Dear Coleagues:
As Gilbert Kliman reminds us, Thanksgiving Day in the USA is also The Day of Mourning observed at Plymouth in Massachusetts. This typifies our collective ubiquitous unconscious ambivalence about life and society. It is amply reflected this week on the international psychoanalytic website. I have chosen some posts to illustrate this. Please read those of your choosing and leave your comments for all our colleagues world wide.
My choices this week are:
1) The stellar book review by Nathan Szajnberg of the remarkable book “The Rangell Reader” is a must for all!
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2) I recommend the interviews with Wilfred Bion and Brent Potter, as well the the video “Sybil:A Brilliant Hysteric?”
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3) Hitler, Himmler and Islam – please read
Click Here to Read This Article
4) How can we understand Darren Wilson and the killing of Michael Brown?
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5) And we still let our children down!
Please read more about Adam Lanza:
Click Here to Read This Article
6) I recommend both films cited on the website:
A) A Night Will Fall: The work is a film about a lost film, ***German Concentration Camps Factual Survey*** (GCCFS), the official British record of the camps, which was shelved unfinished, for political reasons, at the end of the Second World War.
Click Here to Read This Article on a Night Will Fall
b) “A Stranger by the Lake”
Click Here to Read This Article on A Stranger by the Lake
7) Evidently as we read we use different parts of the brain:
Some people say that reading “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” taught them the importance of friends, or that easy decisions are seldom right. Carnegie Mellon University scientists used a chapter of that book to learn a different lesson: identifying what different regions of the brain are doing when people read.
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Below is the Table of Contents for the week:
A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
I. Perfect for Hannukah! Books from IPBooks
a) City Within a City by Basia Berman
b) Never Again by Sylvia Ginsparg
c) The Jewish World of Sigmund Freud edited by Arnold Richards
To order a),b) & c) please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
II. CMPS Annual Conference: The Layered Self
Held at NYU***s Rosenthal Pavilion, tenth floor, Helen & Martin Kimmel Center for University Life60 Washington Square South, across from Washington Square Park, New York City on December 6, 2014 listed ion the CMPS website.
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
III. Russell Grigg on Why Freud***s Theory of Melancholia is All Wrong
Upcoming Public Lecture: Russell Grigg on Why Freud***s Theory of Melancholia is All Wrong by Erin K Stapleton on the LGS Blog website on November 17, 2014.
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
III. Hattie Myers, Ph.D. on A Comparison of Freud***s Psychoanalysis & Dante***s Conception of Purgatory 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, December 3, 2014, 8 *** 10 p.m.
Hattie Myers, Ph.D. will speak on A Comparison of Freud***s Psychoanalysis & Dante***s Conception of Purgatory
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
IV. Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture by Josef Joffe
Wednesday, December 3, 2014, 7:00 PM
Dr. Josef Joffe, Photo by Vera Tammen.
Please Join us when Dr. Josef Joffe delivers the 57th annual Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, December 3, 2014 at the Center for Jewish History, where he will be introduced by Dr. Henry Kissinger.
In his lecture-The Golden Age of German-Jewry, 1871-1933: Is a Remake Possible?-Dr. Joffe will look back at the accomplishments of German***. ***.
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
V. A psychoanalysis presented by Howard Bliwise, MDA at NYPSI
THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
www.nypsi.org
The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute invites you to a clinical series: From the Chair to the Couch
We would like to invite you to the first presentation in our clinical case series designed for those interested in learning more about psychoanalytic training.
Please join us for the first case presentation in our series: A psychoanalysis presented by Howard Bliwise, MDA
Discussants: Henry Mallard, MD and Sally Clement, PhD, LCSW
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
B. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:
VI. Interview: 1978-Day 1 with Wilfred Bion
on the Vimeo.
To view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/audio/ _______________________________________________
VII. Interview with Brent Potter
Click Here to View: Fascinating interview with Brent Potter discussing R.D. Laing, Iain McGilchrist, trauma, the American mind, and how to embrace the Unknown on the Karnancology website.
To view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/audio/ _______________________________________________
VIII. Sybil: A Brilliant Hysteric?
By RetroReport in The New York Times on November 23, 2014.
