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Book -- Dispatches From the Freud Wars: Psychoanalysis and Its Passions , by John Forrester.
The Post serves up an acute description of what transpired: the administration reps found themselves caught between opposing passions (about being two tough on Iraq, about not being tough enough) armed only with a largely passionless argument.
For surely,Nothing can so disturb the passions, or Perplex the intellects of man so much,As the disruption of this union withVisible nature, separation from allThat has delighted or engaged him, a changeNot only of the place but of the mannerOf his being, an entrance into a state Not simply which he knows not, but perhapsA state he has not faculties to know."
That infamous act of judicial will, which served only to fuel the passions for war, held that a former slave could never become the citizen of any state.
In October, St. Martin's Press will publish an anthology of essays from the Times Higher Education Supplement titled Consuming Passions: Food in the Age of Anxiety . The book's co-editor Jennifer Wallace, a lecturer at Cambridge University, suggests that food is a source of reassurance in troubling times.