Capital punishment, life & death, LGBT, empathy, fact resistant humans from Sasha Rolde

Dear Colleagues:

Adding to our ongoing discussion of torture, violence and killing as we read and listen to last week to Robert J. Lifton, the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the self admitted Boston Marathon bomber, came to an end this week with a death sentence. As it dominated the news here, a discussion of capital punishment is ubiquitous. To me it seems counterintuitive as human beings seems to be waging war on an almost constant basis without much regard to to life and killing many. With this in mind, I will try to find some posts that may be relevant, but perhaps you will find others that appeal to your interests.
As usual I will list may preferences followed by the full menu.
My choices are as follows:

1) The March 2016:***The Courage to Fight Violence Against Women*** COWAP Conference is clearly in forefront of our discussions against violence and I recommend attending it.
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2) As for books to read, I would pick up ***Below the Line in Beijing*** by Richard Seldin
coming soon from IPBooks:
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3) On death and killing: real and in our language
a)The Killing of Osama bin Laden
Seymour M. Hersh
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b) Bellow After Death
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c) The Scientific Assassination of a Sexual Revolutionary: How America Interrupted Wilhelm Reich***s Orgasmic Utopia
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d) The Westerbork transit camp and the destruction of Dutch Jewry
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4) On life & death please read the interesting story of The Jewish Connection to Lampedusa:
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5) Forbidden films of the third Reich – yet another issue to resolve:
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5) 2 papers on sexual differences worth reading:

a) Hans Loewald***s essay
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b) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health Disparities
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6) Paul Ornstein***s paper, clearly and cogently restating the Kohutian position on the Centrality of Empathy In Psychoanalysis, is a wonderful read and a must for all of us over and over again – especially with the psychoanalysts*** position in today***s society.
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7) Fact resistant humans? probably right on!
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Below is the Table of Contents for the week:

A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:

I. Launch of New COWAP Books at the IPA Boston Congress

IPABostonCongress

HOLD THIS DATE: IPA Conference: Boston, Saturday 25 July from 12.45-13.45 And Join Us for a Toast

LAUNCH of New COWAP ( Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis ) Books including:
HOMOSEXUALITIES: Psychogenesis, Polymorphism, and Countertransference Elda Abrevaya and Frances Thomson-Salo (editors)

MYTHS OF MIGHTY WOMEN: Their Application in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Arlene Kramer Richards and Lucille Spira (editors)

MEDEA: Myth and Unconscious Fantasy
Esa Roos (editor)

Speakers: Frances Thomson-Salo, Elda Abrevaya and Esa Roos and others
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _______________________________________________

II. From the Chair to the Couch: An Adolescent Psychoanalysis with Adam Libow at NYPSI

NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Boardroom
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
www.nypsi.org

Thursday, June 4, 2015, 7:30 *** 9:30 pm at NYPSI
The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute invites you to a clinical series:

From the Chair to the Couch: An Adolescent Psychoanalysis
We would like to invite you to the next presentation in our clinical case series designed for those interested in learning more about psychoanalytic training.

Please join us for the Fourth case presentation in our series: presented by Adam Libow

To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _______________________________________________

III. Odette en abyme: Marcel Proust and Photography with Mary Bergstein 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

Thursday, June 4, 2015, 8 p.m.
Professor Mary Bergstein will present Odette en abyme: Marcel Proust and Photography (mo

To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _______________________________________________

IV. ***Infidelity as Manic Defense*** with Shelley Nathans, PhD at CFS
THE PSYCHOANALYTIC TRAINING INSTITUTE OF THE CONTEMPORARY FREUDIAN SOCIETY ***Infidelity as Manic Defense*** Shelley Nathans, PhD
Discussants: Mary Morgan and Francis Grier

Friday, June 19, 2015, 8:00-10:00pm

The paths leading to infidelity in a couple***s relationship are manifold and diverse; there is no singular cause, no simple, linear route. Using a contemporary Kleinian ***..

To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _______________________________________________

V. Save the Date ***The Courage to Fight Violence Against Women*** COWAP Conference
Weekend Conference, March 4 *** 5, 2016
Friday evening through Saturday evening, Reception: Saturday evening Location: American University Katzen Arts Center

Sponsored By:
The International Psychoanalytical Association Committee of Women and Psychoanalysis (COWAP)
The American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center

To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _______________________________________________

B. In the ART Category:

VI. Lucian Freud nude sale sets new record for artist

on the BBC News website on May 14, 2015.