To view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/audio/ _______________________________________________
C. In the BOOKS Category:
IX. New from IPBooks: The Rangell Reader ebook
a) The Rangell Reader Now Available as a Kindle Ebook
b) The Rangell Reader, a collection of 7 papers by Leo Rangell with new commentaries by prominent psychoanalysts, edited by Beth I. Kalish and Charles P. Fisher. It will be shipped when in press later this summer from IPBooks.
To read and order please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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X. The Nazi Romance With Islam Has Some Lessons for the United States
Two new important histories look at Hitler***s fascination with Islam and Atat**rk, the founder of modern Turkey By David Mikics on the Tablet on November 24, 2014.
Photo: Soldiers of the 13th SS Division with a brochure about ***Islam and Judaism,*** 1943. (German Federal Archive via )
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XI. Approaching Primary Process Thinking with Secondary Processes Blazing
a) Review of Primary Process Thinking: Theory, Measurement, and Research By Robert R. Holt Reviewed by Harriette Kaley.
This article originally appeared as: Kaley, Harriette, (2010). PsycCRITIQUES Vol. 55(22): 4 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.
b) The Holt Rapaport Letters on this website.
To read a) & b) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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D. In the EDITORIALS Category:
XII. Darren Wilson Wasn***t Indicted***the System Was
by Michael Daly on the Daily Beast Website on November 25, 2014.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/editorials/ _______________________________________________________
E. In the GENERAL NEWS Categpry:
XIII. Darren Wilson to Grand Jury: ***I Had to Kill Him***
By Jason Leopold on the Vice News website on November 25, 2014.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XIV. New Report on Lanza: Parental Denial, Breakdowns, Missed Opportunities
By Alaine Griffin, Josh Kovner in the Hartford Courant on November 21, 2014.
photo: Adam Lanza***s fifth grade picture.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
F. In the MOVIES Category:
XV. Night Will Fall: A powerful depiction of Nazi atrocities
By Paul Mitchell on the World Socialist Web Site on November 26, 2014.
to read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/movies/
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XVI. ***Stranger by the Lake***
by Herbert H. Stein
If it had been originally in English, the title of the film, Stranger By the Lake, could easily be seen as a double entendre. Anyone who has seen the film would agree that it is, indeed, ***stranger*** by the lake, an all-male gathering place at which nudity, public sexuality and murder are accepted as commonplace. The other aspect of the double entendre is, of course, a reference to the stranger who is met by the lake, a place in which couples pair off, make love and fall in love with relative anonymity.
But that is if it had been originally in English. In fact, this is a French film, and the translators, presumably with the agreement of the film makers, applied that title to a film with the original title, L***Inconnu du Lac. I know from reading Camus in freshman French that The Stranger is L***Etranger in the original French. L***Inconnu translates literally as ***the unknown.*** Rather than remove the double entendre, this appears to add further layers of suggestion.
to read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/movies/
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G. In the PHILOSOPHY THURSDAY Category:
XVII. Philosophy Thursday: Democritus
a) Democritus on Wikipedia.
b) Democritus in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
c) The Atom and the Void *** from Democritus to Lacan by Mladen Dolar in Filozofski vestnik, Volume XXXIV, Number 2, 2013, p. 11***26.
d) The History of the Atom, Democrtitus on the wikispaces website. (more***)
To read a),b), c) & d) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/philosphythursday/ ___________________________________________
H. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:
XVIII. Researchers identify brain regions that encode words, grammar,
story on the Medical Xpress website on November 26, 2014.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/science-news/ ___________________________________________
I. In the UNCATEGORIZED Category:
XIX. Therapeutic action and progress in analysis:A child struggles with death, life, and change with Charles Parks, PhD at NYPSI
NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Robert J. Kabcenell Memorial 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, December 9, 2014, 8 PM
Therapeutic action and progress in analysis:A child struggles with death, life, and change
Charles Parks, PhD
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/uncategorized/ _______________________________________________________
I hope that you find this week’s posts interesting and look forward to your comments on the website.
Respectfully submitted by
Sasha Rolde