A psychoanalytic account of comfort eating, the fate of COVID-core comfort wear and the design history of the comfy chair
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Psychoanalyst Josh Cohen reflects on the contradictions, conflicts and the disordered and divided appetites of the modern individual and Colin Bisset gives a design history of the comfortable chair. 
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