Science Book Review: Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud & Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud

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From Hunger by Harvey Roy Greenberg

FROM HUNGER by Harvey Roy Greenberg

An earlier version of Dr. Greenberg’s review appeared in his column, THE MEDIA ON MY MIND: ADVENTURES IN POP CULTURE, published by Clinical Psychiatry News.”

 The Hunger Games, a novel by Stephanie Collins
The Hunger Games, the film, directed by Gary Ross

Philosophers since Plato have portrayed Utopias – earlthy paradises crafted and lead by the best of the best. Science fiction mainly favors dystopian hells over utopian heavens. In story or film, dystopian futures may be precipitated by natural disaster or alien attack. In recent years, they’ve been emerging from our assaults upon the planet or each other. Continue reading From Hunger by Harvey Roy Greenberg