POETRY MONDAY OCTOBER 3rd, 2011

POETRY MONDAY OCTOBER 3rd, 2011

  

 Chris Fogg

This month brings us our first poet from the U.K., Chris Fogg, whose book of poems and stories, Special Relationships, was published this year by Mudlark Press.  Born in Manchester, he now lives in West Dorset with his wife, Amanda, a dance practitioner working with older people and those with Parkinson’s.  It was through Amanda, when she was in the U.S. on a Winston Churchill Continue reading POETRY MONDAY OCTOBER 3rd, 2011

Saving Psychoanalysts: Ernest Jones and the Isakowers by Douglas Kirsner

Click Here to Read: Paper by Douglas Kirsner: Saving Psychoanalysts: Ernest Jones and the Isakowers.

This paper originally appeard as Kirsner, D. (2007). Saving Psychoanalysts: Ernest Jones and the Isakowers. Psychoanalytic. Histsory  9:83-91 and zappears here with all requisite rights and permission.

Click Here to Read: Review of Charles B. Strozier’s Book: Heinz Kohut, The Making of a Psychoanalyst, Reviewed by Douglas Kirsner on this website.

Douglas Kirsner



June Poetry Monday: Arlene Kramer Richards

 POETRY MONDAY: June 4, 2011

Arlene Kramer Richards

Our poet today is someone many of you already know as a colleague. A practicing psychoanalyst in Manhattan, she is a Training and Supervising Analyst, New York Freudian Society; Fellow, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research; member APsaA and IPA; co-editor of Fantasy, Myth and Reality: Essays in Honor of Jacob Arlow (IUP, 1988), and author of numerous papers on female sexuality, perversion and gambling. Continue reading June Poetry Monday: Arlene Kramer Richards

Sonnet for Sigmund Freud’s Birthday by Eugene Mahon

Sonnet for Sigmund Freud’s Birthday

He saw the light in images in dreams
When words had fled and left the wandering night
Without a sign to guide it. The past it seems
And present in cahoots took great delight
Creating maps that led nowhere, Escher
Stairs that climbed to upsidedowns beyond
All reason where a principle of pleasure
Ruled with blind mis-rule and black was blonde.
He saw the light in such confusion, saw
The face in condensation where all faces
Were spit and image of another, where law
And order lived in chaos. Of all places!
The dream then whispered in his ear and said:
“It was I who put the nightlight in your head.”

Eugene Mahon Rapallo May 2011

POETRY MONDAY: Gigi Marks

POETRY MONDAY:  May 4, 2011

Gigi Marks

Here is a poet whose lovely work was unknown to me before, although she already has many readers.   A collection of her poetry, What We Need, was published by Shortline Editions in 1998, and her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry, Poetry, Prairie Schooner and other well-known publications.  Her chapbook, Shelter, has just  been published by Autumn House Press, and a new, full- Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: Gigi Marks