International Psychoanalysis » Controversial http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net A psychoanalytic slant on the world...with support from the American Psychoanalytic Foundation Wed, 23 May 2012 23:21:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 APsaA’s Long March to Inclusion: The role of the internet in organizational change by Arnold Richards http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/2011/05/06/apsaas-long-march-to-inclusion-the-role-of-the-internet-in-organizational-change-by-arnold-richards/ http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/2011/05/06/apsaas-long-march-to-inclusion-the-role-of-the-internet-in-organizational-change-by-arnold-richards/#comments Fri, 06 May 2011 16:30:03 +0000 Tamar Schwartz http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/?p=2111 Click Here to Read: APsaA’s Long March to Inclusion: The role of the internet in organizational change by Arnold Richards.  Paper to be given at the Conference Listening in the Age of Google – Clinical Perspectives and Social Action at NAAP on October 18th, 2008. 

Click here for Info: On the NAAP Conference: Listening in the Age of Google – Clinical Perspectives and Social Action on October 18th, 2008.

Click Here To View: Powerpoint for this Presentation by Arnold Richards

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2. So if neither leeway (access to alternatives) nor sourceness (agentinitiation) alone, nor both of them together are sufficient for ‘free will’, are they necessary?

3. This leads to my leap: a) For me there is no fact of the matter (at least none that we can discern) about whether or not there is free will
in a deterministic universe. The ‘is’ here is the ontologic ‘is’. b) But there is an epistemological fact of the matter;and c) For us humans the concept of free will is (and should be) regarded strictly as an epistemological concept. As such our beliefs that we have leeway (access to alternatives) and sourceness (agent initiative) are necessary and sufficient.

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Click Here to Read:  Will Japan face a mental health crisis? by Evelyn Bromet, Special to CNN on the CNN Opinion website on March 16, 2011 1.



Evelyn Bromet

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Click Here to View:  Inhale! on the Weimar Art and Modernity website on March 9, 2011.

Vincent van Gogh, Skull Smoking a Cigarette, 1886

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Click Here to Read: Illinois Governor to Abolish Death Penalty on the Fox News.com website on March 9, 2011.

Click Here to Read: Illinois abolishes the death penalty on the BBC News website on March 9, 2011.

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Click Here to Read:  Iran Live Blog: 25 Bahman / 14 February by Muhammad Sahimi, Josh ShahRyar, Dan Geist, Tehran Bureau Staff, and Correspondents on February 14, 2011.

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Click Here to Listen to: Podcast about  Egypt on the NPR website on Friday, February 11, 2011.

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Click Here to Read: What Science Teaches Dictators About the Likelihood of Revolution By Jeffrey Kluger in Time Magazine on February 2, 2011.

Egyptian demonstrators gather at Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Feb. 1, 2011

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Click Here to Read:  Al Jazeera Lets Slavoj Žižek Sound off on Egyptian Revolution and Western Meddling by Dj Tangburn on the dt Death and Taxes website on February 7, 2011.

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Click Here to Read:  Why I Call Myself a Socialist: Is the World Really a Stage? by Wallace Shawn on the Truthout website on February 03, 2011.

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