ABSTRACT

Shrinking the News brings together the author's wide range of articles from her regular column in the online newspaper, The Week. The articles cover current events from October 2008 until December 2010, concluding with more recent articles from 2013. These articles form a fascinating psychoanalytic insight on crime, politics, the economy, sports and stardom, and the quirky, bizarre events and trends that make up our daily life. The widespread popularity of these articles is a testimony to the public's interest in a psychoanalytic view of the world around us and why people do the things they do.

chapter 3|3 pages

Frieze Art Fair: artistic or autistic?

chapter 27|3 pages

What Hitler and Aids have in common

chapter 28|4 pages

Why the world is scared of hermaphrodites

chapter 31|4 pages

Women paedophiles come out of hiding

chapter 35|4 pages

Is Khmer Rouge jailer Duch just a nobody?

chapter 36|4 pages

Why some women bosses turn into bullies

chapter 56|3 pages

Why the world will weep for Nelson Mandela