#LitCrank Two: @CrankyEthicist and @TheLitCritGuy talk Freud, anxiety, homes and the uncanny. 

(Content Note: Discussions of anxiety and depression and mental health in relation to politics.) 

Reading List:
Freud - The Uncanny
Heidegger - Being and Time (see index for sections on the Uncanny, read at your own risk)
Havi Carel - Phenomenology of Illness
Plato - Allegory of the Cave (Republic)
Zoé Samudzi - How to Deal (or Not) with your Problematic Family Members this Thanksgiving https://www.bgdblog.org/2016/11/problematic-relatives-thanksgiving/
Kitty Hanna Eden - Depression is an Unlikely Advantage in the Fight against Fascism https://theestablishment.co/depression-is-an-unlikely-advantage-in-the-fight-against-fascism-af52ed5d0e12
CrankyEthicist: https://twitter.com/CrankyEthicist/status/797867170139111424
Malvina Reynolds - Little Boxes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_2lGkEU4Xs

(Image: Sigmund Freud by Max Halberstadt, 1921)

#LitCrank Two: The Air Is Different and You Can't Go Home: On The Uncanny

TheLitCritGuy & CrankyEthicist discuss politics, academia, resentment, schadenfreude and more. Features Scout the kitten. 

Reading List:
Mountain Goats - No Children: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRP6egIEABk
Nietzsche - Genealogy of Morality
Emily Bronte - On Cats: http://kleurrijkbrontesisters.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/title-cat-author-emily-bronte.html
Sam Kriss - In DC, With the Minions: https://theoutline.com/post/975/president-donald-trump-inauguration-protests-hope
Sara Ahmed - Smile! 
https://feministkilljoys.com/2017/02/02/smile/

Image: Jacques Derrida and his cat, Logos. Photo by Sophie Bassouls/Sygma/Corbis

#LitCrank Three - Cats Are Resentful Creatures

Literary theory and criticism. For everyone, everywhere.

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