Click Here to Read: Professor talks psychoanalysis and history by David Kurkovskiy on the Yale Daily News website on February 26, 2014.
In Memorial Jim Hall 1930-2013
The Brain’s Inner Language
Click Here to Read: The Brain’s Inner Language By James Gorman in The New York Times on Febuary. 24, 2014.
When neurons in the brain of a live mouse, top, are active, they flash brightly. Dr. Clay Reid, above left, and colleagues at the Allen Institute for Brain Science are working with mice to better understand the human mind. Above center, areas of the mouse cortex related to vision, and connected to other parts involving visual perception. CreditZach Wise for The New York Times
Still Living the Dream – and Explaining
Click Here to Read: Still Living the Dream – and Explaining By Matthew Blanchard and Katelyn Zmigrodski on the Teacher’s College Columbia University Website on February 24, 2014.
Psychoanalytic Fair participants, from left: Mary Birarelli,Michael Levy, Marianne Tramelli,Aurelie Athan,Marie Hansen,Naomi Naiztat, Matthew Blanchard and Megha Sardana
Sigmund Freud Dies in England
Lacan on Psychoanalytic Savoir-Faire and the Sinthome with Adriana Passini and Martin Winn at Après-Coup
Après-Coup PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION
Friday, February 28, 2014, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
LACAN ON PSYCHOANALYTIC SAVOIR-FAIRE AND THE SINTHOME, Seminar
ADRIANA PASSINI and MARTIN WINN
Beginning with readings of selected classes from Lacan’s Seminar XI, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, we will address the notions of the unconscious, repetition, and transference, and Lacan’s idea of Continue reading Lacan on Psychoanalytic Savoir-Faire and the Sinthome with Adriana Passini and Martin Winn at Après-Coup
Sociology and Anthropology Monday: Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte (1798-1857) was born to conservative, royalist and Catholic parents. A precocious student with a photographic memory he graduated with top honours from the Lycée at Montpellier at the age of 14 ½. He passed the entrance examinations for the EcolePolytechnique with the highest marks in southern and central France, yet he was not yet 16 and had to wait a year to begin his studies at the Ecole. Comte became a student Continue reading Sociology and Anthropology Monday: Auguste Comte
Hanging Our Brains on the Tree of Life with Rob DeSalle at NYPSI
NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis
Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
www.nypsi.org
Saturday, March 1, 2014, 10 am – 12 pm
Rob DeSalle, Ph.D. Curator of Entomology American Museum of Natural History
Will present on Hanging Our Brains on the Tree of Life
Discussant: Robert Scharf, M.D Continue reading Hanging Our Brains on the Tree of Life with Rob DeSalle at NYPSI
The Jewish Gang That Pulled Off the Most Famous Bank Robbery in Communist History
Click Here to Read: The Jewish Gang That Pulled Off the Most Famous Bank Robbery in Communist History. A new Romanian film starring Vera Farmiga recreates a notorious incident with echoes in today’s European anti-Semitism By Jonathan Levin on the Tablet website on February 20, 2014.
A still from Irene Lusztig’s film Reconstruction, 2002. (Courtesy of Irene Lusztig)