Movies Monday: Nuremberg

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Click Here to Read: Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today—the 1948 documentary restored By Clara Weiss on the World Socialist Web Site on December 5, 2016.

Click Here to Read and View: Restored film gives fresh insight into trials of Nazi war criminals: Nuremberg: Its Lesson For Today was completed in 1948 but never shown outside Germany until now by Owen Bowcott on the Guardian website on February 23, 2012.

Click Here to View: NUREMBERG TRIALS HISTORIC FILM “ITS LESSON FOR TODAY” Short Version on YouTube. Continue reading Movies Monday: Nuremberg

POETRY MONDAY:  December 5, 2016

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Jayne Benjulian

 

Welcome back, everyone.  As I keyed in this date, my mind jumped ahead and back to “a day that will live in infamy.”  Of course.  But we’ve had many infamous days since then  — some very recent —  and we have to remember and hold on to the fact that poetry helps to keep us not only alive but human.

Our new poet today is one who was new to me until a short time ago, when I discovered her here in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts.  Her poems were a delightful surprise.  It was also a surprise to learn that she has just come out with a first collection, although she has been publishing in many fine literary magazines for some time.  Continue reading POETRY MONDAY:  December 5, 2016

On The Political Action of Psychoanalysis: A Memoir with Steven Reisner at CFS

On The Political Action of Psychoanalysis: A Memoir
One-Session Program (2 Contact Hours)
Presenter: Steven Reisner, PhD
Date: Friday, December 16, 2016
Time: 8:00-10:00pm
Location: Mt. Sinai, Hatch Auditorium, Madison Ave @ 100th St., NYC

“When all is said and done, all resistance is a rupture in thought through the declaration of what the situation is, and the foundation of a practical possibility opened up through this declaration.” – Alain Badiou, Metapolitics, p. 8

My aim is approach the question of the formation and development of an ethical self. I will argue that each individual comes upon a crossroad moment where personal and political ethics confronts Continue reading On The Political Action of Psychoanalysis: A Memoir with Steven Reisner at CFS

Psychology Sunday: Susan Blackmore

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Click Here to Read:  Susan Blackmore on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read: Memes and “temes” Ted Talk with Susan Blackmore on the Ted Talks Website in 2008.

Click Here to Read: A hundred walked out of my lecture by Sue Blackmore on the Richard Dawkins Foundation website on August 18, 2014.

Click Here to Read: Dr. Susan Blackmore’s Near-Death Experience Research on the Near Death.com website. Continue reading Psychology Sunday: Susan Blackmore

Film Screening: In Utero at the Center for Applied Judasim

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FILM SCREENING, DISCUSSION,
AND WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION
SUN. 11 DEC., 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM

Join us for an exploration of the powerful
psychological forces shaping our lives and human
society – the sources of human experience and
motivation in the womb.

CENTER FOR APPLIED JUDAISM 109 East 39th St, Manhattan (bet. Park & Lex.)
Cosponsored by the Society of Jewish Science and the International Psychohistorical Association
For more information contact Brian D’Agostino at bdagostino@verizon.net or Terry Katz at 212-682-2626