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☆ New sculpture of late Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip – plus corgis – divides opinion
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-11 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A newly unveiled sculpture of Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip and two corgis in Northern Ireland, intended to pay tribute to the late monarch, has received somewhat mixed reviews from the public. The sculpture was unveiled in Antrim Castle Gardens on September 6. Antrim Castle Gardens“Could be anyone,” wrote one commenter on a Facebook post from the council announcing the work’s unveiling. The sculpture, among the first work commemorating the late Queen in the United Kingdom, was created by artist Anto Brennan as a commission from Antrim and Newtonabbey Borough Council. It was installed in Antrim Castle Gardens, about 19 miles (30 kilometers) north of Belfast, and unveiled on Friday.

Persons: Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, Queen “, ”, Cristiano Ronaldo, “, Anto Brennan, Elizabeth, Philip, Prince Philip , Duke of Edinburgh, Brennan, Catherine , Princess, King Charles III, Lucian Freud Organizations: CNN, Antrim Castle Gardens, corgi, ” CNN, Tatler Locations: Northern Ireland, Antrim Castle, Antrim, United Kingdom, Newtonabbey, Belfast, Wales

☆ ‘The Whole World Smiles With You’ challenges the boundaries of Black art
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

“These were the images that were easy for the art world to engage with. Akinkugbe hopes the exhibition shows the "sprawling" nature of Black figurative art. Courtesy Opera GalleryWhile public and institutional interest in Black art has been increasing steadily since 2008, attention and engagement is often inextricably linked to the news cycle. “I do think that in the art world, there was a huge reaction to 2020. “I think it could broaden someone’s idea of what Black art is.

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☆ If you're not making progress in therapy, you might be intellectualizing your emotions. Here are 3 signs, according to a therapist.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Kim Schewitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

You might fixate on understanding why you're feeling this way, why the upsetting situation has occurred, and what you can rationally do to resolve it. AdvertisementShe shared three signs that you might be intellectualizing your feelings and how you can start to feel safe enough to feel them. The goal of therapy should be to support when you're feeling safe enough that you want to feel your feelings." You feel emotionally disconnected from people and things in your lifeFeeling a sense of emptiness or disconnection could be a sign you're intellectualizing your feelings. You're responding normally but you don't feel fully authentic or present because you're thinking too much and you're "stuck in your head."

Persons: —, Trisha Wolfe, Wolfe, they've, They'll, I'm, Intellectualizing Organizations: Service, Business, Systems Locations: Michigan, intellectualizing

☆ Opinion: The male drivers who just can’t let go of their stick shift
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Opinion Paul Hockenos | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Berlin CNN —For old-school connoisseurs of the automobile — usually men — driving means operating a beloved vehicle by touch, with three pedals underfoot and a shift stick at hand. Paul Hockenos Hayyan Al-YousoufIn Europe, this clientele is responsible for a good deal of the moaning about manual transmission’s demise. Well, Zen or not, the day of manual transmissions is speeding to an end — and this layman is shedding no tears. For one, the oft-repeated benefits of a stick shift over an automatic have been redundant now for years. The explanation: automatics select the right gear for the vehicle, usually the highest gear possible.

Persons: Paul Hockenos, ”, Paul Hockenos Hayyan, Mercedes Benz, upshift, ’ ”, Sigmund Freud, it’s, Robert M, It’s, —, “, Cristine Organizations: CNN, Berlin CNN, Porsche, BMW, Volkswagen, Swiss, Neue Zürcher, Art, Environmental Protection Agency, International Energy Agency, Toyota Locations: Berlin, Europe, New Berlin, Yousouf, Germany, New York, San Francisco, Oslo, Norway

☆ Check out some of the art masterpieces in the record $300 million gift to a US university
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

An art collector donated the largest art gift ever to a US university, Seattle University said. Property developer Richard Hedreen donated a $300 million collection to the university. AdvertisementAn art collector has made the largest-ever art donation to a US university, Seattle University said in a press release earlier this week. Richard Hedreen gifted the private Jesuit university more than 200 works worth a total of $300 million to create the Seattle University Museum of Art. "My wife, Betty, attended Seattle University, and I am giving the collection to the university in her honor," Hedreen said.

