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Todd Dufresne

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Op Ed: Your hemp shopping bag and reusable bottle are laudable, but here’s why they aren’t enough to save the planet

Todd contributes an opinion for CBC News, arguing that the solution to our climate crisis does not lay in individual action but rather in fundamental social, political, and intellectual change.

‘The Democracy of Suffering’ Book Launch: October 22, 2019

Book launch for Todd’s ‘The Democracy of Suffering: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe, Philosophy in the Anthropocene” and Mark … More

The Late Sigmund Freud: Or, The Last Word on Psychoanalysis, Society, and All the Riddles of Life

A lively, balanced, and scholarly defense of the late Freud that doubles as a major reassessment of psychoanalysis of interest to all readers of Freud.

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The Democracy of Suffering: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe, Philosophy in the Anthropocene

A strikingly original exploration of the past, present, and future of this epoch, the Anthropocene.

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A Friendly Reply to Fuhito Endo’s “Patricide of Monotheism or Metapsychology: Freud’s Historiography of Transcendental Negativity”

The “middle period” of Freud’s development overlaps roughly with the time of the First World War.  With two sons at … More

Reflections on Freud, the first “wild analyst”

Contribution to the Oxford University Press blog: Reflections on Freud, the first “wild analyist”

Psychoanalysis Is Dead … So How Does That Make You Feel?

Commentary for the LA Times: http://articles.latimes.com/2004/feb/18/opinion/oe-dufresne18

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About Todd Dufresne

Dr. Todd Dufresne is Professor of Philosophy at Lakehead University, and in 2018-19 Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, and Visiting Professor of English at Seikei University in Tokyo.

Dr. Dufresne specializes in Critical Freud Studies, and is author or editor of 12 books.

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