The Editors of Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Joe Lichtenberg and Mel Bornstein, would like to announce issue 35:8: Category/Gender. Issue Editor: Susan McNamara
Prologue: Category/Gender: Languages of Gender and Desire
Susan McNamara
The Machine-Phallus: Psychoanalyzing the Geopolitical Economy of Masculinity and Race
Heidi J. Nast
The Body One Is: The Best Form of Containment or The Crying Game Redux
Aisha Abassi & Susan McNamara Continue reading Psychoanalytic Inquiry Issue #35:8
Psychoanalysis is a Human Tradition Passed On from One Generation to the Next
(Acceptance speech by Daniel Benveniste upon receiving an Honorary Membership in the American Psychoanalytic Association presented by Dr. Mark Smaller)
I am delighted this evening to accept this Honorary Membership in the American Psychoanalytic Association. It is, indeed, an honor and a great pleasure, as well.
When it comes to developing a professional identity, training is essential. But two other ways of further developing that professional identity are through professional affiliation, with institutes and associations, and/or through lineage. Being an outsider all my life has naturally made me incline less toward belonging and more toward lineage. As I like to put it, psychoanalysis is a human tradition passed on from one generation to the next and tonight I find Continue reading Psychoanalysis is a Human Tradition Passed On from One Generation to the Next
Through the holes
In the doorposts
You can see
Memory
Peering back at you
If you dare to see
What survives
What wouldn’t be
Destroyed.
Cast no cold eye
Horseman:
Put your ear
To the holes in the doorposts
The screams that you hear
Are your own.
–Eugene Mahon
Click Here to Read: Witnessing the death of Yiddish language and culture: Holes in the Doorposts by Arnold Richards. Continue reading Holes in the Door Posts, Poem by Eugene Mahon
