Jasun Horsley

3 days ago | childrenofjob.substack.com | Jasun Horsley

A Deep Reading of Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science and Psychoanalysis, by Richard Webster(Part OnePart TwoPart Three)(Art by Michelle Horsley)Previously, we have looked at Webster’s case for Freudian psychoanalysis shifting the diagnostic emphasis from the organic to the psychic, as a means to bring the psychic into the realm of the (pseudo-) scientific.

6 days ago | childrenofjob.substack.com | Jasun Horsley

(Part OnePart Two )(Art by Michelle Horsley)The next case Webster examines is that of Anna O. (Bertha Pappenheim) and Josef Breuer, the other early mentor that Freud followed, another respected physician with an interest in hysteria. Freud knew Breuer in 1882, before he went to study with Charcot, and he knew about the 21-year-old Anna O. Anna O. had a plethora of symptoms, including a cough, paralysis, and a tendency to “float” off mentally and not even be aware of what she’d been saying.

1 week ago | childrenofjob.substack.com | Jasun Horsley

Talking with R. Cam, or Logo Daedalus, on the problem of debt & what it means to be a Christian communist monarchist. I hadn’t done my homework before the conversation so was unprepared for such a seeming ideological gulf, which I think makes for a livelier (more “heated”) conversation than usual. The first half is free for all; for the full 2hr 20 min “struggle session” come over the paywall and help Children of Job to prosper.

1 week ago | childrenofjob.substack.com | Jasun Horsley

A Deep Reading of Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science and Psychoanalysis, by Richard Webster(Part One)The myth of greatness—a.k.a. cult of personality—is essential for the propagation of ideologies. The basis of any religious system is a Messiah, a Message, and the social system (I was tempted to type “Mess”) that builds up around the two. The more greatness that can be attributed to the originator of any given message, the more avidly people will follow it.

1 week ago | childrenofjob.substack.com | Jasun Horsley

(Art by Michelle Horsley)This will be a cautionary tale. One of the morals—especially timely in the age of Donald Trump and what is possibly the biggest controlled opposition psyop in US history—is that our enemy’s enemy is not our friend. In this case, the stage is a literary and not a geopolitical one. Yet that also makes it much closer to home, since I am a writer and my primary—perhaps only—public responsibility relates to words and how they are used.