Persons: Richard Hedreen, Roy Lichtenstein, —, Betty, Hedreen, Elizabeth, Seattle University Hedreen, Rashid Johnson seascape, Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning, Lucien Freud, Dick, Betty Hedreen, Patrick J, Callans, Eduardo Peñalver, Giovanni TOSCANI, Amy Sherald, Pablo Picasso's, Gustav Klimt's, Fächer Organizations: Seattle University, Service, Jesuit, Seattle University Museum of Art, Roy Lichtenstein Seattle University, Trustees, Giovanni TOSCANI Seattle, Seattle University's Jesuit, Financial Times, Amy Sherald Seattle University Locations: Seattle

☆ Seattle University to Receive $300 Million Art Collection
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Christopher Kuo | More About Christopher Kuo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Seattle University is making plans for a new art museum, thanks to a gift of a $300 million art collection and $25 million in seed money from a donor, the university trustees announced on Wednesday. The donation — by Richard Hedreen, a real estate developer — is the largest gift in the history of the university, a Jesuit institution founded in 1891, the trustees said in a statement. Hedreen is donating his entire collection, which has more than 200 works of art dating from the 15th century to today, including art by Thomas Gainsborough, Lucian Freud and Amy Sherald. “It’s a remarkable teaching collection,” the university’s president, Eduardo Peñalver, said in a phone interview, adding that “we look forward to having that on our campus and have our faculty, our students be able to use that across the entire curriculum in sparking their own learning and discussion.”

Persons: Richard Hedreen, Thomas Gainsborough, Lucian Freud, Amy Sherald, “, Eduardo Peñalver, ” Organizations: Seattle University, —

☆ What if Mom’s Not to Blame?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Mark Harris | Keita Morimoto | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The past year has brought an exceptionally varied and thematically rich crop of movies exploring men and their — to use the proper scientific term — mommy issues. By the end of most of them, blood is on the floor, and the collateral damage is steep. Men who couldn’t, or worse, didn’t want to, were portrayed as marionettes tied to and practically strangled by their mothers’ apron strings. “I’ve been talking to this psychiatrist about my mother for two years now,” his character says in “Pillow Talk” (1959), adding, “It’s perfectly healthy. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.

Persons: Beau, ”, who’s, Freud, Robert Walker’s simpering, mommy, Anthony Perkins, Norman Bates, Marion Crane, Janet Leigh, Tony Randall, Doris, “ I’ve Organizations: Hudson, The

☆ John Malkovich on (Really) Being John Malkovich
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +10 min

Photo Illustration by Bráulio Amado Talk John Malkovich on (Really) Being John MalkovichThere’s a scene in that modern classic of screwball existentialism, “Being John Malkovich,” from 1999, in which John Malkovich, playing a version of himself, enters a portal that others have been using to climb inside his mind. If we take style to mean a manner of doing something, could you articulate the John Malkovich style? John Malkovich in “The New Look.” AppleThe book has a long interview with you where you say: “I’m capable of belief, at least inside the theater. Malkovich and Spike Jonze on the set of “Being John Malkovich” (1999). There’s evidence out there that there’s something going on behind the eyes of John Malkovich.

Persons: Bráulio Amado, John Malkovich, “, ”, Malkovich, Christian Dior, Coco Chanel, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Dior, Lucien Lelong, it’s, I’ve, you’re, It’s, you’ve, I’m, Terry Johnson’s, Freud, Dalí, Spike Jonze, John Malkovich ”, Charlie, Charlie Sheen’s, You’ve, John Clifford, You’re, I’d, Bergman, Gore, Carl, Steve, Dustin Hoffman, —, I’ll, Joan Didion, Andreas Rentz Organizations: Apple, Christian, Venice Film, Miramax, Library Locations: Venice, Cannes, New Jersey, “

