Pictures at a (Klimt) Exhibition

Click here to read “Music at an Exhibition: Gustav Klimt’s Drawings at the Getty Museum” by Lynne Oliva, Psy.D.

Lynne Oliva, a psychoanalyst in LA takes us on a Klimt tour at the Getty exhibition, which closed recently.  She gives a personal sense of the musicality she felt moving through these pictures at an exhibition.

Those of us in NYC or who visit can get the flavor of Klimt’s drawings at the Neuegalarie.

N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Three Gorgons (1901), Albertina Museum, Vienna

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Studies for Goldfish (1901), J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Victor Chu on The Psychology of Shame

Shame on who? And what to do about it.
N. Szajnberg, MD Intro to Victor Chu’s Shanghai Congress Paper

Victor Chu, born in China has been practicing as a psychoanalyst and also is a Zen meditator. He attended the Shanghai IPA meeting and presented this paper on Shame, a major concern in China.

He writes an informal note about his subsequent visit with his German-born wife and daughter as they continued on a Zen tour of China: Thanks for the immediate response. Of course you can publish my paper on IP.net. It’s a great honor for me. Continue reading Victor Chu on The Psychology of Shame

Refocusing the Neurocognitive Approach to Dreams

Click Here to Read:  Refocusing the Neurocognitive Approach to Dreams: A Critique of the Hobson Versus Solms Debate G. by William Domhoff on the Dream Research.net  website.

This already article originally appeared as:  Domhoff, G. W. (2005). Refocusing the neurocognitive approach to dreams: A critique of the Hobson versus Solms debate. Dreaming, 15, 3-20 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions. 

William Domhoff

 

The absurdities in psychoanalysis and science that make psychoanalysis a science: Reasons sociology, epistemology, ontology and metaphysics why psychoanalysis is a science: Meaninglessness

 

 

Click here to read “The absurdities in psychoanalysis and science that make psychoanalysis a science: Reasons sociology, epistemology, ontology and metaphysics why psychoanalysis is a science: Meaninglessness” by Colin Leslie Dean from Scribd.com.

 

Ellen Pinsky on Psychoanalytic “Love Juice” in Threepenny Review

Ellen Pinsky on Psychoanalytic “Love Juice”

Remember Bottom, the ass who begins to believe he is handsome when  intoxicated Queen Titania treats him  handsomely?  Yes, the Bottom of   Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Ellen Pinsky directs us to Shakespeare to think about the too abstract phrase, erotic transference, an experience more toxic than the words grasp, what Freud referred to as combustible.

Let’s listen to what she conjures us.  Then, click the link at the end of the article to read more in Threepenny Review.

N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor

Psychoanalysis by Ellen Pinsky

  How does the thing work? Two people meet privately and regularly; they Continue reading Ellen Pinsky on Psychoanalytic “Love Juice” in Threepenny Review