.
THERE IS NO PERFECT SOLIDARITY
#2: An imperfect personal manifesto on love in a time of genocide, written when I couldn’t sleep. This was originally written for a broadcast on No Bounds Radio in February 2024 on the theme of ‘devotion’.
LIBERTY MY ONLY PIRATE WATER: A SESTINA
#1: Liberty My Only Pirate Water: A Sestina by Phoenix Yemi
Rays of Relation: Maggie Nelson in Conversation
#1: Caitlin McLoughlin talks to the author of The Argonauts and On Freedom about her new book Like Love, the complexities and misinterpretations of shame and taking risks.
Facing The Unknowable With Heather McCalden
#1: P. Eldridge speaks with Heather McCalden about her groundbreaking debut novel, The Observable Universe; discussing metaphors, grief, and how words make the world more observable.
Stories of Space
#1: Clem MacLeod and Lauren Elkin discuss the research and writing of Elkin’s complex Lacanian love story Scaffolding.
American Genius, A Comedy by Lynne Tillman
#1: Opening pages from: American Genius, A Comedy by Lynne Tillman