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A Eulogy for Psychoanalysis (2012)

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Dr Webster mourns
The coffin of psychoanalysis
Dr Critchley sings Candle in the Wind

This was one of the eulogies delivered over the coffin of the talking cure at an event at Cabinet in Brooklyn, which marked the publication of Jamieson Webster's book, The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis. Following the eulogies, we processed to the Gowanus canal, where the corpse was ignominiously disposed of.

Posted on January 14th, 2012

A Funeral For Psychoanalysis: Friday 13th January 2012

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Karner Hallstatter bonehouse

 

Posted on January 3rd, 2012

Park St Cemetery, Calcutta

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Tucked away behind a bustling Calcutta street is this cemetary, containing the graves of hundreds of British colonists from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Many died very young, from malaria and waterborne diseases. The grief evident in many of the inscriptions is palpable.

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Park St cemetery
Infant son
21 years
departed
Died on board ship
brother officers
4 infants
Miss Mellish
Martha 23
3 die
pleasure
mortal coil
infant
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dust
heart
alas!
New York
ornament
shipwreck
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Posted on February 7th, 2009
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