A century past its formulation as a treatment for neurosis, psychoanalysis has become popular again as a method for explaining all kinds of social torments. Not just among psychologists and artistic types, who have always had their ear to the unconscious — lately, CEOs, politicians, and economists all sound as though they have brushed up on their Freud.
Psychoanalyzing the World’s Problems Won’t Help Us Solve Them
We can’t understand society if we’re not trying to change it.
January 24, 2017