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Dark Times: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Politics, History, and Mourning

Author(s) : Jonathan Sklar

Reviews and Endorsements

Lucid, powerful, intelligent, and deeply relevant for the days of our times: a vastly thoughtful and important book.
Philippe Sands, Professor of Law at University College London, author of ‘East West Street’

Ranging contrapuntally over such themes as alterity, memory, trauma, and racism, Dark Times is a vitally important volume that illuminates the increasingly menacing horizons of our shared social and political life. In an age in which psychological quick-fixes such as cognitive behavioural therapy and psychopharmacology proliferate, Jonathan Sklar reminds us of the irreducibility of psychoanalysis in helping to secure the internal conditions for freedom and emancipation, and therefore in resisting tendencies towards what Hannah Arendt called “total domination”.
Samir Gandesha, Associate Professor of Humanities and Director of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada

Normalising Nazis is one example of a populist attack on thinking that psychoanalyst Jonathan Sklar highlights in his vital new book… Acknowledging human cruelty is hard but, like this book, should not be avoided. An important read.
Rachael Mckeown, Psychodynamic Counsellor, Sussex Counselling & Psychotherapy News, Spring 2019

Dark Times is a remarkable book … It is passionate, at times meditative, fiercely confrontational and intellectually brilliant, but above all it embodies the freedom that it advocates.
Ken Robinson, BJP 35:1

‘This slim, accessible book, gives a guide to becoming more aware of history and finding the roots of our fears. It underlines the importance of our own inner work that enables us to navigate and hopefully change the darker landscapes of our times.’
Lindsey Light, integrative counsellor and supervisor, ‘Free Associations’ No. 77 (2019)

’emotionally and intellectually engaging […] a remarkable experience of a book, committed not only to a visceral practice of psychoanalysis, but also a deeply practical one. In these dark times, more works like Sklar’s are urgently needed.’
Eddy Carrillo – The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 90:3