☆ Kate Moss at 50: A supermodel through the decades
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Amy Woodyatt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —British supermodel Kate Moss turns 50 today — and she remains as much a cultural icon as when she emerged as a breakout star more than three decades ago. Johnny Green/PA/Getty Images Kate Moss and her then-boyfriend, the actor Johnny Depp, attend the Golden Globe Awards in 1995. Dave M. Benett/Getty Images Kate Moss and Jamie Hince pose with bridesmaids after getting married on July 1, 2011 in Southrop, England. Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images Moss arrives for a screening of the movie "Loving" at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. Scroll through the gallery above to see some of the most memorable moment’s from Kate Moss’ life and career.

Persons: Kate Moss, Moss, it’s, ”, Corinne Day, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer, Chanel, Calvin Klein, Johnny Green, Johnny Depp, Ron Davis, Pierre Verdy, Donatella Versace, De, UPPA, Zuma Moss, Pete Doherty, MJ Kim, Alexander McQueen's, Andy Paradise, Banksy, Andy Warhol's, Marilyn Monroe, Carl De Souza, Marc Jacobs, Patrick McMullan, Mario Testino, Kate Who, Dave M, Jamie Hince, bridesmaids, Neil Mockford, Stella Tennant, Lily Cole, Karen Elson, Jourdan Dunn, David Gandy, Jewel Samad, Antonin Thuillier, Stella McCartney, Chris Joseph, Louis Vuitton's, Peter White, Lila, Princess Eugenie of York, Jack Brooksbank, George's, Alastair Grant, Stephane De Sakutin, Amber Valletta, Daniele Venturelli, Amber Heard, Evelyn Hockstein, Jamie McCarthy, David Bailey, Kate, ” Moss, Jefferson Hack, Marc Quinn, Lucian Freud, Johnny Cash, Paul McCartney, Elton John Organizations: CNN, Vogue, Burberry, British Vogue, Getty, Globe, Glastonbury Music, Olympic, London, Louis, Milan, BBC, Forbes, Stripes Locations: British, South London, Croydon, London, Couture, Paris, AFP, Glastonbury, New York City, Southrop, England, St, Windsor , England, Fairfax, Fairfax , Virginia, Arizona, Egypt

☆ How Jewish People Built the American Theater
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Jesse Green | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +46 min

Let Us Tell You A Story How Jewish people built the American theater as we know it. The theater, which for many Jews was a major way of becoming American in the first place, seems unable to acknowledge that the danger that American Jews face is not just historical, and not just onstage. (Both of Adler’s parents were Yiddish theater stars — her father, Jacob Adler, was a renowned Shylock in 1903.) Embedding their own observation and experience within Stanislavsky’s, along with the best of Yiddish theater and a generous dollop of Freud, they converted the American theater to Judaism. Sara Krulwich/The New York TimesThe Jewish contribution to the creation of the American theater was built on the acknowledgment of a larger humanity alive within each of us, available to some, with natural empathy and rigorous training.

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☆ Opinion | It’s OK to Never ‘Get Over’ Your Grief
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-25 | by ( Mikolaj Slawkowksi-Rode | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

This approach to grief and mourning might seem to be a good thing, like picking yourself up after a fall. The idea that recovering one’s happiness should be the end goal of mourning dates back to Sigmund Freud. Over the following century, Freud’s ideas about mourning helped to foster an increasingly clinical understanding of grief. The 2022 update to the manual includes “prolonged grief disorder” and adopts the World Health Organization’s 2019 classification of prolonged grief as akin to post-traumatic stress disorder. Traditional mourning practices, with their permanent “burdens,” offer a way for those commitments to continue.

