Dear Colleagues,
the winds of war are upon us again – so I turn to the website to see if we can get any clarification of what human beings are about and up to in contemporary society and if we have any answers.
I have focused on a few posts, but hope that you will browse through the entire website and share your views.
My choices are as follows:
1) I am always struck by how people who emigrated to escape the Nazi regime survived or didn’t – please read the post in the ART or BOOK sections on “Stefan Zweig’s Impossible Exile and Facing History” – his enormous intellect, and drive turned into dust.
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2) The more I read about Hannah Arendt, Adolph Eichmann and the Nazis, the more I realize the complexity of the human psyche and how many layers we have to peel to really understand all the players in the drama of the Holocaust. There are several posts this week that may deal with WWII but seem to me to be coming out of the woodwork because of the current political climate.
These particular posts especially, target the nazis, the jews, the judges, and the authors in a way that might take a researcher several years to write a book – and remember, not all facts are known. Please read in the Books category:
a)”The Banality of Evil: The Demise of a Legend”
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b)”Valhalla In Flames” and
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c)” Europe’s Anti-Semitism Comes out of the Shadows” in General News
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3) Could the focus on the “Well Behaved Child” relate in any way to our current crises? Please read “***Impact of violent media on the brain” and “How to Have a Well-Behaved Child” in the General News Category.
Click Here to Read This Article Vioelent Media and the Brain
Click Here to Read This Article on The Well=Behaved Child
4) More on the “war” theme, please go to the movies category to read about
a)”the Good,The Bad and The Unending”,
and Click Here to Read This Article
b)
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c) “***Children fighting for survival In wartime Japan”.
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5) As a contrast – please see the happy faces of Arnold Richard’s class in Wuhan.
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/2014/09/22/wuhan-china/
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6) I have taught Adolescent development seminars for several decades. Adolescence – how long is good? Posts on adolescent development would argue prolonged brain plasticity and new experiences if it last longer – yet, let me interject, it the adolescent population that is sent to fight the wars.
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7) And finally the film “Good Kill” summarizes all of the above – read the post in the Uncategorized Category on drone warfare.
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Below is the list of contents for the week:
A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
I. 40th Anniversary Gala and Fundraiser at WCSPP
Click Here to Read: 40th Anniversary Gala and Fundraiser at WCSPP on December 6, 2014 ***The Sanctuary*** Community Unitarian Church 468 Rosedale Avenue, White Plains, NY 10605.
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/
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II. A patient faces death: An analyst grieves with Judy L. Kantrowitz at NYPSI
NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Freud Anniversary Lecture
Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY, 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
www.nypsi.org
Tuesday, October 14, 2014, 8 PM: The 59th Freud Anniversary Lecture: A patient faces death: An analyst grieves
Judy L. Kantrowitz, Ph.D.
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
III. A Review of Some Outdated Foundational Hypotheses Underlying Psychoanalytic Theory with Edward Nersessian at NYPSI
NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
WORKS IN PROGRESS
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, October 1, 2014, 8 *** 10 p.m.
A Review of Some Outdated Foundational Hypotheses Underlying Psychoanalytic Theory
Edward Nersessian, M.D.
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
IV. YIVO News and Events: The YIVO Vilna Project
THE YIVO VILNA PROJECT
East European Jewish Archive and Library Saved from
the Destruction of the Holocaust to be Reunited After 70 Years
Vilnius, Lithuania (September 23, 2014) *** The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce the launch of The Vilna Project, a seven-year international project to preserve, digitize and virtually reunite YIVO***s prewar archives located in New York City and Vilnius, Lithuania, through a dedicated web portal. The Project will also digitally reconstruct the historic Strashun Library of Vilna, one of the great prewar libraries in Europe. Project partners are The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, The Central State Archives of Lithuania and the National Library of Lithuania.
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
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PSYCHOANALYSIS & PSYCHOTHERAPY
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The Psychotherapy Service of the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy is now accepting referrals of couples!
WCSPP has a 40-year reputation for quality training in psychoanalysis and related disciplines, and the unsurpassed level of ***.
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
VI. News & Events at YIVO
Taras Shevchenko:
Ukrainian Nationalism, Poetry, and the Jews
Tuesday, September 30 | 7:00pm
Panel Purchase tickets
On Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko***s bicentennial, distinguished literary scholars Gennady Estraikh (NYU; YIVO), Peter Fedynsky, Amelia Glaser, and Myroslav Shkandrij discuss Shevchenko***s impact on Jewish intellectuals, Ukrainian-Jewish collaboration, and the relationship between poetry and politics. Read more***
This program is sponsored by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter.
