Dear Colleagues,
As we try to absorb the world news about the abduction of hundreds of Nigerian girls all week, my heart goes out to their mothers on the eve of Mother’s Day. Browsing thru the international psychoanalytic website I have not found a plausible explanation for this atrocity, and can only say that at least we are trying to understand man and human nature from a different vantage point which perhaps some day will lead to an end of human brutality. I list below the posts which caught my own interest and urge you to look at the entire menu, read the posts that appeal and please comment.
My choices:
1) The Inaugural Lecture, “Freud, Moses and the Holocaust*** in Philadelphia. with speaker Eli Zaretsky, (Audio/Video)
Click Here to Read This Article
2) Never Again: Echoes of the Holocaust as Seen Through Film by Syliva Ginsparg.
Click Here to Read This Article
3) Both 1) & 2) touch upon the senseless brutalities seen in past and not so distant historical events. It seems that it is the writers of books and plays that try to find the answers. Note that both entries in the Plays Category concern themselves with past and present violence.
Clck Here to Read about the Play by Graziella Rossi
Click Here to Read about the Play about the Murder Trail of Sigmund Freud
4) And in the USA we don’t handle crimes against women well either – please read Dr. Joseph Schachter’s letter to the NYT.
Click Here to Read This Article
5) Dr. Schneider’s heartfelt entry in the papers category is well worth reading – as it reflects the experience of many.
Click Here to Read This Article
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Below is the list of contents for the week:
A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
I. Lacan on Psychoanalytic Savior-Faire and the Sinthome with Adriana Passini and Martin Winn
Apr**s-Coup PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION
Friday, March 28, 2014
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
LACAN ON PSYCHOANALYTIC SAVOIR-FAIRE AND THE SINTHOME, Seminar ADRIANA PASSINI and MARTIN WINN
Beginning with readings of selected classes from Lacan***s Seminar XI, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, we will address the notions of the unconscious, repetition, and transference, and Lacan***s idea of psychoanalysis as the search for knowledge as truth.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
II. Taming the Crew: Understanding & Coping with Childhood Aggression in the Context of Home & Family with Wendy Olesker at NYPSI
NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
CHILD & ADOLESCENT ANALYSIS DIVISION
DIALOGUES ON CHILDHOOD
Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
www.nypsi.org
Wednesday, May 21, 2014, 8 *** 9:15 p.m.
Taming the Crew: Understanding & Coping with Childhood Aggression in the Context of Home & Family
Wendy Olesker, Ph.D., Free and open to the public, RSVP HERE or visit nypsi.org
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
B. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:
III. Freud, Moses and the Holocaust
The Inaugural Lecture,***Freud, Moses and the Holocaust*** of the Jewish Thought and Psychoanalysis Series, given by Eli Zaretsky on April 27, 2014 at Temple Beth Zion-Beth Israel. Philadelphia. To see the video, click the vidoo link at the top of the screen.
To read & view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
C. In the BOOKS Category:
IV. Program change: Graziella Rossi to perform ***How is this Professor Freud***?*** May 21 in lieu of ***Sabina Spielrein***
Friday, May 9th, 2014
Program Change for May 21, 2014
Please note that in lieu of the one-woman play Sabina Spielrein, LBI and the Z**rich Meets New York Festival will present the following theatrical performance featuring Graziella Rossi.
Wednesday, May 21, 2014, 7:00 PM | Lecture and Staged Reading
***How is this Professor Freud, and how does he actually behave?*** Diary of an Analysis, April 1921
Swiss Actress Graziella Rossi
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
V. Review of Never Again
a) Never Again: Echoes of the Holocaust as Seen Through Film by Syliva Ginsparg, reviewed by Martin Silverman in Psychoanalytic Quarterly.
This article originally appeared as Silverman, Martin (29014). Review of Echoes of the Holocaust as Seen Through Film by Syliva Ginsparg. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 83:2 pp. 495-503 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
b) Never Again: Echoes of the Holocaust as Seen Through Film by Syliva Ginsparg on IPBookis.net
To buy please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
D. In the LETTERS TO EDITORS Category:
VI. Letter by Joseph Schachter to the New York Times
If the rape of a college student is a crime, why doesn***t the victim report the crime to the police rather than to the college or university? College administrators, like upper level armed forces officers, have a vested interest in how sexual crimes are dealt with. The police don***t -or shouldn***t *** have a stake in the outcome.
Joseph Schachter
New York, May 4, 2014
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
E. In the PAPERS Category:
VII. In Anticipation of Symposium 2014 By Sy Gers, M.D.
This paper was previously unpublished.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
F. In the PLAYS Category:
VIII. The Murder Trial of Sigmund Freud
THE MURDER TRIAL OF SIGMUND FREUD by the novelist BRENDA WEBSTER (Vienna Triangle, After Auschwitz: A Love Story) and IARPP member MERIDEE STEIN. Directed by Meridee Stein.
In 1919, one of Sigmund Freud***s most brilliant prot**g**s, Viktor Tausk, died in a gruesome suicide. But who was really responsible for his death? Was it the act of a depressed young man looking for relief from his own internal demons? Or was he driven to his death by the manipulation of his mentor? In short *** was it suicide or murder by mind? The Murder Trial of Sigmund Freud explores the complicated and twisting internal landscape of this towering figure and creator of psychoanalysis.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
IX. A Play***s View of a Bigoted Past Holds a Mirror to a Violent Present
by Samuel G. Freedman in The New York Times on MAY 2, 2014.
A dress rehearsal for ***To Kill a Mockingbird*** at the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park, Kan. Credit Bob Compton
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
G. In the POETRY Category:
X. POETRY MONDAY: May 5, 2014
Maxine Kumin: A Postlude
Those of us still mourning the loss of former U.S.Poet Laureate Maxine Kumin, who died on February 6 of this year at 88, have a welcome gift, knowing that she didn***t stop. Her new book, And Short the Season (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2014) is available now, and her voice is as strong as it has always been. Sharp-eyed, keen-witted and ironic as ever, she shies away from nothing in this collection, dedicated to her daughter Judith, whom we feel we have watched grow in some earlier poems. Maxine loved the earth, dogs, animals, her husband ***..
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
H. In the PSYCHOLOGY SUNDAY Category:
XI. Psychology Sunday: Lev Vygotsky
a) Lev Vygotsky on Wikipedia.
b) Zone of proximal development on Wikipedia.
To read a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
I. In the UNCATEGORIZED Category:
XII. Sigmund Freud***s Birthday: May 6, 1856
a) The dogs of Sigmund Freud on this website.
b) Heritage: Sigmund Freud met his greatest admirer Salvadore Dali at Primrose Hill home on this website.
c) Freud on Film: John Menick Explores Sigmund Freud on this website.
d) Why The Boston Bombing Reminded Me of Sigmund Freud on this website.
e) Sigmund Freud couch to be conserved as Jeremy Millar documents psychotherapy tool on this website
To read a) to e) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
XIII. Paper by Arnold Z. Schneider
Arnold Z. Schneider***s Division 39 of the American Psychological Association 2014 Meeting Presentation.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
This is the end of this week’s posts. The shortness of the list may reflect the stunned silence precipitated by the world news, or a gift to those who celebrate Mothers Day in the midst of family and friends. Whichever the case may be, please take the time to comment on our website – it is crucial that our voices be heard all over the world.
Respectfully submitted by
Sasha Rolde