Click here to Read: Human Foibles and Psychoanalytic Technique: Freud, Ferenczi and Gizella Palos by Benjamin Kilborne.
The article originally appeared as Kilborne, Benjamin (2008) Human Foibles and Psychoanalytic Technique: Freud, Ferenczi and Gizella Palos. The American Journal of Psychoanalysis. 68: pp.1–23 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.
Sandor Ferenczi
The Well is Running Dry
by Jane S. Hall
Barrier busting is a business term recently used by Amory Lovins, an energy wizard and CEO of the Rocky Mt. Institute. He was referring to the need for all those concerned with oil consumption and alternative energy to work together towards finding solutions. Psychoanalysis needs to bust barriers too.
Since my essay on Barrier Busting (link) www.internationalpsychoanalysis.net I have been thinking about an equally and related serious problem that must involve all post-graduate psychoanalytic institutes: universities and colleges are no longer teaching psychodynamic theory. Medical schools, psychology departments, and social work schools (both masters level and doctoral level) have turned almost completely away from Freud’s ideas to the point that a recent graduate might not have read one paper by him or by anyone interested in the human psyche in terms of the unconscious. It looks like a generation will have been skipped and that the next one will be mesmerized and inspired to study the brain and genetics, completely ignorant of psychoanalytic theory, let alone psychoanalysis.
It is as though we psychoanalytic thinkers and clinicians have broken off the polar ice cap and are both drifting and melting away. Continue reading The Well is Running Dry
Click here to Read: The Glories of Yiddish By Harold Bloom, a review of the book, History of the Yiddish Language by Max Weinreich, edited by Paul Glasser, translated from the Yiddish by Shlomo Noble with the assistance of Joshua A. Fishman YIVO Institute for Jewish Research/Yale University Press, two volumes, 988 pp., $300.00. reviewed in The New York Review of Books Volume 55, Number 17 · November 6, 2008.
THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd
Saturday, November 1, 2008, 10 a.m.
Frances Champagne, Ph.D. will speak about Epigenetics and the Transmission of Behavior Across Generations. Do mother infant interactions mediate a Lamarckian mode of inheritance? Maggie Zellner will be the discussant.
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Click Here to Read: Our Hatred of “The Other”: American Racism and Democrats Vs. Republicans in the 2008 Presidential Election by Peter Wolson. Presented it at a workshop in Orange County sponsored by the American Association of Clinical Social Workers in Psychoanalysis last Saturday, October 11th, 2008.