Persons: Sigmund Freud, ”, Queen Victoria, it’s Organizations: Health

☆ Joanna Merlin, Known for Her Work Both Onstage and Off, Dies at 92
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Richard Sandomir | More About Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

She moved to Los Angeles with her parents and her sister when she was 15. She attended the University of California, Los Angeles, for a year in the early 1950s and, after acting in plays in the Los Angeles area in the early and mid-1950s, appeared in her first movie role, a small part in Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments” (1956). After some more screen work and roles in Off and Off Off Broadway plays, Ms. Merlin made her Broadway debut in 1961 in Jean Anouilh’s “Becket,” as Gwendolen, the mistress of Thomas Becket, one of Britain’s most powerful figures in the 12th century, who was played by Laurence Olivier. Although she lacked a strong singing voice, she was cast as Tzeitel, the oldest daughter of Tevye the milkman, the show’s principal character. The syndicated columnist Leonard Lyons wrote that when Ms. Merlin was pregnant in 1965 with her daughter Rachel, Zero Mostel, who played Tevye, told the stage manager: “Joanna’s baby just kicked.

Persons: Cecil B, “, Merlin, Jean Anouilh’s “ Becket, ”, Thomas Becket, Laurence Olivier, Sigmund Freud’s, Henry Denker’s “, Bertolt Brecht’s, Courage, Jerome Robbins, Robbins, Leonard Lyons, Rachel, Zero Mostel, Tevye, Bette Midler, Prince Organizations: University of California, Cecil, Broadway Locations: Los Angeles

☆ How Baltimore PD's tactics in handling convicted sex offender Jason Billingsley may have enabled him to kill a tech CEO
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Glynis Kazanjian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

At a press conference on Thursday, Sept. 28, Worley defended the department's decision to not alert the public about Billingsley on Sept. 19. "We should have been informed," said Eric Chapman, 31, who lives in the same block where the Sept. 19 attack occurred. "Unfortunately, at a very young age, Jason started to get in trouble with the law," Jasmine Billingsley added. "I think he's a magnet for women," Jasmine Billingsley said. While Jasmine Billingsley was trying to encourage him to improve his life, their mother did not.

Persons: Jason Billingsley, Pava LaPere, Billingsley, ”, —, Jason Dean Billingsley, Louis Schlesinger, Schlesinger, Sigmund Freud, Glynis, Mosby, Jason Rodriguez, Richard Worley, Frank LaPere, Nico LaPere, Caroline Frank, LaPere, Stephanie Scarbrough Stephanie Scarbrough Pava LaPere, Pava, Worley, Marilyn Mosby, Eric Chapman, Chapman, Woody Whitaker, Duvon Bailey, Jasmine Billingsley, Jason, Jasmine, Billingsley's, Natalie Musumeci Organizations: Service, Baltimore City Police Department, John Jay College of Criminal, Baltimore Banner, Police, Baltimore City, Department of Public Safety, Correctional Services, Division, Maryland Office, Public, Baltimore Police, Baltimore, Edmondson Avenue . Police, Baltimore Police Department, Technologies, AP, EcoMap Technologies, West, Tuesday, Baltimore City Council, Associated Press, Spotify Locations: West Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore, Edmondson, West Franklin, Bowie, Prince George's County , Maryland, Brooklyn

☆ Grade Inflation Needs to Stop - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Tim Donahue | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

While I may fret over the ambiguity on Page 5 of a student’s essay, I’m aware of the greater machine. Grade inflation, after all, acts just like real inflation. In the shape-shifting landscape of college admissions, grades have never been more important. And a recommendation letter coming from someone who teaches 150 students is going to look different than from someone who teaches 50. As a high school teacher, I don’t want to hold that much power, nor do I think I should.

Persons: I’ll, it’s Organizations: College

NEW YORK (AP) — Errol Morris has just sat down with a reporter when his wife calls. The film, which opens Friday in select theaters and on Apple TV+, is based on le Carré's 2016 memoir of the same name. AP: The central, mysterious metaphor of le Carré's, “The Pigeon Tunnel" — a tunnel that funnels pigeons to shotgun-wielding men — looms throughout the film. Morris: I’ve often compared the writing to a Kafka parable, except John le Carré wrote it. I say to (le Carré) at some point: “History is chaos.” And he agrees, “History is chaos.”

