The Topeka School July 3, 2020 Categories: adultery · ancestors · Book review · class structure · Couples · Critique · dead white guys · domination · fantasy · father · gender · haunting · history · Literature · mental health · midwest · midwestener · Nandini Bhattacharya · New York · New York City · new yorker · Novels · psychoanalysis · repetition · sex · sexy or unsexy · son · Sons and Mothers · Stories · trauma · United States of America · white · WritingTags: Ben Lerner · Freud · Kansas · Lacan · memory · midwest · State of Nature · The Topeka School · Thomas Hobbes · TopekaLeave a comment Ben Lerner’s The Tople School makes you despair a little about parenting.