January 8, 2025

Jill Gentile considers how the liberatory and inclusive projects of democracy and psychoanalysis reflect and enable patriarchy. Suggesting that castration fantasy was psychoanalysis’s original conspiracy theory, Gentile draws our attention to the non-binary, non-unitary vaginal space as a repressed signifier of the multiplicity of otherness. Channeling Winnicott, she suggests that the birthing fantasies, misogyny, and the overt exclusion of others during Trump 1.0, which has led to the societal breakdown that Trump 2.0 portends, may provide the opportunity for collective renewal.

February 29, 2024

The Therapists of New York practice invited 250 of the city's mental health professionals to let loose.

Jan Haaken talks with psychoanalyst Jill Gentile about the dynamics behind Trump's sexist and racist propoganda. Live interview, Feb. 19. 2018.

Interview with Eugenio Duarte, May 8, 2017

Interview with William H. Braun, October 21, 2016