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Professor Leo Coleman Publishes "Why to Read Winicott After the US Election, and How"

Professor Leo Coleman, of the Anthropology Department, recently published an article on Somatosphere http://somatosphere.net/2016/11/why-to-read-winnicott-after-the-us-election-and-how.html, a self-described "collaborative website covering the intersections of medical anthropology, science and technology studies, cultural psychiatry, psychology and bioethics." The article, "Why to Read Winicott After the US Election, and How," discusses how a 1950 essay by the psychoanalyst DW Winicott ("Some Thoughts on the Word 'Democracy'"), might provide insight into certain aspects of the recent US Presidential election.

"The broader lesson I want to take away from this reading," writes Coleman, "is that our interpretive disciplines, forms of personal knowledge, and ethnographic work may in fact offer a robust basis for critical engagement with how our legal and political institutions work, as well as offering insights into how they work upon, with, and also within us.  Understanding these latter dimensions of politics-- for which we don't even have a common vocabulary-- is one prerequisite for better institutions."

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