Dear colleagues,
This is the first week of 2014. Our international website has posts relating to future, the present but also a number of “backward glances” as one tends to have at the beginning of something new. Thus we remember Jim Hall and his music, and do a retrospective on Freud’s early life and books of that time.
I am struck by the juxtaposition of the future, the present and past in art and culture, the similarities and differences and how this shapes our current psychoanalytic thinking – different yet ever the same.
My choices this week consist of both:
1) Please look at the Ethiopian Children’s Drawings “From Children’s Sights to Our Insights.
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2) Did you know that David Copperfield was the first book Sigmund Freud gave his fiancee, Martha Bernays, on their engagement in 1882? It was the gift of a lifelong Anglophile to his beloved, a book encrypted with peculiar meaning to a man with a special fascination for the complicated relation of autobiography to storytelling. Read in the Books Category.
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3) Also in BOOKS – I recommend the review of Thoughts Without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective by Mark Epstein. – Excellent book!
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4) How much do you know about Empress Dowager Cixi? This is your chance to find out – see the review of Jung Chang’s “Her Dynasty”.
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5) Will Medicare Cover More Mental Health Costs?
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6) Please consider reading the entire article by Samuel Scheffler (University Professor; Professor of Philosophy, Law , Department of Philosophy, New York University)
on “The Importance of Afterlife. Seriously” – a novel yet not so new way of looking at our existence and the future.
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7) Our Oceans – as seen in the Science News Category – please read.
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Below is the list of contents for the week:
A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
I. From Children*s Sights to Our Insights: Ethiopian Children*s Drawings, Stories and Inner Lives with Nathan Szajnberg at the Helix Center
Ethiopian/Israeli six-year old children drew pictures and told stories of their lives, of their fantasies and fears, hopes and wishes in a three-year study by Nathan Szajnberg. Their compelling drawings and stories will be the foundation upon which our roundtable participants will bring to bear art historical, linguistic, and psychoanalytic perspectives to explore questions of *..
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
II. Savoir-faire and the Frame of the Cure with Paola Mieli at Apr*s Coup
Apr*s-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents
Savoir-faire and the Frame of the Cure
Paola Mieli
Friday, January 10, 2014 6:30 pm * 9:00 pm
The School of Visual Arts
136 West 21st Street, Room 408, New York, NY *..
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
B. In the ART Category:
III. At the Freud Museum
a) Louise Bourgeois At the Freud Museum by Christopher Turner 22 March 2012 on the London Review of Books blog.
b) Louise Bourgeois, loose sheet, c. 1959: 27.9 x 21.6 cm. LB-0464; Louise Bourgeois Archive, New York, * The Easton Foundation.
To read a) & view b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
IV. The Principles of Caricature
by E. H. Gombrich, (with Ernst Kris) British. Journal of Medical Psychology, Vol. 17, 1938, pp.319-42 [Trapp no.1938A.1] on the Grombrich Archive website.
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C. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:
V. Collaborations Jazz and Poetry an the Helix Center
a) with Sean Singer and Lewis Porter, introduced by David Pollens on Sunday, October 14, 2012, 3:00 pm.
b) Sean Singer and Lewis Porter *.
To view a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
VI. Tribute to Guitarist Jim Hall
by Josh Jackson on the Check Out New Music website on December 18, 2013.
To listen please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
D. In the BOOKS Category:
VII. After a Death, Keeping a Yiddish-Lover*s Weekly Conversations Alive
a) By Winnie Hu in The New York Times on January 1, 2014,
Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, a poet and songwriter, died in November. Her chair remains empty at the Monday Yiddish conversation group she led as the group continues to meet.
b) SUZANNE DECHILLO / THE NEW YORK TIMES
To read a) & view b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
VIII. Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
Review of: Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective by Mark Epstein, Reviewed by Christian Perring on the Metapsychology Online Reviews website.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
IX. Nothing Personal, Just Business
Of Recent Interest: Nothing Personal, Just Business: A Guided Journey Into Organizatonal Darkness by Howard F. Stein on the Ernest Beeker Website on April 1, 20013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
X. Her Dynasty: Jung Chang*s *Empress Dowager Cixi*
a) Her Dynasty: Jung Chang*s *Empress Dowager Cixi* By Orville Schell in The New York Times on October 25, 2013.
b) Empress Dowager Cixi by Jung Chang, review. The fatal charm of China*s unsung empress has beguiled even her biograph By James Owen on the Telegraph website on October 11, 2013.
To read a) & b)please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XI. The 100 best novels: No 15 * David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1850)
by Charles Dickens (1850): David Copperfield marked the point at which Dickens became the great entertainer and also laid the foundations for his later, darker masterpieces by Robert McCrum on the Guardian website on December 28, 2013.
