James Joyce’s Democracy

 

Click here to read “James Joyce’s Democracy” by Frank Delaney’s blog, The Writer’s Life on June 18, 2012.

Saturday, 16 June 2012, dawned sunny and clear. There you have a sentence that Joyce might have written in the “namby-pamby marmalady jammy drawersy” Nausicaa chapter of Ulysses. Nevertheless, that’s what it was like on Delancey Place, Philadelphia, where the brotherly love overflowed and cascaded down the tall columns of the monumental, long-dead author.

 

Humiliation, Shame and Fear

Click here to read: “Humiliation, Shame and Fear” by Andrew Rosenthal from The New York Times on June 11, 2012.

On this first day of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse trial, the prosecutor, Joseph McGettigan, put the following words up on a screen: humiliation, shame and fear. Those are the reasons it almost always takes a long time for abused children to come forward, if they ever do, perhaps especially boys raped by older men.

How Psychoanalysis Changed Siri Hustvedt’s Life

Click here to read: “How Psychoanalysis Changed Siri Hustvedt’s Life” by The International Psychoanalytic University on June 4, 2012.

The New York-based writer Siri Hustvedt has explored neurological subjects and psychoanalytical issues not only due to intellectual curiosity, but also for reasons of personal concern. And this concern was triggered off by the sudden occurrence of uncontrollable shaking in her whole body when she was giving a talk about her father who has died two years previously.