International Psychoanalysis

In Clint Eastwood’s film, Unforgiven, he plays a familiar role, a psychopathic killer hero.  In this film, however, he appears to take an introspective approach to his character and those who admire his character.  In the process, the film allows us an opportunity to examine some of the dynamics of killing and of our interest in seeing it on the screen.  Ultimately, it provides us with another fantasy designed to defeat death.

The film centers around William Munny, played by Eastwood.  In a prologue, and in the early scenes of the film, we learn that he had been an outlaw and killer, but had been reformed by his wife, Claudia.  She had died in 1878 of small pox, two to three years before the action of the film, leaving Munny with the care of his young son and daughter.

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The following books have been reviewed on this website and are recommended summer reading: 

 Illuminations by Eva Hoffman
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 The Center Cannot Hold by Elyn R. Saks
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The Struggle Against Mourning by Ilany Kogan
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 Revolution in Mind by George Makari
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 Haunted by Parents by Leonard Shengold
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 Bettelheim: Living and Dying by David James Fisher
Click Here for Excepts from this Book

The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge, M.D.
Click Here for Jane S. Hall’s Review
Click Here for Abigail Zuger’s Review

The Death of Sigmund Freud by Mark Edmundson
Click Here for the Review

Bloomsbury/Freud: The Letters of James and Alix Strachey 1924-1925 edited by Perry Meisel and Walter Kendrick
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Review of Freud’s Requiem: Mourning, memory, and the invisible history of a summer walk By Matthew von Unwerth
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 The Road to Unity by Leo Rangel
Click Here for the Review by Jeffrey Golland
Click Here for the Review by Arthur Lynch
Click Here for the Review by Arnold D. Richards

From Both Sides of the Couch: Reflections of a Psychoanalyst, Daughter, Tennis Player, and Other Selves by Fern W. Cohen
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 Broken Sons/Broken Fathers: A Pschoanalyst Remembers by Gerald J. Gargiulo.
Click Here for an Excerpt from this Book

Feder, Stuart. Charles Ives: My Father’s Song. New Haven: Yale Univ Press. 1992.

Feder, Stuart. Gustav Mahler: A Life in Crisis. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2004.
Click Here to Read:  Martin Nass’s Review of this Book.
Click Here to Read: Alexander Stein’s Review of this Book

 The late Max Weinreich was cofounder of the YIVO Institute in Vilna and one of the world’s most important scholars of the Yiddish language. He completed History of the Yiddish Language, his magnum opus, shortly before his death.  Max Weinreich used psychoanalytic precepts to study the psychology of Eastern European  adolescents, and translated four of Freud’s works into Yiddish.
 
 
 
Click Here to Read: Wikipedia Article on Max Weinreich  
 
 
  
 
  
 
Max Weinreich 

 Hitler’s Professors: The Part of Scholarship in Germany’s Crimes Against the Jewish People by  Max Weinreich. Reprint with new introduction by Sir Martin Gilbert 1999 / Yale University Press / $20.00

This classic book examines the role of leading scholars, philosophers,  historians, and scientists—in Hitler’s rise to power and eventual war of extermination against the Jews. Written in 1946 by one of the greatest scholars of European Jewish history and culture, it is now reissued with a new introduction by the prominent historian Martin Gilbert.

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