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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.

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 is a well-known Freud critic and controversial journalist-philosopher confronting the intersecting crises of climate change, fascism, and techno-feudalism radically reshaping our society now.

His latest book, in the draft stages, is ‘Get Real! Outsiders Who Think, Six Cases at the Limits of Philosophy’. In it he explores how non-philosophers, such as Andy Warhol, and trained outsider-philosophers, such as Angela Davis, engage with and transform our understanding of truth and reality — and show us how it’s done.

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