The Brain’s Inner Language

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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

Lacan on Psychoanalytic Savoir-Faire and the Sinthome with Adriana Passini and Martin Winn at Après-Coup

Sociology and Anthropology Monday: Auguste Comte

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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

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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)