Click Here to Read: A Last Glimpse Into the Mind of Oliver Sacks By Nicloe Krauss in The New York Times on December 4, 2017.
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Coming Soon from IPBooks: A Path with No Name: A Collection of Poetry and Painting by Mali Mann
A Yiddish Liederabend – An Evening of Yiddish Song at YIVO
The Man Who Invented Christmas
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“Tortured” Artists Are Actually Less Creative, Study Suggests
Click Here to Read: “Tortured” Artists Are Actually Less Creative, Study Suggests: In a new paper, two economists argue that artists’ creative output suffers in the periods immediately following the death of a loved one by Claire Voon on the HyperAllergic Website on December 5, 2017.
1889 self-portrait by Vincent Van Gogh, the unwitting poster boy for “tortured artists” everywhere (Public Domain image)
Experts challenge the science behind ban on psychiatrists discussing politicians’ mental health
The Three Times of the Law by Alain Didier-Weill at Après-Coup
Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents BOOK PRESENTATION
The Three Times of the Law by Alain Didier-Weill, Translated by Andrew Weller, Agincourt Press, The Seahorse Imprint, 2017
Saturday, December 16, 2017, 10:30 am -1:00 pm, The School of Visual Arts, 136 West 21st Street, New York, NY
With the participation of: Marco Antonio Coutinho Jorge, Mark Stafford, Jean-Michel Vives, Martin Winn
What is there in language that is so dreadful that, most often, man assents to it only in order to chatter rather than to speak? This book proposes a radically novel approach to the enigma Continue reading The Three Times of the Law by Alain Didier-Weill at Après-Coup
To Love, to Work, to Deliberate with Marco Antonio Coutinho Jorge at Après-Coup
Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: To Love, to Work, to Deliberate with Marco Antonio Coutinho Jorge Friday, December 15, 2017, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm, The School of Visual Arts, 136 West 21st Street, New York, NY
Returning to Freud’s and Lacan’s reflections on the psychic economy, we will explore the fate of the drive at the end of analysis and that of repression.
Suggested Readings: Freud: Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis, Lecture V (1909); “Drives and Their Vicissitudes” (1915); New Introductory Lectures, XXXI “The Dissection of the Psychical Personality” (1932). Lacan: Seminar XI: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, 1964. Films: Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick (1999); Wild Tales [Relatos salvajes], Damián Szifrón (2014).
Marco Antonio Coutinho Jorge is a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist in Rio de Janeiro, Professor at the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, founder of Corpo Freudiano and director of its Rio de Continue reading To Love, to Work, to Deliberate with Marco Antonio Coutinho Jorge at Après-Coup