Dea T.

other. In Lacanian terms,our claimed solidarity with the other masks our desire. This opens a psychoanalytic reading of anthropology to listen for an ambivalence often absent in our ethics—what might we repress in an emphasis on empa

This is why art matters: because it dredges our psychic depths in ways that even the artist may not understand. “The arts,” writes the Zen poet Gary Snyder, following Levi-Strauss, “are the wilderness areas of the imagination, surviving like national parks in the midst of civilized minds.” Strange things grow in the wilderness; unusual plants... See more