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E. In the BUSINESS & FINANCE Category:
XII. Medicare to Cover More Mental Health Costs
By Judith Graham in The New York Times on December 27, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
F. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:
XIII. The mysteries of Azerbaijan: A Shiite nation embraces its Jews
Click Here to Read: The mysteries of Azerbaijan: A Shiite nation embraces
By Rob Eshman in the Jewish Journal on December 18, 2013.
Red Village in Azerbaijan. Photo by Michael Roth
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XIV. Viewing Where the Internet Goes
By John Markoff in The New York Times on December 30, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XV. The Importance of the Afterlife. Seriously
By Samuel Scheffler in The New York Times on September 21, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XVI. Psychoanalysis and the Art of Misery
by Chloe Madanes on the Had Enough Therapy? blog on December 29, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XVII. A.D.H.D. Experts Re-evaluate Study*s Zeal for Drugs
By Allan Sschwarz on December 29, 2013.
Stephen Hinshaw, a University of California, Berkeley, researcher in an influential 1990s study, said skills training should be a priority in A.D.H.D. cases
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XVIII. Brainlike Computers, Learning From Experience
By John Markoff in The New York Times on December 28, 2013.
Kwabena Boahen holding a biologically inspired processor attached to a robotic arm in a laboratory at Stanford University.
ERIN LUBIN / THE NEW YORK TIMES
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XIX. The Arab Uprisings and Self-Determination * The Missed Opportunity
on the Karl ReMarks blog on December 16, 2013.
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G. In the MOVIES Category:
XX. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
James Thurber*s short story remade By Christine Schofelt on the World Socialist Web Site on January 3, 2014.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
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XXI. At the Movies: Rags and Tatters
Reviewed by Ursula Lindsey on the London Review of Books website December 17, 2013.
Asser Yassin in Ahmed Abdalla*s Rags and Tatters.
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XXII. *Inside Llewyn Davis*: What*s In a Name?
By Neal Spira on his A Deeper Look Blog on the Chicago Now blogs on January 31, 2013.
Bob Dylan and Dave Van Ronk, photo by Jim Marshall (detail) from the Mayor of MacDougal Street, Da Capo (2005).
to read & view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
H. IN the MUSIC Category:
XXIII. New Wave Yiddish Music Star Releases Latest CD at YIVO
YIVO on January 15, 2014, at 7pm at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (15 West 16th Street, NY, NY).
to read & view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
I. In the PAPERS Category:
XXIV. Sexual Differentiation of Childhood Play: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspective
by Richard C. Friedman & Jennifer I. Downey from the Archives of Sexual Behavior, December 2013.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
J. In the PHOTOGRAPHY Category:
XXV. Photography Friday: Hamed Sufi
*Roar* by Hamed Sufi. Hamed is a Pharmacist living in Tehran.
If you would like to have your photography considered for
internationalpsychoanalysis.net*s Photography Friday, please send your jpegs to Joel Seligmann, the Photography Editor.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
K. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:
XXVI. The Ocean Is Broken
By Greg Ray on the Newcastle Herald website on Oct. 18, 2013.
View: Ivan Macfadyen aboard the Funnel Web. Picture by Max Mason-Hubers
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XXVII. In the Human Brain, Size Really Isn*t Everything
By Carl Zimmer in The New York Times on December 26, 2013.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XXVIII. Tracking Ocean Debris
Tracking Ocean Debris in IPRC Climate, vol. 8, no. 2, 2008.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XXIX. Brainwashed: Neuroscience vs neurobollocks
by Cory Doctorow on the Boing Boing website on November 28, 2013.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
L. In the SOCIOLOGY MONDAY Category:
XXX. Sociology Monday: *mile Durkheim
a) *mile Durkheim on Wikipedia.
b) Durkheim*s classic contribution on The Anomie Tradition Explaining Rates of Deviant Behavior Adapted from pp. 68-75 of James D. Orcutt, Analyzing Deviance, Dorsey Press, 1983.
c) Durkheim and Anomie by Chad M. Gesser on the Social Lens website on March 4, 2010.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
M. In the UNCATEGORIZED Category:
XXXI. Philosophy Thursday: Charles Taylor
a) Charles Taylor on Wikipedia.
b) Charles Taylor in the Canadian Encyclopedia.
c) The Engaged Philosopher Charles Taylor is renowned for his belief in the importance of spirituality in our secular world * and for his *
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Catching up with the past, present and future posts has been an adventure for me this week, and I hope you will find it as exciting. Please write your comments on the website. Let us make this new year as interactive with all our colleagues globally as possible.
Respectfully submitted by
Sasha Rolde