Click Here to Read: Georg Groddeck: “A Pinch of Pepper” by Mark Poster.
This article previously appeared as: Poster, Mark. (Fall 1992). Georg Groddeck: “A Pinch of Pepper” in the Newsletter of the Psychoanalytic Society of New England, East and the Psychoanalytic Institute of New England, East, Inc Vol 5(1) pp. 1-10 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.
This was published in the PANY Bulletin, Spring, 2002. Obviously it was influenced by 9/11. It also refers to a spate of films at that time spurred by virtual reality, a theme that has been taken up again with the release of Avatar. It links with last month’s “Christmas post” in the reference to Anna Freud’s The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense.
“The suspicion and asceticism of the ego are primarily directed against the subject’s fixation to all the love objects of his childhood. The result of this is … that the young person tends to isolate himself; from this time on, he will live with the members of his family as though with strangers.” (A. Freud, 1936 p. 166)
“… you look around, what do you see—businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters, the very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy.” (The Matrix) Continue reading Living With Strangers: “The Matrix”
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There will be two book signings at the IP Books table at the APsaA conference at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in NYC on Friday, January 15, 2010. The first will be a Meet-The-Author with Sylvia Brody, Author of Beginning to Grow: Five Studies on Friday at 2 pm and the second will be a Meet-The-Author with Michael I. Good, Author of The Seduction Theory in its Second Century on Friday at 2:45 pm.
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Click Here to Read: Freud, Monet, Basquiat on view in Paris in 2010 by Claire Rosemberg and Pascale Mollard-Chenebenoit on the AFP Google website on January 11, 2010.
Click Here to Read: The Art of Lucian Freud on this website.
Click Here to Read: Lucian Freud’s early obsessions on this website.
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Click Here To Read: Transference to Religion and Religious Personnel by Alan W. Miller in the Proceedings of the New York Freudian Society.
This article previously appeared as Miller, Alan W. (Fall, 1986-Spring, 1987). Proceedings of the New York Freudian Society 2(1) pp. 11-20 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.
