Click here to watch “China’s extreme birdman contest” by Emma Owen from BBC News on October 18, 2012.

Click Here to Read: Le troisième débat : Romney, un Obama bis ? Le psychanalyste a regardé le débat présidentiel. Pour lui, les deux candidats étaient à front renversé. Son analyse par  Jacques-Alain Miller sur let site de Le Point.fr.  This article is in French.

Click here to read “Debates a showcase of primal styles” by Lawrence D. Blum from Philly.Com on October 21, 2012.

All people wish to kill. Killing for food, land, money, political advantage, religious principle, sexual partners, and even amusement are all part of our complex heritage. Children around the world play at hunting, war, and “cops and robbers.” The wish to kill also informs our language: a successful comedian “kills” the audience; a sports team that wins big “slaughters” its opponents.

What distinguishes us from each other as individuals is how we handle these universal wishes. The recent presidential debates provided an instructive illustration.

Click here to read “What Freud Said About Writing Fiction” by Maria Popova from The Atlantic on October 16, 2012.

“The creative writer does the same as the child at play,” and other quips

Click here to read “Florida Okays Execution of Schizophrenic Man in Direct Violation of Supreme Court Ruling” by By Rania Khalek from Truthout on October 20, 2012.

The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that the state can proceed with the execution of 64-year-old John Erroll Ferguson, despite its finding that he is a paranoid schizophrenic. The decision will be appealed to the US Supreme Court.

Click here to read “Boy Scout Files Give Glimpse Into 20 Years of Sex Abuse” by Kirk Johnson from The New York Times on October 18, 2012.

Click here to read “As China Readies for Leadership Handover, Where are Marx and Mao?” by Hannah Beech from TIME on October 17, 2012.

Marxist ideas, which normally enjoy public celebration before major political events in the People’s Republic, have been curiously diminished on the eve of China’s once-in-a-decade leadership transition.

Click here to read “App promises to psychoanalyze debates in real time” by Heather Kelly from CNN.com on October 16, 2012.

In olden times, watching the presidential debates was a lonely, one-dimensional experience. Now, we have running Twitter commentary, instant fact-checks and liveblogs to help us digest the candidates’ various claims and arguments as they make them.

Click Here to Read: Joe Biden Was Right to Laugh By Matt Taibbi, in Rolling Stone on October 12, 2012.

Click Here to Read:  Sigmund Freud – Life and Work on the Freud Files website.