James Reich

James Reich

The Ecological Uncanny – New Column

Ecopsychology is concerned with the repressed ecological unconscious and its manifestations, with alienation from nature, and the neuroses rooted in that separation. My practice is founded upon the work of Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Carl Jung, and my central concept of the ecological uncanny.  The Ecological Uncanny substack delivers ecopsychological …

‘SPRING-HEELED JIM’: JOYCE CENTENNIAL

Just finished: “Spring-Heeled Jim” is James Reich’s contribution to The Anti-Oedipus Press/Equus Press anthology on the centennial of James Joyce’s Ulysses. From the publishers: James Joyce’s ULYSSES was, at first, a failure. Its serialization in the American journal THE LITTLE REVIEW between 1918 and 1920 earned the novel (and the …

JAMES REICH’S DESIGN WORK IN THE A.V. CLUB’S 15 BEST BOOK COVERS OF 2021

Great news: Laura Adamczyk and Natalie Peeples selected their 15 Best Book Covers of 2021 for their December feature, and the book design work that James completed in collaboration with Rob C. Miller on David Ohle’s The Death of a Character (Stalking Horse Press, 2021) was among the covers selected. …

LAUTREAMONT – THE CELESTIAL BANDIT

Author Jordan Rothacker (Gristle, The Death of a Cyborg Oracle) has put together an anthology for the 175th anniversary of the birth of Isidore Ducasse, the Comte de Lautreamont, author of the notorious Maldoror. The anthology is titled The Celestial Bandit and features short fiction by James Reich and other …

Recent Fiction: The Prisoner

“The Prisoner” was published by Sensitive Skin Magazine, along with audio of James Reich’s reading of the piece. This is one of a series of short fictions under the working title Carrion Comforts that will be published this year. Please consider supporting Sensitive Skin with a subscription or by purchasing …

SANTA FE NOIR

Reich’s fiction is featured in the new anthology Santa Fe Noir, edited by Ariel Gore, and published by Akashic Books, NY. From the publisher:Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct …

BLOOD AND SOIL, TRUMP AND INCEST

Extracted from Sensitive Skin Magazine. This piece was published May 12, 2019. Link to full text follows. Wilhelm Reich’s The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933/1943) poses a question familiar to many Americans bewildered by the presidency of Donald Trump and the igneous qualities of his base. That the question was answered so …

LARS VON TRIER’S MELANCHOLIA

“This analysis of Lars von Trier’s beautiful Melancholia is the first episode in a series of videos based on the work I’m doing toward a book on the psychology, philosophy, and ecopsychic content of science fiction film. In this episode I talk about Melancholia through the work of Schopenhauer, Freud, …

“A 21st CENTURY MASTERPIECE”

Seb Doubinsky, author of Missing Signal (Meerkat Press, 2018), The Song of Synth (Talos, 2015) and a host of other luminous works, writes that James Reich’s The Song My Enemies Sing is “an intense tribute to all avant-garde writing, contained within its literary frame only to shatter it more violently. …