His passion got him into scraps with the Paris Metro and numerous other bodies. Was it a social crutch? A Freudian response to his father? And why did he take such delight in writing to the Guardian ...
On the bank of the Jabbok River, in the dead of night, a man was left entirely alone. He wrestled until dawn. His hip was wrenched from its socket. Still, he did not let go. By morning he was limping, ...
David Hockney’s last self-portrait that went on show while he lived, in 2025’s Paris retrospective, has a Droste effect: the figure holds a picture in which the figure holds a picture. Between the ...
Like many Americans, I have been brushing up on my knowledge of the American Revolution in anticipation of this year’s Fourth of July. And, at the same time, I find myself comparing the Founders’ ...
Looking back through the archive of animated films that have graced our screens over the past twenty years, Coraline claims a spot in most top lists. The eerie, mysterious, psychological tale shone in ...
In "Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation," Ricœur uses psychoanalysis to suspect the self-transparency of consciousness. Humans do not fully know their own desires, fears, or repetitions.
The cultural and ideological battles raging around us do not exist in a vacuum, nor have they happened by accident. There are those who hate the West and want to destroy it and make it into their own ...
When I was in school I was getting disgusted with the attitude of art being so religious or sacred, so I wanted to make something which people could relate to without having read a book about it first ...