Living in hope
Dec 19, 2021
2 minutes
by Marc Wilson
riting in 1936, psychoanalyst Ludwig Jekels asks, “What is the psychological purpose of Christmas?”, proposing first that, superficially, Christmas represents the ousting of the old by the new. But also (because of Freud) “the very same fact that has been proven, a thousand times over and beyond all doubt, [it’s really about] the son’s rivalry with his father”. Yup, it all comes back
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