A Yiddish Liederabend – An Evening of Yiddish Song at YIVO

6:30 PM
A Yiddish Liederabend – An Evening of Yiddish Song
Presented by YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Concert
Hear an elegant, nostalgic program devoted to treasures of Yiddish song and the poetry that inspired this musical expression in all its variety of style. The concert begins at 7:30pm; Neil W. Levin delivers the pre-concert lecture at 6:30pm on the development of the Yiddish lieder tradition and its literary basis.
Tickets: $15 general; $10 YIVO members, students at https://yivo.org/Liederabend or 917-606-8290
Link: http://programs.cjh.org/event/a-yiddish-liederabend-2017-12-13

“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)

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