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
VII. The Genealogy of Object (petit) with Marco Antonio Coutinho Jorge at Apr**s-Coup
Apr**s-Coup PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION
Saturday, September 27, 2014
10:30 am *** 2:00 pm
THE GENEALOGY OF OBJET (PETIT) A, Workshop MARCO ANTONIO COUTINHO JORGE Lacan often said that object a and the real were his only two inventions in psychoanalytic theory. It***s startling, then, to ***..
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
B. In the ART Categry:
VIII. Upcoming Events Reminder: Stefan Zweig***s Impossible Exile and Facing History: Portraits from the LBI Art Collection
Tuesday, September 30, 2014, 6:30 PM | Panel Discussion
The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World
George Prochnik***s The Impossible Exile
Join us as as authors George Prochnik and Gideon Lewis-Kraus discuss Prochnik***s brilliant new biography of Stefan Zweig.
By the 1930s, Stefan Zweig had become the most widely translated living author in the world. His novels, short stories, and biographies were so compelling that they became instant best sellers. Zweig was also an intellectual and a lover of all the arts, high and low. Yet after Hitler***s rise to power, this celebrated writer who had dedicated so much energy to promoting international humanism plummeted, in a matter of a few years, into an increasingly isolated exile-from London to Bath to New York City, then Ossining, Rio, and finally
Petr**polis-where, in 1942, in a cramped bungalow, he killed himself. ***.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/art/ _____________________________________
C. In the BOOKS Category:
IX. The Banality of Evil: The Demise of a Legend
review of: Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer by Bettina Stangneth, translated by Ruth Martin, Reviewed By Richard Wolin in The Jewish Review of Books in the Fall 2014 Issue.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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X. Valhalla in Flames
Nazi Interpretations of Western Culture, by David B. Dennis. Reviewed by Peter E. Gordon on the Jewish Review of Books website Fall 2014 Issue.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XI. Encounters With Loneliness: Only the Lonely
Review of Encounters With Loneliness: Only the Lonely, edited by Arlene Kramer Richards, Lucile Spira, and Arthur A. Lynch, Reviewed by Renee Goldman in the Spring/Summer 2014 Issue of the AAPCSW Newsletter.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XII. Joshua Ehrlich***s Divorce and Loss: Helping Adults and Children Mourn When a Marriage Comes Apart
on Amazon.com
Joshua Ehrlich, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst who works with children, adolescents, and adults in his practice in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is an adjunct clinical instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan as well as a faculty member at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute.
To read more & buy please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XIII. The Call of Character: Living a Life Worth Living
by Mari Rutim Reviewed by Tracy Morgan and Richard Brouillette on the New Books in Psychoanalysis website on September 21, 2014.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XIV. YIVO News and Events
Please join us in welcoming Professor Gennady Estraikh of New York University as the first Albert B. Ratner Visiting Scholar in East European Jewish Literature. While in residence at YIVO, he will moderate a public panel on Taras Shevchenko, give a lecture on American Jewish Communist novelist Howard Fast, and teach a course on modernist Yiddish literature in translation.
We invite you to meet Professor Estraikh at a special YIVO Member Reception at 5:30 pm on October 7. Keep up with Professor Estraikh***s activities at YIVO on Facebook, and by following us on Twitter @yivoinstitute.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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D. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:
XV. Europe***s Anti-Semitism Comes Out of the Shadows
by Jim Yardley in The New York Times on September 23, 2014
RECALLING HATE Jewish residents of Mechelen, Belgium, gathered this month to remember the Holocaust. Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XVI. 75 years after his death, Vienna struggles to claim some of Freud***s legacy
on the CTV News Website on on September 23, 2014
This is a 1931 file photo of Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis, as he poses for sculptor Oscar Nemon in Vienna. (AP / File)
a) 75th anniversary of Sigmund Freud***s death on this website.
b) W.H. Auden***s Poem: In Memory of Sigmund Freud on this website.
To read a) & b) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XVII. Theory Course by Drs. Martin Blum and Jonathan Easton
a) Reading List for Theory III by Drs. Martin Blum and Jonathan Easton.
b) Martin Blum and Jonathon Easton Class 2: Freud. Theory Ii: Beyond Wish and Defense Class 2: The Experiential Grounds of the Theory of Narcissism: Narcissistic Themes in Freud***s Self-analysis.
c) Table of Contents for 2-10 of the Theory Ii Classes by Drs. Martin Blum and Jonathan Easton.
d) Course Objectives for the Theory II by Drs. Martin Blum and Jonathan Easton.
