In late 2022, I was enjoying my last semester in the United States, before I headed to Brazil to conduct ethnographic fieldwork. I spent the fall break in New York City and used my free time to head downtown and browse bookstores. I was specifically looking for books on psychoanalysis in perhaps the most (only?) Freudian city in the country. After all, NYC remains to this day a Freudian oasis within a USA that had largely moved past psychoanalysis and replaced it with cognitive-behavioral therapy, pharmacology, neuro-disciplines, and self-help. (read more...)