Maria: The Lives and Loves of Maria Callas by Alma Bond

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Click Here to Read:  Maria: The Lives and Loves of Maria Callas by Alma Bond presented at the IPTAR 50th Anniversary Arts Symposium on October 25, 2009 in New York City.

Sophia Cecilia Anna Maria Kalogeropoulos was born in December, 1923. She would be 85 if she were living today. The hospital gives her date of
birth as Dec. 2, but her mother insisted it was Dec. 4. Maria celebrated her birthday on Dec. 2. Her disastrous relationship with her mother began a few minutes after she was born. The nurse reached out to Litza and said, “Here is your beautiful twelve and a half pound baby girl!” “A girl?” she muttered “I already have a girl. I need my baby boy.  Take her away, I don’t want her.” Then she turned her back on Maria and refused to see her for four whole days. Maria wasn’t Vasily; the baby boy who had died a few years
before; therefore in her mother’s mind she was worthless. Maria was a Replacement Child, and they rarely turn out well.

Body, Psychosis and the Future of Psychoanalysis

International Conference
 BODY, PSYCHOSIS AND THE FUTURE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
Catholic University, Rome
Istitute of Psichiatry & Psychology
Prof. P. Bria

ROME,   7  NOVEMBER 2009,  9.30 am
A.Gemelli Hospital
Aula Vito
Largo A. Gemelli 8

Riccardo Lombardi
Janice Liebermann
Isaac Tylim
Keynote Speakers

Click here to read:  Riccardo Lombardi: BODY AND PSYCHOSIS:  AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CONFERENCE PAPERS

Pearls From Tears by Arlene Kramer Richards

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 Click Here To Read:  Pearls From Tears: The Poetry of Irene Klepfisz  by Arlene Kramer Richards from the IPTAR Arts Symposium on October 25, 2009.

The poet whose work about the Shoah is closest to my heart is Irena Klepfisz. She was brought up by a single mother who survived the Holocaust after Irena’s father died fighting for the Jewish people. Mother and daughter emigrated to the US after the war and lived together in New York until Irena grew up. Here are a pair of poems that try to make sense of the incomprehensible:

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Freud’s Theories of the Unconscious by H. W. Chase

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Click Here to Read: Freud’s Theories of the Unconscious by H. W. Chase, Ph.D in  The North Carolina High School Bulletin: April, 1911, pp. 110-121.

This article prevously appeared as Chase, H.E. (April 1911).  Freud’s Theories of the Unconscious.  The North Carolina High School Bulletin, April 1911, pp. 110-121 and appears with all requisite rights and permissions.