Archive for March 4th, 2008

Letter to the Editor on Taking Play Seriously from Leon Hoffman

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Click Here to Read:  Taking Play Seriously by  Robin Marantz Henig on February 17th in the New York Times Magazine

Letter to Editor
NYT Magazine

Your February 17, 2008 article, “Taking Play Seriously,” is a very comprehensive discussion of the importance of play in human development. One area, however, was missing: The importance of recognizing that for children play has meaning. (more…)

International Psychoanalytic Conference On Love

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

International Psychoanalytic Conference 
On Love 
Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workshops (APW)
March 28- 30, 2008
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
 
 The “malady of being two” [mal d'être deux] from which . . . patients suffer hardly frees them from Narcissus’ problem. It is a mortal passion that ends up taking its own life.
-Lacan, Le Minotaure (more…)