To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/art/ _______________________________________________

VII. My Narrative Art: Mr. Lucas, Are You There?

Freud (photo)

by N Spira on his A Deeper Look blog on May 11, 2015.

To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/art/ _______________________________________________

C. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:

VIII. Blues legend B.B. King dies at age 89

a) Blues legend B.B. King dies at age 89 By Todd Leopold on CNN News website.
b)***King of the Blues*** B.B. King dead at 89 at home in Vegas by Ken Ritter in the Washington Post on May 15, 2015.

To read/listen to a) & b) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/audio/
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IX. An Interview with Stephen Frosh on Forgiveness in Judaism and Psychoanalysis

(photo)StephenFrosch

a) The Jewish Thought and Psychoanalysis website.

b) An Interview with Stephen Frosh on Forgiveness in Judaism and Psychoanalysis.
c) Freud, Moses and the Holocaust with Professor Eli Zaretsky.
To read/view a),b) & c) go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/audio/
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D. In the BOOKS Category:

X. ***On the Move,*** by Oliver Sacks

OliverSacks (photo)

a) ***On the Move,*** by Oliver Sacks, Reviewed By Andrew Solomon in The New York Times on May 11, 2015.

b) The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks on the Freud Quotes blog.

c) Strangers in the Mirror Podcast with Oliver Sacks on the Radio Lab website on June 15, 2010.

d) Oliver Sacks on this website.

To read a),b),c) & d) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XI. Coming Soon from IPBooks: Below the Line in Beijing by Richard Seldin
(photo ) Seldin front cover

In an exciting new novel, soon to be released by IPBooks, Richard Seldin takes the reader on an inwardly intense,
psychoanalytically-charged, and outwardly globe-spanning journey.
In this strikingly imaginative and unique exploration of love, psychoanalysis, and male sexuality, the protagonist must struggle with a deteriorating marriage, the loss of his ability to speak English, a philandering doppelganger, and disorienting fantasies about hooking-up with young women.

Without apparent cause, the novel***s protagonist, a 61-year-old attorney and former track star, awakens at home in Baltimore next to his wife, suddenly unable to speak. He questions whether this sudden ***

To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XII. Science and Writing: Living in the Real World by Joram Piatigorsky
photo: Jellyfish

by Joram Piatigorsky on his blog on May 11, 2015.

To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XIII. Why I Never Wrote About My Patients
photo: lisa-gornick

By Lisa Gornick in The New York Times on May 12, 2015.

To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XIV. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
on the Freud Quotes blog.

To read a),b),c) & d) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XV. The Killing of Osama bin Laden

Photo:SeymourHersh

by Seymour M. Hersh on the London Review of Books website in Volume 37, No 10 May 21, 2015.

To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XVI. Bellow After Death

photo: SaulBellow

by Gary Shteyngart in the New York Review of Books on May 10, 2015.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XVII. The Scientific Assassination of a Sexual Revolutionary: How America Interrupted Wilhelm Reich***s Orgasmic Utopia

photo: TheodorReik

a) By Jason Louv on the Motherboard Website.

b) Psychoanalysis in Vienna and Berlin By Lore Reich Rubin on this website.
c) Wilhem Reich and Anna Freud on this website.

d) Marxism and Psychoanalysis *** Notes on Wilhelm Reich***s Life and Works by Alessandro D***Aloia on the In Defence of Marxism website eon October 15, 2004.

e) Father of the sexual revolution on this Website.

f) Unsexed Reich by Nathan Szajnberg on this website.

To read a),b),c),d),e) & f) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XVIII. Transgender at the C.I.A.

by The Editorial Board in The New York Times on May 11, 2015.
photo: Diane Schroer, a plaintiff in a transgender rights case. Damon Winter/The New York Times

Please read more at http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/editorials/ _______________________________________

E. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:

XIX. Vienna brings in gay-themed crossing lights for Eurovision Song Contest
photo:Vienna-gay-traffic-lights

By Laura Smith-Spark on the CNN website on May 12, 2015.