What if the greatest obstacle to justice isn\u2019t bad law\u2014but the judge\u2019s own mind?<\/strong><\/p>\n In this audacious and ahead-of-its-time essay, Self-Analysis and Judicial Thinking<\/em>, Harold D. Lasswell, one of the most original thinkers of the 20th century, confronts a sacred pillar of the legal profession: the supremacy of logic. With disarming clarity and interdisciplinary reach, Lasswell reveals the limits of rational training and exposes the hidden compulsions that distort even our most principled judgments.<\/p>\n At the heart of his argument lies a radical proposition: logical thinking alone is not enough. Drawing from Freudian psychoanalysis, Lasswell introduces the method of free-phantasy<\/em>\u2014an unguided, introspective practice designed to uncover the emotional residues and unconscious biases that silently shape judicial decisions. These are not abstractions. Through vivid examples from a judge\u2019s own self-examination, Lasswell demonstrates how private memories\u2014forgotten humiliations, rivalries, associations\u2014slip into the courtroom, influencing rulings in ways unseen even by the judge himself.<\/p>\n A searing critique of legal education\u2019s one-eyed emphasis on reason, this work calls for nothing less than a reinvention of how we train our decision-makers. 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