David Russell is Associate Professor of English at UCLA, where he teaches nineteenth-century literature, as well as film, philosophy and psychoanalysis. He is the author of Marion Milner: On Creativity (Oxford University Press, 2024) and Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay form in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Princeton University Press, 2018).
David Russell
Associate Professor, English, UCLA
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Resurgence of Freud
For most of the 20th century Freud’s thoughts were foundational in understanding mental functioning while also offering the consensus approach to treating mental conditions, from neurosis to other more severe psychopathologies. With the advent of psychotropic medications and advances delving more deeply into the brain’s biology, the psychoanalytic theories of Freud and his followers lost much... read more! »