Click Here to Read: Something Weird Is Happening on Venus: The discovery of a strange gas in its atmosphere puts the planet “into the realm of a perhaps inhabited world,” a researcher says. by Marina Koren on the Atlantic website on September 14, 2020 .
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Click Here to Read and View: US election: The white supremacist grateful for Donald Trump: Race and identity has proved to be a controversial issue in the run-up to the US presidential election in November. North America Correspondent, Aleem Maqbool, has been hearing from voters in Whitefish, Montana, about their views on the influence of the far-right on the BBC News website on September 22, 2016.
Click Here to Download: Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau – Driven to Preserve Self and Object on the IPA Talks On Psychoanalysis Podcast.
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In today’s episode Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau will present her talk titled “Driven to preserve self and object” where she eloquently investigates the structuring function of the object in tension with the subject and its drives; the role of the aggression as an intensified expression of a need; and her original term “Lethe”, describing the energy of these preservative drives.Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, (PHD) is a Training and Supervising Analyst of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and the Swiss Psychoanalytic Society. She has Continue reading Driven to Preserve Self and Object: Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau’s Podcast
Donald Trump’s Authoritarian Proclivities: A Personal Perspective
As an immigrant who came to the United States to escape the potential threat of Soviet authoritarianism, I have grave concerns that Donald Trump has authoritarian desires and, if given the chance, would move America in an authoritarian direction.
My viewpoint is deeply informed by my personal history. Nearly two decades ago I was struck by the following quote: “The most important event of my life occurred before I was born.” This quote from the son of a Holocaust survivor, was cited by Dora Apel, in her 2002 book, Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing. Although I’ve had my share of trauma, I resonated deeply with this quote ever since I first read it.
I was born in postwar Europe in 1953. My parents immigrated to the US with my sister and me in 1959, after they feared Soviet Continue reading Op-Ed on Donald Trump by Jan Van Schaik MD
Click Here to Read: Inventing the Karaites: A story of historical forgery and fraud that saved a Jewish community from conscription and death, at the price of their authentic history and faith by Daniel J. Lasker on the Tablet website on September 11, 2020.
Abraham Firkovich. Image: National Library of Russia. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Dear colleagues,
In terms of doing something- a good friend’s son was involved in this video production on the COVID19 response of the president and his staff. I’ve been told they would like it as widely disseminated as possible. I think it speaks very well to the dangers we are all facing. It is called American Pathogen
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I do think we need to be very careful of both wild analysis and thinking we as analysts are unique in our knowledge and viewpoints. But we must do something and being effective advocates of change and ethics and truth, should be the task of everyone including analysts.
It is a dangerous situation, but not 1933 Germany. It is 2020 which makes it frightening in a different way. The climate issues, systemic Continue reading American Pathogen
