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Everyday Analysis is a pamphlet house and online magazine offering practical thinking tools for these confusing times. We’re politically ecumenical (the left versus right wing thing isn’t so useful now), intellectually nondenominational (the kind of problems we face need ideas from many domains, including psychoanalysis), and open access. We host a monthly IRL reading group in London and online courses. If you cannot afford our pamphlets you can contact us at the link above for a free one.  
BUT IT MIGHT WORK FOR US
James Smith
‘And did it work for those people?’ ‘No it never does… But it might work for us!’

As the Farage supporters of the 2020s start to speak like the Corbynistas of the 2010s, and left populist styles are tried all over again on the left and centre left across the west… James A. Smith returns to the lessons of the Corbyn era for politics today. Why do libido and antagonism matter to politics, and how do ‘illibidinal’ forces try to shut them down? How can the left speak to people’s bad desires as well as their altruistic ones? What is the relationship between art and literature and radical politics? Why can’t true change happen online? And why is ‘the party’, rather than ‘the movement’ still the correct form of political organisation? 

Hopeful and scathing by turns, But it Might Work for Us is an alternative theory, history, and future of left populism, drawn from the 2016-2026 writings of one of the Corbyn era’s most original commentators. 

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A GUIDE TO MAKING LOVE
Helen RollinsA Guide to Making Love is an experimental philosophy feature film that explores the nature of desire through three short, interconnected narrative stories by Helen Rollins and theoretical interventions by Peter Rollins in sets from these short narrative films.
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SHAKESPEARE AND ETHICS
Colin McGinnShakespeare’s plays are full of philosophical ideas, but they are rarely examined systematically. In this pamphlet philosopher Colin McGinn analyzes the plays to distill Shakespeare’s ideas about ethics. McGinn concludes that the “plays are about good and evil,” and that Shakespeare is “a great moral psychologist,” who expertly stages how his characters are defined by their moral qualities (their naturalistic virtues and vices).  




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THE FORGETTING OF DREAMS: SELECTED ONEIRIC RESIDUES
Dominic PettmanWe process our lives through riddles, mysteries, ciphers, and enigmas - but we hesitate to share these with friends and family. In times gone by, as for Freud, dreams were considered a key to cosmic secrets. Today, in all sorts of ways – both subtle and not – we are discouraged from sharing the content of our dreams, unless we happen to be indulging in that most anachronistic ritual: lying prostrate on the psychoanalyst’s couch. Anywhere else, an anecdote that begins, “Last night I dreamed . . .” is usually met with a sigh and a defensive glazing of the eyes. In our over-burdened world, any sharing of dreams is always already perceived as over-sharing. Contrary to this, Pettman argues - the more we share tales of our isolated nocturnal journeys, the better chance we have to understand the topography of our collective conundrum. 


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SAVING GENITALITY: TOWARD A FREUDIAN VIRTUE ETHICS
Sohrab AhmariWestern societies have dismantled many of the prohibitions that ringfenced errant sexual drives in Freud’s time. The psychoanalytic project describes people caught between two fundamental and contradictory principles: One a relentless sexual drive, the libido; the other our species’ collective need for social order and harmony. Part of this harmony, for true Freudians, is embedded in the binary mutuality of men’s and women’s bodies, which remains indispensable for society to reproduce itself, even in our sexually liberated age. In this essay, Ahmari revisits the idea of “genitality” arguing that perhaps the “heteronormative” orthodox Freudians were right about some things after all.
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LIGHT OF THE DARK: DERRIDA, BARTHES, CELAN
Jean-Michel RabatéDerrida’s essay “Aletheia” discusses the work of Japanese photographer Kishin Shinoyama. Reading Derrida, Rabaté investigates how, behind the classical concept of truth as a beautiful naked woman, Derrida argues that any photographic image tells the Truth, but a truth obscured as it comes to light: “nothing is more black than the visibility of light.” Staging a critical conversation with Roland Barthes’s theses in Camera Lucida and Paul Celan’s poems from Breathturn to Lightduress, Rabaté argues for a theoretical approach to truth that counters the prevailing truth-discourses of today. 

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THE EXTINCTION OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
Massimo Recalcati

translated by Filippo Scafi In its first English translation, THE EXTINCTION OF THE UNCONSCIOUS, Italian psychoanalyst Massimo Recalcati considers the question of psychosis. Against those who sought to break from the unconscious - such as Deleuze - Recalcati argues that to do so would lead only to psychosis.

THIS IS A PRE-ORDER - the pamphlet will be published in late 2026.
CONFESSIONS OF A CLASS REDUCTIONIST
Ben BurgisIn 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.

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