Dear Colleagues,
Fresh from the APSaA meeting in Washington, DC, the beat goes on and the international psychoanalytic website “that never sleeps” is again full of interesting posts which I will outline below.
My suggestions this week are:
1) though perhaps I should not have been, I was taken aback by the post on “British Girls in the 3rd Reich”:
“In the 1930s, many English families sent their daughters to finishing school in Nazi Germany. Rachel Johnson, sister of the London mayor, interviewed several for her most recent book. She told SPIEGEL ONLINE about Britain’s enthusiasm for Hitler’s Reich.” The British press has praised the book for being both entertaining and historically accurate.Johnson, who is the sister of London Mayor Boris Johnson, only recently discovered that her own family had close ties to Nazi Germany.
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2) a 1941 review – George Orwell on Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon is a retro to history worth reading now. I will let you know the link as soon as I get it, as the one on the website may not be correct.
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3) Evidently Arthur Koestler and Franz Kafka – products of central Europe’s Austro-Hungarian Empire in the early 20th century, feature heavily in the BOOKS Category this week, as writers influenced by the same politics and culture as the early psychoanalysts. Please browse the BOOKS.
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4) The post on Long Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy by Jared DeFife, Ph.D. and the post on language by Arnold Richards clearly are related and should be read thoughtfully. ( in the GENERAL NEWS)
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5) Nostalgia permeates this week.
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a) One of the posts evoked it in me – on Prague, WWII and the razing of the village of Lidice. Please read Dr. Lothane’s post and mine and Dr.Szajnberg’s comments. I tried to focus on the good, rather than the evil.
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b)Hollywood and Hitler – what more did we not know?
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6) PTSD – biological?
“Using magnetic resonance imaging to study the brains of gulf war veterans before and after exercise, the researchers discovered evidence of damage in parts of their brains associated with heart rate and pain. Such damage was not evident in the control group, which included nonveterans and healthy veterans.
Such neurological damage, the researchers theorize, caused the veterans to be more sensitive to pain, to feel easily fatigued and to experience loss of short-term *working memory,* all symptoms associated with gulf war illness.”
I am not sure if I understand this, but it seems to me that “damage” is not defined. Is it “damage” or is it that some people are more emotionally attuned? (i.e. sensitive). Is this research again used to pathologize what may not be pathological? Please comment in the SCIENCE NEWS Category.
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Below is the list of contents for the week:
A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
I. Conference on Violence in Schools, Homes, and on the Streets at NYPSI
SAVE THESE DATES FOR A TWO-DAY CONFERENCE
FORMAL NOTICE FORTHCOMING FALL 2013
Violence in Schools, Homes, and on the Streets:Psychoanalytic Collaboration with Educators, Law Enforcers,and Community Leaders
Drs. Will Braun, Jonathan Cohen,Steven Marans, Lois Oppenheim, Wendy Olesker, Mark Smaller, Stuart Twemlow, Josephine Wright and Chief of Police Dean Esserman
NYPSI*s Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 E. 82nd Street, NYC
Friday, February 7, 2014, 7:30 * 9 pm
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________
II. Canadian Network for Psychoanalysis and Culture (Cnpc)
Canadian Network for Psychoanalysis and Culture (Cnpc)/ R*seau Canadien Pour La Psychanalyse et La Culture (Rcpc): Call for Papers. CNPC will hold its inaugural conference at the University of Toronto from September 20th to 22th, 2013. Posted by Kevin on the Culture Lab Website on June 10, 2013
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________
III. IPBooks titles available in Prague
Those planning to attend the upcoming IPA conference in Prague this summer may wish to preview this special flyer which will be distributed there. Of course, you can also order all of these books at IPBooks.net (Note: The Rangell Reader is still in press.)
For: Flyer and Order form for IPBooks at the IPA Prague Congress.
please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
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B. In the ARLOW UNPUBLISHED PAPERS’ Category:
IV. As Good As It Gets: A Study in Sibling Rivalry by Jacob Arlow
please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
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C. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:
V. After Patent Ruling, Availability of Gene Tests Could Broaden
By Andrew Pollack in The New York Times on June 13, 2013.
please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
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VI. Aaron Zeitlin. Monologue In Plain Yiddish
To view on YouTube please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________
VII. Skeptical Dispassionate and Free
Michael Ignatieff Received the Hannah Arendt Prize eight years ago in Bremen. This article quotes from Michael Ignatieff*s writings about Hannah Arendt and has a link to his speech accepting the prize near the end of the article written by RB on the Hannah Arendt Center of Bard College website on December 2, 2011.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________
D. In the BOOKS Category:
VIII. For what am I fighting?*: George Orwell on Arthur Koestler*s *Darkness at Noon*
Republished 1941 review shows the influence Kostler*s dystopian classic had on Orwell by George Orwell on the New Statesman website on January 23, 2013.
please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
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IX. Sex and Superheroines
By Christina Blanch on the CNN website on June 13, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________
X. British Girls in the Third Reich
*We Had the Time of Our Lives* Interview with Rachel Johnson on Der Spiegel Online website.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________
XI. Joyce*s *Finnegans Wake* Takes Off in China
By Didi Kirsten Tatlow in The New York Times on June 14, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________
XII. Knaidel/Kneydl
By Jonathan Brent on the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research website on June 12, 2013.
Jewish Identity, Spelled in Yiddish on this website.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________
XIII. Does Great Literature Make Us Better?
by Gregory Currie in The New York Times on June 1, 2013.
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XIV. Viewing Franz Kafka Through Lens of his Sexuality Is Repressed Homosexuality Key To Understanding Work?
By Peter Ephross in The Jewish Daily Forward on June 10, 2013.
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E. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:
XV. What is Psychoanalysis
on the Columbia Psychiatry Website.
