Approaching Primary Process Thinking with Secondary Processes Blazing by Robert Holt
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Click Here To Read:  Approaching Primary Process Thinking with Secondary Processes Blazing, Review of Primary Process Thinking: Theory, Measurement, and Research By Robert R. Holt Reviewed by Harriette Kaley.

This article originally appeared as: Kaley, Harriette, (2010). PsycCRITIQUES Vol. 55(22): 4 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.

Click Here to Read:  The Holt Rapaport Letters on this website.

Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture by Josef Joffe
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JoffeWednesday, December 3, 2014, 7:00 PM
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture by Josef Joffe

Dr. Josef Joffe, Photo by Vera Tammen.
Please Join us when Dr. Josef Joffe delivers the 57th annual Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, December 3, 2014 at the Center for Jewish History, where he will be introduced by Dr. Henry Kissinger.

In his lecture-The Golden Age of German-Jewry, 1871-1933 Is a Remake Possible?-Dr. Joffe will look back at the accomplishments of German Jews before the Holocaust and compare that period to the post-War Germany in which he grew up as the child Continue reading Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture by Josef Joffe

A psychoanalysis presented by Howard Bliwise, MDA at NYPSI
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THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
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The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute invites you to a clinical series: From the Chair to the Couch
We would like to invite you to the first presentation in our clinical case series designed for those interested in learning more about psychoanalytic training.

Please join us for the first case presentation in our series:
A psychoanalysis presented by Howard Bliwise, MDA
Discussants: Henry Mallard, MD and Sally Clement, PhD, LCSW Continue reading A psychoanalysis presented by Howard Bliwise, MDA at NYPSI

“Stranger by the Lake”
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by Herbert H. Stein

If it had been originally in English, the title of the film, Stranger By the Lake, could easily be seen as a double entendre. Anyone who has seen the film would agree that it is, indeed, “stranger” by the lake, an all-male gathering place at which nudity, public sexuality and murder are accepted as commonplace. The other aspect of the double entendre is, of course, a reference to the stranger who is met by the lake, a place in which couples pair off, make love and fall in love with relative anonymity.

But that is if it had been originally in English. In fact, this is a French film, and the translators, presumably with the agreement of the film makers, applied that title to a film with the original title, L’Inconnu du Lac. I know from reading Camus in freshman French that The Stranger is L’Etranger in the original French. L’Inconnu translates literally as “the unknown.” Rather than remove the double entendre, this appears to add further layers of suggestion.

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