Click Here to Read: The Mysterious Experiments of Hercules Segers, a 17th-Century Art Radical: The Mysterious Landscapes of Hercules Segers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the first major retrospective on the radically experimental 17th-century Dutch artist by Allison Meier on the HyperAllergic website on March 27, 2017.
Click Here to Read: Jonathan Swift on Wikipedia.
Click Here to Read: Jonathan Swift: 1667–1745 on the Poetry Foundation Website.
Click Here to Read: A Life of Jonathan Swift, Beyond Satire By James McNamara in The New York TImes on Feburary 20, 2017.
Click Here to Read: Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World by Leo Damrosch – review A new biography of the great ironist is convincing about his private life – was he sexually twisted? John Mullan on the Guardian website on January 3, 2014.
Click Here to Read: The 100 best novels, No 3 – Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726): Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels comes third in our list of the best novels written in English. Robert McCrum discusses a satirical masterpiece that’s never been out of print by Robert McCrum on the Guardian website on October 6, 2013. Continue reading Writer’s Wednesday: Jonathan Swift
Click Here to View: The Unknown Freud: A Psychobiography by Robert Lippman YouTube. Although he died over three-quarters of a century ago, Sigmund Freud continues to elude both his biographers and his critics. Based on over three decades of research, this presentation offers a look at the father of psychoanalysis not rendered before.
Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents
The Formation of the Analyst and the Social Link
Saturday, April 8, 2017, 10:30 am – 3:00 pm, The School of Visual Arts, 136 West 21st Street, New York, NY
PRESENTATIONS AND DISCUSSANTS:Helena Sedláčková Gibbs, “Feasts and the Social Link” Paola Mieli, Discussant
Peter Gillespie, “The Subject of Precarious Work in the Psychoanalytic Clinic” Kareen Malone, Discussant
Ona Nierenberg, “The Psychoanalyst in the Public Hospital: Some Reflections Mark Stafford, Discussant
Mark Stafford, “Anew: Truth and Fiction” Salvatore F. Guido, Discussant Continue reading The Formation of the Analyst and the Social Link at Après-Coup
Click Here to Read: Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation hearing revealed his hidden similarity to Trump: The two appear to be a study in contrasts – but both display a remarkable lack of compassion. Their likeness could serve to justify Democrats’ opposition bu Lucia Graveson the Guardian website on March 25, 2017.
The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and The Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists Invite you to a Scientific Meeting
Friday, April 7, 2017 – 7:30 PM, FREUD’S DREAM THEORY REVISITED, PRESENTER: ARNOLD RICHARDS, M.D.
Freud saw the dream as translating thoughts from their derivatives to their unconscious source. The dream exists first in the patient’s present, in his immediate experience, rather than in his earlier trauma. The link between present anxiety and past trauma may exist, but this has to be demonstrated rather than asserted. For the Freudian, the didactic purpose may be to show the patient his unconscious, unfulfilled childhood wish, but this is also driven by an effort to fulfill that wish in the dream state. In my view, attention to the experience of the dream is the beginning, not the end point, of the task of getting to the analysand’s conflicted wishes. It has been hypothesized that dreams seek solutions for conflicts. I conclude that this view of dreams is more descriptive than explanatory, and does not offer us an explanation of why past trauma or current conflicts should be represented in a dream. Instead, I believe that dreams are an effort to deal with conflicts that stem from a wish/guilt dynamic, and contain a compromise formation in which wishes are fulfilled and punishment is executed. Dreams mediate the realms in which the id- Continue reading Freud’s Dream Theory Revisited with Arnold Richards at MITPP