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XVI. Hackers vs. suits: Why nerds become leakers
By Timothy B. Lee in The Washington Post on June 11, 2013.
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XVII. Oops! Another Flawed Report on Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy:
More double standards and exaggerated critiques against psychodynamic therapy by Jared DeFife, Ph.D. on his Shrink Tank blog on the Psychology Today blogs on January 15, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________
XVIII. In the Soul*s Dark Night, a Digital Solace
By Alexander Nazaryan in The New York Times on June 10, 2013.
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XIX. Quote for Today from Arnold Richards
Language is a guide to *social reality.* Though language is not ordinarily thought of as of essential interest to the students of social science, it powerfully conditions all our thinking about social problems and processes. Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. The fact of the matter is that the *real world* is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language …
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XX. Outpost on Pampas Where Jews Once Found Refuge Wilts as They Leave
By Simon Romero in The New York Times on June 9, 2013.
Abel Gerson is the only one of his siblings to remain in Mois*s Ville, founded by Jews fleeing the pogroms of the Czarist Russian empire.
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XXI. Nostalgia & Psychoanalysis
by Griffin Hansbury on the Griffin Hansbury website on June 6, 2013.
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XXII. The Difference Between Psychology and Psychoanalysis
by Adriana Tanese Nogueira on Dialectical Psychology website on June 7, 2013,
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XXIII. The Myth of *Just Do It*
By Barbara Gail Montero in The New York Times on June 9, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________
XXIV. How Not to Be Alone
By Jonathan Safran Foer in The New York Times on June 8, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________
XXV. Only Children: Lonely and Selfish?
By Lauren Sandler in The New York Times on June 8, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________
XXXVI. Exhibit A for a Major Shift: Justices* Gay Clerks
By Adam Liptak in The New York Times on June 8, 2013.
Jim Wilson/The New York Times
Pamela S. Karlan, who is in a relationship with a woman, is said to have written the dissent in a ruling upholding a sodomy ban.
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XXVII. Czechoslovakia, Prague, WWII and the Holocaust by Henry Lothane
The prelude to WWII, started by Hitler, took place in Munich, the cradle of Nazism and where Hitler composed his anti-Semitically vitriolic book Mein Kampf, outlining his criminal ideology and future intentions. The British conservative primie minister Neville Chamberlain signed with Hitler the Munich Agreement whereby the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia was ceded to Germany, followed by the German invasion of the rest of the country a year later, completing the betrayal.
It was here that one of the most notorious and sadistic Nazis, Reinhard Heydrich, chose to reside. In due course he was killed by Czechoslovak resistance fighters which led to the German reprisal of exterminating and razing the village of Lidice.
Here are some further sources:
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XXVIII. In Istanbul*s Heart, Leader*s Obsession, Perhaps Achilles* Heel
By Michael Kimmelman in The New York Times on June 7, 2013.
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F. In the MOVIES Category:
XXIX. Hollywood*s Creepy Love Affair With Adolf Hitler, in Explosive New Detail Uncovered:
new evidence of Jewish movie moguls* extensive collaboration with Nazis in the 1930s By David Mikics on The Tablet website on June 10, 2013.
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G. In the MUSIC Category:
XXX. About Jim Hall and Others
TT: Return of the fl*neur by Terry Treachout on his About Last Night blog on June 10, 2013. (Featuring Jim Hall).
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XXXI. Why Music Makes Our Brain Sing
By Robert J. Zatorre and Valorie N. Salimpoor in The New York Times on June 7, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________
XXXII. Daft Punk*s Random Access Memories
By Zac Corrigan on the World Socialist Web Site on June 8, 2013.
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H. In the PAPERS Category:
XXXIII. A New Look at Unconscious Processes by Morris N. Eaglee
Conceptual Analysis, Empirical Findings, and Clinical Formulations by Morris N. Eagle, Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Rapaport-Klein Study Group Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, June 7-9, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________
XXXIV. The Neural Basis of the Dynamic Unconscious by Heather A. Berlin (New York).
This article originally appeared as Berlin, Heather (2011). The Neural Basis of the Dynamic Unconscious Neuropsychoanalysis 13 (1) and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.
To read Neuroscience Meets Psychoanalysis by Heather Berlin in Scientific American Mind please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________
XXXV. Psychoanalytic Perspectives Special Issue: Adoption
Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group Announce:
Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Special Issue: Adoption
Volume 10, Issue 1, 2013
Guest Editors: Kenneth A. Frank, PhD and Kim Bernstein, PhD (more*)
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________
XXXVI. The best *App* to relieve feelings of emptiness isn*t found on any smartphone
by Lisa T. Schlesinger.
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I. In the PLAYS Category
XXXVII. Shakespeare, a Difference: ;
Reinterpreting Hamlet and Other Plays by Simon Critchley & Jamieson Webster on the International Festival of Art and Ideas website, Presentation on June 22, 2013 at the Yale University Art Gallery.
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J. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:
XXXVIII. Researchers Find Biological Evidence of Gulf War Illnesses
By James Dao in The New York Times on June 14, 2013.
Ronald Brown, a veteran of the 1991 Persian Gulf war, has had health problems since 1992.
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XXXIX. After Patent Ruling, Availability of Gene Tests Could Broaden
By Andrew Pollack in The New York Times on June 13, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________
K. In the UNCATEGORIZED Category:
XL. Sexism*s Puzzling Stamina
By Frank Bruni in The New York Times on June 10, 2013.
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Having browsed through this week’s posts, you hopefully found those of interest to you and have commented. It seems that this week’s website content is focused on war, trauma and the past. We all look forward to your comments and a brighter future for psychoanalysis and for the world.
Respectfully submitted by
Sasha Rolde