Click Here to Read: Jewish Thought and Psychoanalysis’ s The Inaugural Lecture, “Freud, Moses and the Holocaust” by Eli Zaretsky will take place at 4 PM on April 27, 2014 at Temple Beth Zion-Beth Israel.
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The resurrection of Yiddish
Who’s Afraid of Sigmund Freud?
Who’s Afraid of Sigmund Freud?
The rise, fall, and possible resurrection of psychoanalysis in the United States
Jeremy D. Safran
For decades psychoanalysis dominated professional approaches to mental health in the United States and had an influential impact on our culture. Starting in the late 1960s, however, psychoanalysis has become increasinglymarginalized. Here, I will argue that psychoanalysis has always contained both subversive and conservative threads. As the historian Nathan Hale argued, Americans modified psychoanalysis to solve a conflict between the more Continue reading Who’s Afraid of Sigmund Freud?
Is Violence History?
Click Here to Read: Is Violence History? Review of Better Angels of Our Nature Why Violence Has Declinedby Stephen Pinker, Reviewed by Peter Singer in The New York Times on October 6, 2011.
Ken and Brian have brought up the question of violence in modern times. It seems to me that we might consider Steven Pinker’s book in which he claims that violence has dramatically decreased. I am of two minds about his thesis, and I’d like to hear what others on the Listserve think. It seemsto me that Pinker has some powerful Continue reading Is Violence History?
Phillip Roth: Forward 50
Patrícia Vieira and Michael Marder on Stay, Illusion!’
Click Here to Read: Patrícia Vieira and Michael Marder on Stay, Illusion! The Anatomy of Disgust on the Los Angeles Review of Books website on November 18th, 2013.
Click Here to Listen To: ‘ Stay, Illusion!’: Re-reading Hamlet on the QKED website on August 20, 2013.
Click Here to Read: Hamlet: A Love Story on this website
Click here to Read: Critchley and Webster Study Hamlet’s Complicated Grief on this Website.