Persons: — Errol Morris, “ I’m, ” Morris, ”, Morris, John le Carré, “, “ Tinker, le, David Cornwell, It's, Ed Gein, Robert Bloch’s, Alfred Hitchcock’s, … Morris, It’s, Ed Gein’s, Didn’t Freud, I’ve, Robert McNamara, vindicating, —, Saul Kripke, David, Steve, Bannon Organizations: Apple, Research Locations: British, Waushara County , Wisconsin, Morris

☆ Wes Anderson Finally Found a Way Into His New Roald Dahl Film
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Kyle Buchanan | More About Kyle Buchanan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

There’s mischief in every Dahl story, and the voice of the writer is very strong. When I made “Fantastic Mr. Fox” and I was working on the script, we stayed at the house for some time. In those days, that writing hut was still filled with his things and left the way he had it. I remember there’s a portrait of Lucian Freud by Francis Bacon next to a portrait of Francis Bacon by Lucian Freud. It sounds like the kind of set I might expect to see in a Wes Anderson film, filled with these totems and details.

Persons: he’s, Ophelia, Lucy, Theo, Henry Sugar, Ralph Fiennes, Fox ”, Dahl, He’d, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Wes Anderson

☆ Roman Abramovich and ex-wife Dasha Zhukova amassed a 'stupendous' art collection worth almost $1 billion, leaked documents reveal
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-23 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Roman Abramovich and his ex-wife have an art collection worth close to $1 billion, leaked documents revealed. Works by Freud, Hockney, and Picasso are among the 367 items in the collection, The Guardian reported. Before oligarchs' assets were seized by the UK last year, Zhukova took majority control of the collection. Filip FilipovicAbramovich was among seven Russian oligarchs sanctioned by the UK in March last year. His assets, including Chelsea soccer club, were frozen and his $700 million superyacht, on which pieces from the art collection are believed to be displayed, was seized.

Persons: Roman Abramovich, Freud, Hockney, Picasso, Zhukova, Dasha, OCCRP, Monet, Andrew Renton, Francis Bacon's, Abramovich, Lucian Freud's, Cate Gillon, Vladimir Putin's, Putin's, Filip Filipovic Abramovich, Meritservus Organizations: Guardian, Service, The Guardian, Goldsmiths, University of London, Chelsea soccer, Government Locations: Wall, Silicon, Cyprus, London, Ukraine, Britain

☆ Naomi Klein Explores Her Own and Your Doppelgänger - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Naomi Klein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

I sometimes wondered what I had done to deserve my doppelgänger woes. Doppelgängers, which combine the German words for doppel (double) with gänger (goer), are often regarded as warnings, or omens. In an attempt to better understand the warnings carried by my doppelgänger experience, I spent many evenings immersing myself in the rich repertory of doppelgänger films. Until the underground doppelgängers get tired of the arrangement and wreak havoc. Postulating that doppelgängers were tools to express sublimated desires and terrors, it was written in 1914, just as the First World War began.

Persons: Jordan Peele’s, “, ”, Otto Rank, Sigmund Freud, Postulating, Harry Tucker Jr Locations: Austrian

Anthony Freud to Retire as Head of Lyric Opera of Chicago at End of 2023-24 SeasonAnthony Freud will retire as general director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago at the end of the season, ending a 13-year tenure

Persons: Anthony Freud Organizations: Lyric Opera of, Lyric Opera of Chicago

☆ Opinion | Shakespeare’s ‘Sublimely, Disturbingly Smutty Effect’ Must Endure
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-10 | by ( Drew Lichtenberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Throughout the play the Roman warrior Coriolanus is alternately drawn toward and repelled by his military rival Aufidius. He dreams of Coriolanus nightly, and the two are locked in mortal combat, a fight to the death, mutually assured destruction. — Iago, “Othello,” Act 1, Scene 1I taught this play every summer for almost 20 years to first-generation American high school students. My students learned that Shakespeare’s 17th-century Italy held some of the same societal evils as their 21st century. — Rachel D. Smith, 19, New York CityDrew: Here we see how Shakespeare uses rhythms and interlocking wordplay to sublimely, disturbingly smutty effect.

