Everyday Analysis

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Everyday Analysis is a psychoanalytic pamphlet house publishing theoretical interventions and occas ionally poetry and prose which explores psychoanalytic themes. Everyday Analysis hosts a monthly London reading group and quarterly online courses in psychoanalysis.

CONFESSIONS OF A CLASS REDUCTIONIST
Ben Burgis

In these essays, Ben Burgis criticizes fashionable radical-liberal identity politics and makes the case for universalism about rights and an unabashedly “class-first” approach to socialist political strategy. This may sound to some ears like a call for abandoning marginalized people. On the contrary, he argues, focusing on economic inequality empowers the victims of bigotry and retrograde social practices the resources and material security to stand up for themselves far more effectively than any diversity trainer or “anti-racism” consultant could represent their interests. As we face a rising tide of reactionary authoritarianism, it’s more important than ever to ditch the identitarian pieties of the recent past and think hard about how the Left can actually win.

THE DIALECTICS OF AUTHORITARIAN REASON
Robert Pfaller

How can we understand the fact that, within such a short time, the discourse of sexual liberation turned into that of sexual harassment, or or how a party that had its origins in the peace movement in the 1980s (like the German Green Party) perverted itself into a party of moralist warmongers?

To answer these and similar questions, this new pamphlet by the legendary Austrian philosopher Robert Pfaller argues that while Adorno and Horkheimer suspected reason to contain a moment of immanent violence, we might be better served to suspect antiauthoritarianism to contain a moment of immanent obstruction against autonomy.

THIS IS A PRE-ORDER - the pamphlet will be published in 2026.

THE COMPLETION
Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi

In The Completion, legendary philosopher Franco 'Bifo' Berardi offers his analysis of cognitive automation and artificial intelligence. Of the possible worlds imagined in Silicon Valley and in the media discourse around tech boosterism, none will likely materialise. Instead, the unpredictable will intervene in the future of predictive technology.

In this new edition, in a new venture for Everyday Analysis, Berardi's essay is accompanied by an introduction by Alfie Bown and a series of artworks and illustrations, new and historic- from Borges's labyrinths to the I-ching - offering a reading experience in the spirit of Berardi's work.

YOUR LIFE IS NOT A (FUCKING) STORY
Simon Critchley

In this new collected edition of his recent articles, Simon Critchley - one of the most important living philosophers - takes us through his reflections on death, questions of doubt and reason, the legacy of David Bowie, the nature of fear and empathy in a broken society and a critique of narrative identity - among other things. YOUR LIFE IS NOT A STORY explores the contemporary world and its psychological impact on us, offering us a way to see our situation different and resist its tricks and contrivances.

THE PSYCHOANALYST AND THE ARTIST
Jamieson Webster

In these essays, New York psychoanalyst and author Jamieson Webster considers the relationship between the studio and the psychoanalyst's couch. From the scopophilic instinct of the viewer and the artist's anticipation of it to the pursuit of perfection and it's connection to the girl-child's curiosity about her mother's body, she asks us to think about art and analysis as connected practices. Focusing on Carroll Dunham and Louise Bourgeois, she argues for an embrace of our wildest symptoms in theory and in art.

BODIES TO WEAR: FOUR LACANIAN TAKES ON TRANS
Patricia Gherovici

This pamphlet takes as a model Jacques Lacan’s 1964 seminar in which he presented four fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis, the unconscious, repetition, the transference, and the drive.[i] In a similar manner, it reflects on some key concepts that underpin the author's clinical work as a psychoanalyst with trans-identified analysands. It argues for the re-discovery of four terms that expand Lacan’s central insights and apply to the question of trans today.

HOW TO ENJOY YOUR SYMPTOM: REPRESSION, CATHEXIS, SYLLOGISM
A three-part course by Helen Rollins and Alfie Bown

This is a 3-part course to run in, December 2025, January 2026 and February 2026. We will meet once a month online. The course is taught by Alfie Bown and Helen Rollins. Sessions will be live and recorded for those in different time zones and with other commitments.

Signing up for the course also means that you will receive a pamphlet in the post - this is the course text.

In this Everyday Analysis course on psychoanalysis, we tackle the question of self-help. How does the popular capitalist discourse of self-help today relate to the practices and ideas of psychoanalysis? Could psychoanalysis be the anti-self-help? If so, how can it help us? In this course we discuss three concepts over three sessions: repression, cathexis and syllogism. These key conepts might help us come to terms with the things we hate (repression), the things we like (cathexis) and the contradictory world we live in (syllogism). They can help us enjoy our symptoms, without falling into the pitfalls of the individualistic self-help discourse that dominates in bookshops and on the internet today.

Next session:
December 27, 2025

EVERYDAY ANALYSIS

Edited by
Alfie Bown
Helen Rollins
Jag Bhalla
Gilbert May