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Otto Rank

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Nigel Bruce

Jul 31, 2023
Otto Rank
Otto Rank is top left; Freud is bottom left (1922). Photo: U.S. Library of Congress.
Otto Rank
"Lying flat" (Tang Ping) and the "floating life" - is that new really? Or has it been around forever?

"Lying flat" (Tang Ping) and the "floating life" - is that new really? Or has it been around forever?

I am really impressed with the student protests in Paris, Milan, Tirana and elsewhere, but these are young people who can imagine a future. What about those who can't? I can't assume everyone knows what Lying Flat (Tang ping 躺平) is, even if anyone young reading
Oct 31, 2026 6 min read
European painters of the working class, with a focus on their pets

European painters of the working class, with a focus on their pets

Art galleries around the world these days are filled with paintings of rich people with their cute lapdogs (for the women) and hunting dogs or horses (for the men). Coded class and gender stuff. Pets were a luxury item in any household and more often than not they were status
Oct 24, 2026 6 min read
Fictions: How to explain why you got pregnant unexpectedly

Fictions: How to explain why you got pregnant unexpectedly

How do you explain a baby bump when no one else is "expecting" it? History shows that religious or supernatural excuses work the best. It has to have been a spirit, a demon, an angel, or a god that did it. Who can argue with that? We have
Oct 17, 2026 6 min read
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  • The Age of Consent
  • Alice's Mirrors
  • Angel Incarnate
  • Beauty & the Beast
  • Dreaming of the Virgin Mary
  • From Russia with Love
  • Homer's Women
  • The House of Incest
  • How to Look at a Naked Lady
  • Immortal Beloved
  • The Judgment of Paris
  • Kama Sutra
  • Letters from Africa
  • Life as Opera
  • Loki's Children
  • Oz is China
  • Poison Pen Letters
  • Precious Bodily Fluids
  • Sacred Prostitute
  • Spinster
  • The Sorcerer's Apprentice
  • Splendour in the Grass
  • The Town Square
  • Vampires in Venice
  • Voices and Saints
  • The Whore's Revenge
  • The Woman in the Bower
  • Women in Trousers
  • About the Author
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