Dear colleagues,

This is the first week of 2014. Our international website has posts relating to future, the present but also a number of “backward glances” as one tends to have at the beginning of something new. Thus we remember Jim Hall and his music, and do a retrospective on Freud’s early life and books of that time.
I am struck by the juxtaposition of the future, the present and past in art and culture, the similarities and differences and how this shapes our current psychoanalytic thinking – different yet ever the same.

My choices this week consist of both: