Click Here to Read: The power of the apology TedTalk at LeHigh River by Robert M. Gordon on YouTube.
Kafka Letter to His Father
‘A gift-wrapped package of poo’: Why a man left a box of manure for Steven Mnuchin
H.G. Wells vs. George Orwell: A Scientific Debate for the Ages
Debunking Myths About Estrangement
Click Here to Read: Debunking Myths About Estrangement: New research challenges the deeply held notion that family relationships
can’t be dissolved and suggests that estrangement is not all that uncommon By Catherine Saint Louis in The New York Times on December 20, 2017.
Family. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Best of 2017: Our Top 20 Exhibitions Around the World
Click Here to Read: Best of 2017: Our Top 20 Exhibitions Around the World: We traveled around the world this year to look for some of the best art exhibitions and found some gems in Germany, South Africa, Spain, UAE, UK, and beyond on the HyperAllergic website on December 22, 2017.
Front view of Winter Palace, where Russian Tsars used to spend their winter months hiding the bitter cold. Sasha Petite from Singapore. Public Domain Wikimedia Commons
Laplanche’s Revolution in Psychoanalysis with Jonathan House at IPTAR
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IPTAR Program Committee: Jeanne Even (Chair), Eva Atsalis, Susan Berger, Carolyn Ellman, Steven Ellman, Susan Finkelstein, Anna Fishzon, Judy Ann Kaplan, Masha Mimran, Bruce Reis, Jamieson Webster
PROGRAM, 9am — BREAKFAST, 9:30am – 10:30am — Dr. Jonathan House
Après-coup, Freud’s Nachträglichkeit, is an essential psychoanalytic concept structuring each of four concepts, four mental processes that lie at the foundation of Freud’s thinking: psychic trauma, repression, the creation of the unconscious, and the creation of infantile sexuality. It is argued here that infantile sexual drives, in contrast to the self-preservative instincts, arise from a two-step process of translation and repression in which the residues of failed translation become source-objects of the drives. These residues of failed translation have an associative resonance with adult sexuality, and the child is driven to ongoing attempts to translate them, to make them meaningful après coup. Thus, après-coup is at the heart of the human subject as a sexual creature who requires, desires, and creates meaning.
10:30am – 11am – Response by Dr. Doris Silverman
11am – 11:15am — COFFEE BREAK
11:15am – 12:30pm – Discussion with Dr. House, Dr. Silverman, moderated by Dr. Jared Russell (with audience Q & A)
12:30pm – 2pm — LUNCH
2pm – 3:30pm — Clinical case presentation by Dr. House with a short video
3:30pm – 4:30pm — Plenary discussion open to the audience
Jonathan House, MD specialized in internal medicine but left his clinical Continue reading Laplanche’s Revolution in Psychoanalysis with Jonathan House at IPTAR
Psychology Sunday: Anna Freud
Click Here to Read: Anna Freud on Wikipedia
Click Here to Read: Why Freud Matters: Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, and the Skeptical Humanist Tradition by Raymond Barglow on the Skeptics website.
Click Here to Read: Anna Freud’s Diagnostic Profile: Then and Now by Guest Editors by Norka Malberg, , Psy.D. & Inge-Martine Pretorius , Ph.D., D.Psych. in Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy in Volume 16, Issue 2, 127-130, 2017.
Click Here to Read: Letters between Anna Freud and Heinz Kohut, 1964-1969.
Click Here to Read: Radical Innovator and Staunch Conservative: Anna Freud’s Wartime Work and Contribution to Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice Lecture by Inge Pretorius on the Freud Museum website. Continue reading Psychology Sunday: Anna Freud
Modern women in the land of Genghis Khan
Seidenberg Prize
The Chicago Institute is very pleased to be sponsoring a unique one-time paper prize this year for the two best papers on “Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Problems of Incarceration.” Since this prize is new with a short time line (deadline to submit papers is March 1), we need help ensuring that people hear about it and have a chance to submit a paper.
We’d greatly appreciate it if you could circulate the attached announcement to your contacts–any colleagues, graduate students and friends who might be interested in contributing a paper. The first-place award is $15,000 and the second-place award is $5,000.
More information is also available at our website, chicagoanalysis.org.
Denton’s Law Firm made this prize possible in honor of Institute Board member Harold Hirshman, who worked for years pro bono on a class action law suit known as Rasho. The settlement in the Rasho case provides for personnel and facilities for mental health services for prisoners who are mentally ill.
Commenting on the settlement, Harold said, “This truly is a humane and monumental settlement that will have a lasting impact on the Continue reading Seidenberg Prize