Horacio Etchegoyen 1919-2016

EtchegoyenE’ morto all’età di 97 anni Horacio Etchegoyen, argentino, psicoanalista di fama mondiale, noto in Italia soprattutto per “I fondamenti della psicoanalisi” pubblicato da Astrolabio. Analizzato negli anni ’40 da Heinrich Racker (negli anni ’60 fece poi una seconda analisi a Londra con Donald Meltzer), fu supervisionato da analisti del calibro di Enrique Pichon Rivière, León Grinberg, e José Bleger, rimanendo poi attivo come psicoanalista, di forte impronta kleiniana, per oltre 60 anni. Con lui perdiamo uno psicoanalista che ha fatto la storia della psicoanalisi, uomo e intellettuale di prima grandezza.

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Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and renowned Holocaust survivor, dies at 87

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Click Here to Read: Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and renowned Holocaust survivor, dies at 87 Author and human rights activist made perpetuating the memory of the Shoah his life’s work.
By Ronen Shnidman on the Haaretz website on July 02, 2016.

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Michael Holquist (1935-2016)

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Click Here to Read:  J. Mchael Holquist Obituary in The New York Times on June 26, 2014.

Click Here to Read: Michael Holquist: Comparative Literature and Slavic Yale University on the Society of Senior Researchers page on the Columbia University website.

Click Here to Read: Increases in Perspective Embedding Increase Reading Time Even with Typical Text Presentation: Implications for the Reading of Literature by D. H. Whalen, Lisa Zunshine, and Michael Holquist in Frontiers in Psychology 24 November 2015. Continue reading Michael Holquist (1935-2016)

Billy Crystal at Muhammad Ali funeral: I was his Jewish ‘little brother’

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Click Here to Read: Billy Crystal at Muhammad Ali funeral: I was his Jewish ‘little  brother’ Comedian reveals how The Greatest helped him raise funds for a Hebrew U. peace theater group, quit a sports club that didn’t accept Jews by Times of Israel Staff in the Times of Israel on June 11, 2016.

Comedian Billy Crystal imitates Muhammad Ali during his memorial service, Friday, June 10, 2016, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Hilary Putnam, Giant of Modern Philosophy, Dies at 89

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Click Here to Read:  Hilary Putnam, Giant of Modern Philosophy, Dies at 89 By Bruce Weber in The New York Times on March 17, 2016.

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Hilary Putnam, an American philosopher known for his broad thinking, vivid arguments and willingness to change his mind. CreditJohn Goodman