Click Here to Read: Pardon Plea by Adolf Eichmann, Nazi War Criminal, Is Made Public By Isabel Kershner in The New York Times on january 27, 2016.
Philosophy Thursday: Allan Bloom
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Click Here to Read: The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom on wikipedia.
Click Here to Read: Re-opening the American Mind. Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind remains as important as ever, and as misunderstood, 25 years after the 1980s culture wars By Liel Leibovitz on the Tablet Website on April 11, 2012. Continue reading Philosophy Thursday: Allan Bloom
How the Brain Reacts to Scrambled Stories
Click Here to Read: How the Brain Reacts to Scrambled Stories; Research shows that people tend to prefer linear narratives, but can also be engaged by just the right amount of disruption by max Green in The Atlantic Monthoy on January 27, 2016.
A still from Citizen Kane, one of the most popular films of its time to experiment with nonlinear story structureMercury Productions / RKO Radio Productions / Turner Entertainment Company
Scientists Move Closer to Understanding Schizophrenia’s Cause
Click Here to Read: Scientists Move Closer to Understanding Schizophrenia’s Cause By Benedict Carey in The New York Times on January 27, 2016.
An image from a fluorescent microscope showing C4 proteins, in green, located at the synapses in a culture of human neurons. CreditHeather de Rivera/McCarroll Lab/Harvard, via Associated Press
Psychoanalysis is a Human Tradition Passed On from One Generation to the Next
Psychoanalysis is a Human Tradition Passed On from One Generation to the Next
(Acceptance speech by Daniel Benveniste upon receiving an Honorary Membership in the American Psychoanalytic Association presented by Dr. Mark Smaller)
I am delighted this evening to accept this Honorary Membership in the American Psychoanalytic Association. It is, indeed, an honor and a great pleasure, as well.
When it comes to developing a professional identity, training is essential. But two other ways of further developing that professional identity are through professional affiliation, with institutes and associations, and/or through lineage. Being an outsider all my life has naturally made me incline less toward belonging and more toward lineage. As I like to put it, psychoanalysis is a human tradition passed on from one generation to the next and tonight I find Continue reading Psychoanalysis is a Human Tradition Passed On from One Generation to the Next
Sigmund Freud – Anna Freud: Correspondence, 1904-1938
Click Here to Read: Sigmund Freud – Anna Freud: Correspondence, 1904-1938. edited by Ingeborg Meyer-Palmedo and Translated by Nick Somers, Reviewed by Hannah S. Decker.
This review, by Hannah S. Decker, originally appeared in October 2015 on H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online.
Hannah S. Decker, Professor of History at the University of Houston, is the author of The Making of DSM-III: A Diagnostic Manual’s Conquest of American Psychiatry (Oxford). The book was awarded a Special Presidential Commendation by the American Psychiatric Association.
Writer’s Wednesday: Marianne Moore
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Click Here to Read: Marianne Moore 1887–1972 on the Poetry Foundation website.
Click Here to Read: Marianne Moore Interviewed by Donald Hall, The Art of Poetry No. 4, in the Paris Review Summer-Fall 1961 No. 26.
Click Here to Read: All About My Mother: Marianne Moore’s family romance by Dan Chiasson in The New Yorker on November 11, 2013. Continue reading Writer’s Wednesday: Marianne Moore
A BBC journalist in Israel pointed his camera up to the sky and caught something amazing
Click Here to View: Holes in the Door Posts, Poem by Eugene Mahon
Through the holes
In the doorposts
You can see
Memory
Peering back at you
If you dare to see
What survives
What wouldn’t be
Destroyed.
Cast no cold eye
Horseman:
Put your ear
To the holes in the doorposts
The screams that you hear
Are your own.
–Eugene Mahon
Click Here to Read: Witnessing the death of Yiddish language and culture: Holes in the Doorposts by Arnold Richards. Continue reading Holes in the Door Posts, Poem by Eugene Mahon
