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Vincent Moya is a French artist who says that he was influenced by the pioneer photographer Cartier Bresson. Moya does seem to capture a moment in a way that has motion. Almost as though in one picture Moya has distilled a few frames of film into one shot. His on-line gallery.

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Sigmund Freud and his daughter’s encounter with the Nazis. How Anna Freud probably talked herself and her father out of being arrested. How Freud’s understanding of the authoritarian temperament helped Anna deal with questioning by the Gestapo. Freud and Anna.

My father, she might have thought, as the dull questions came and came again, knows you better than you know yourself. A string of books and essays proves as much: “On Narcissism,” Group Psychology, Future of an Illusion, Totem and Taboo. For years he has been writing about the hunger for the leader — your Hitler, your half-monster, half-clown — and all the others who’ve come before and all who will come later in his image. He knows why you need the leader the way you do. He understands how the leader brings oneness to a psyche — and a state — at odds with itself.