Psychoanalysis and Addiction

Psychoanalysis and Addiction: Listening to You

SFX Producer Season 6 Episode 12

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Author and psychoanalyst Graeme Daniels continues his reading of his 2019 book, The Psychology of Tommy, about the famous rock opera. This reading covers the mid-section and finale of the piece, explicating Tommy's schizoid and narcissistic rise and fall, his failed efforts at messianism with a drug-addled following, and his dejected yet accepting defeat.