And catch “Baseball Goes On The Psychatrist’s Couch” by Scott Hensley at National Public radio, here.
Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe now online
Read announcements in Sun Sentinel and in Library Journal
Then visit the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, and read the entry on Psychoanalysis by Arnold D. Richards.
Click Here to Read: Epic Encyclopedia Turns a Page in Study of Jewish Eastern Europe Reference By Eli Rosenblatt in the Jewish Daily Forward on April 18, 2008.
MMA’s rise? Freud would have a field day
MMA’s rise? Freud would have a field day: Dismissed by many as an ‘orgy of violence,’ mixed martial arts is a far cry from karate or jiu-jitsu.
Sigmund Freud was right. The father of psychiatry said aggression and sex are the two most powerful drives in humans.
Consider the raw rage and simmering eroticism that are expected to be on display among raucous fans at tonight’s Vancouver debut of Ultimate Fighting Championship at GM Place.
Read Douglas Todd’s piece in the Vancouver Sun – click here.
Sometimes a Baseball Is Just a Baseball
“Sometimes a Baseball Is Just a Baseball: When shrinks take on the national pastime, going ‘home’ has a whole new meaning.”
The shrinks are in Washington, D.C., this week for the annual meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association and they’ve spent a lot of time talking up their usual esoteric topics: Freud, dreams, and the superego.
Click here to read Claudia Kalb’s piece in Newsweek online.
Laurence Arthur Rickels – Psychoanalysis
Click here to access “Laurence Arthur Rickels. Psychoanalysis” – a three-part video on the European Graduate School web site, wherein Rickels explores Derrida’s notion of psychoanalysis as the one institution which addressed suffering and cruelty without recourse to metaphysical or metaphorical comforts.
What Good Soldiers Bear
Culture, Evolution and Dominance
June Poetry Monday: Laurel Blossom
POETRY MONDAY: June 3, 2010
Laurel Blossom
(Photo by Steven Haas)
Our June poet, Laurel Blossom, has published widely, in such journals and anthologies as The Paris Review, Harper’s, and Billy Collins’ 180 More: Exraordinary Poems for Every Day. Since her first published collection, a chapbook, Any Minute (Greenhouse Review Press, 1979), she has published four books, the most recent of which are a book-length narrative poem, Degrees of Latitude (Four Way Books, 2007) and Wednesday: New and Selected Poems (Ridgeway Press, 2004). Her poetry has been nominated for both a Pushcart Prize and the Elliston Prize.
Blossom has also edited two anthologies: Splash! Great Writing about Swimming (Ecco Press, 1996) and Many Lights in Many Windows: Twenty Years of Great Fiction and Poetry from The Writers Community (Milkweed Editions, 1997). She also serves on the editorial board of Heliotrope: a Journal of Poetry. Continue reading June Poetry Monday: Laurel Blossom