Martin Blum, M.D., who died at age 81 in December 2013, was a psychoanalyst on the faculty of Institute for Psychoanalytic Education affiliated with NYU School of Medicine (formerly NYU Psychoanalytic Institute, formerly Downstate
To read a),b),c) & d) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XVIII. New study examines impact of violent media on the brain
from The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine on the Science Codex website on September 22, 2014.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XIX. How to Have a Well-Behaved Child, Parts 1 and 2 by Kenneth Barish
a) Part 1 by Kenneth Barish on the Huffington Post website on June 26, 2014.
b) 15 Rules To Foster Good Behavior In Children by Kenneth Barish on the Huffington Post website on September 10, 2014.
To read a) & b) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
E. In the MOVIES Category:
XX. The Good, The Bad, and The Unending
Review of The Monuments Men directed by George Clooney, Reviewed by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld in The Jewish Review of Books in the Spring 2014 Issue.
to read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/movies/
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XXI. Phoenix and Labyrinth of Lies: German history and other complex questions
By Joanne Laurier on the World Socialist Web Site on September 24, 2014.
to read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/movies/
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XXII. Grave of the Fireflies: Two children fighting for survival in wartime Japan
By Elle Chapman on the World Socialist Web Site on September 22, 2014.
to read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/movies/
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F. In the MUSIC Category:
XXIII. Art Song On the Couch: Lieder in Freud***s Vienna
Art Song On the Couch: Lieder in Freud***s Vienna
Tuesday, November 11, 2014, 8 pm
Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center (129 W. 67th, NYC)
Janai Brugger, soprano; John Brancy, baritone
Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, pianists
In the early years of the 20th century German Lieder took on a new psychological and musical complexity: Gustav Mahler had a
life-changing encounter with Sigmund Freud; Richard Strauss***s Ophelia-Lieder brought Shakespeare***s heroine into the analyst***s office; and German art song entered a new Golden Age fueled by dreams and hidden desires. Music by Wolf, Mahler, Schoenberg, Strauss, and others. ***.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/music/ ________________________________________________
XXIV. Mozart and Freud Visit New York City with CFS
Save the Date! MOZART and FREUD VISIT NEW YORK CITY
Thursday, October 9, 2014, 8:00 *** 10:00pm, Collation to follow
This one act play, written by Julie Jaffee Nagel is a conversation between Mozart and Freud discussing Freud***s disclaimers about music and Mozart***s counterclaim that he could only express himself through music. These two icons engage in a lively discussion about their feelings regarding music and psychoanalysis. Specifically we learn about Mozart and some of the dynamics that contributed to his great piano Sonata, K 310 in A Minor. Following Freud and Mozart***s discussion, the entire Sonata will be performed by Louis Nagel.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/music/ ________________________________________________
G. In the PHOTOGRAPHY Category:
XXV. Wuhan, China
To read Posts in the Wuhan Category please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/photo/
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H. In the UNCATEGORIZED Category:
XXVI. Adolescence Now at WCSPP
on November 22, 2014 at The Renaissance Westchester Hotel 80 West Red Oak Lane, West Harrison, NY.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/uncategorized/ _______________________________________________
XXVII. Drone warfare in Good Kill
Toronto International Film Festival 2014***Part 3 Drone warfare in Good Kill *** and a roundtable interview with writer-director Andrew Niccol and actor Ethan Hawke By David Walsh on the World Socialist Web Site on September 26, 2014.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/uncategorized/ _______________________________________________
XXVIII. Philosopher Thursday: Ernest Nagel
a) Ernest Nagel on Wikipedia.
b) Ernest Nagel 1901***1985 A Biographical Memoir by Patrick Suppes on the National Academy of Sciences website.
c) Stories in the Scientific American by Ernest Nagel.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/uncategorized/ _______________________________________________
XXIX. The Case for Delayed Adulthood
by Laurence Steinberg in The New York Times on September 19, 2014.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/uncategorized/ _______________________________________________
As you have noted, the international psychoanalytic website this week has indeed concerned itself with our current sociopolitical issues. Please read the posts and write your own reflections on the ones you find interesting. The internet gives us opportunity to reach the whole world and it needs us!
Respectfully submitted by
Sasha Rolde