Aea Varfis-van Warmelo
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‘Psychoanalysis never truly took root in Albania during the early decades of the twentieth century and, after the communist takeover in 1944, it was actively suppressed by the regime.’ Ardian Vehbiu on Jacques Lacan’s visit to Albania.
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Whenever Richard mentioned Hitler, Klein unwaveringly substituted “Hitler” with “penis”. Ben Parker on Melanie Klein and child psychology.
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‘My greatest mistake comes to me – the writing of this book. I want to give myself to somebody else. Give myself to somebody else – can I do it?’
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‘Norén’s writing was always a work in progress – there is a feeling both in the plays and in his diaries of perpetual renewal held fast by recurring themes.’
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‘More than three hundred people – mostly women – were executed.’ Maja Daniels photographs the town where Sweden’s witch trials took place.
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‘I left the brothel / when I got my first writing grant / I could hardly wrap my head around / the hundred grand in my account’
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‘We stand face-to-face, and rather close. He smells of wool. Ever since then I can’t help connecting the two things; the smell of wool and what he says.’ Six short stories by Helle Helle, translated by Martin Aitken.
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‘In time, I became familiar with every card. One in particular fascinated me. The High Priestess.’ Fiction by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken.
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‘Characteristically, its greatest writers distrust abstraction and analysis – the operations of reason itself.’ Thomas Meaney on Scandinavia.