Persons: Drew, “, ”, Cocteau, Genet, Aufidius, Freud, —, Iago, Tom Buchanan, — Alden Mauck, Brabantio, Shakespeare, CRUDITY Katherine, Katherine : Ay, Rachel D, Smith, Katherine Organizations: New York City Drew Locations: Vietnam, Dominican Republic, Africa, Italy, Newton, New

☆ Klimt portrait 'Lady with a Fan' headed to auction with $80 million price tag
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

LONDON, June 23 (Reuters) - The last-ever portrait Austrian artist Gustav Klimt painted before he died is headed for auction next week, with a price estimate of $80 million. "Dame mit Fächer" ("Lady with a Fan") - a portrait of an unnamed woman - was still on an easel in Klimt's studio when the painter died in February 1918. It leads Sotheby's Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction on June 27 in London, with a price estimate of around 65 million pounds ($80 million). That price tag makes it "the most valuable ever to have been offered at auction in Europe," according to Sotheby's. "It’s very rare for a Klimt painting of this quality and caliber of a portrait of a woman to come to auction."

Persons: Gustav Klimt, Klimt, Helena Newman, Lucian Freud’s, Penelope Cuthbertson, Leonor Fini, Alberto Giacometti, Buste, Diego, Will Russell, Marie, Louise Gumuchian, Matthew Lewis Organizations: Sotheby’s, Reuters, Thomson Locations: London, Europe, Asia, Sotheby’s Europe

☆ The Evidence for Therapy
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-21 | by ( German Lopez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Millions of Americans go to talk therapy. But does it work? Talk therapy does produce great benefits for some people, but not for everyone, so it might not work for you, my colleague Susan Dominus wrote for The New York Times Magazine’s therapy issue, published this week. Some studies have found that therapy has a higher chance of helping than not. Other research has shown more limited results, suggesting that therapy helps some patients but not many or even most.

☆ Legendary Female Artists on the Younger Women Who Inspire Them
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +20 min

The Artist’s Mind What it feels like for female artists to wrestle with ambition, ego, ambivalence and inheritance. That isolation has, historically, been especially true for women artists, some of the most celebrated of whom have seen “writer” or “painter” or “filmmaker” treated as a secondary part of their identity. For this issue, we asked legendary female artists to tell us about a younger woman whose work excites them and gives them hope. But for the current generation of women artists, who have come of age with models who more closely resemble them, identity seems more like a source of community than a trap. Women artists, born into a Babylon of exclusion and possibility, reveal that creative inheritance is as promiscuous as legal inheritance is strict.

☆ ‘Renfield’ Review: Nicolas Cage Dons the Count’s Cape
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Amy Nicholson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

In an era prone to pop psychology, here lies “Renfield” on the therapist’s couch. Now, Renfield ( Nicholas Hoult ) is a co-dependent in a toxic relationship with a narcissist—that’s his master, Dracula. Not to be outdone, the vampire ( Nicolas Cage ) weaponizes the lingo of martyrdom as sharpened in feuds on “The Real Housewives.” “I’m the real victim here!” he snarls. Renfield joins a support group, brandishes a self-help book like a protective crucifix and, during a makeover montage, swaps his gothic rags for khakis. Do we believe for one second that a mass murderer would frame an inspirational poster that reads “YOLO”?

☆ Why We Should Keep Reading Freud
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Paul Bloom | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

For undergraduates, studying psychology can be quite the disappointment. They come in hoping to cure their anxiety and depression, learn the secrets of persuasion, and maybe get some tips on how to track down serial killers. Most of all, the undergraduates wonder: Why isn’t anyone talking about Freud? Today you can get an undergraduate degree in psychology at a major university without ever hearing the name of Sigmund Freud. You’re more likely to find an English professor talking about him than a psychologist.

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