International Journal of Controversial Discussions Issue Volume #3 Issue # 2

By Tamar SchwartzApril 6, 2016December 19, 2025 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: The International Journal of Controversial Discussions Volume #3 Issue #2. The theme of the issue is Primary Femininity: Discussions on a Central Identity, with a target paper by Arlene Kramer Richards, Ed.D and edited by M. Sagman Kayatekin, M.D. There is also a paper entitled Psychoanalytic History—Sketches The Power of Exclusion (An Ode to Sheldon Bach and Sándor Ferenczi) by Carolyn Ellman with commentary by Ph.D. with a response by Giselle Galdi. This journal is supported by a generous grant from the American Psychoanalytic Foundation.

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What Breaks Us Also Shapes Us

By Tamar SchwartzJune 24, 2026June 24, 2026 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: What Breaks Us Also Shapes Us: There’s a Positive Side to Enduring the Inevitable Traumas of Life (Vol. 6; Issue 24) by Alan Michael Karbelnig, PhD on his Journeys Into the Unconscious Mind website on June 17. 2026.

Paolo Monti (1908–1982). Biblioteca Europea di Informazione e Cultura. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

With Win in Washington, Socialists Have Momentum in Urban America

By Tamar SchwartzJune 24, 2026June 24, 2026 Politics

Click Here to Read: With Win in Washington, Socialists Have Momentum in Urban America: Democratic socialists, harnessing generational frustration over affordability, lead New York and Seattle and are knocking on the door in Los Angeles and Washington By Campbell RobertsonJill Cowan and Anna Griffin in the New York Times on June 22, 2026.

Janeese Lewis George taken on September 30, 2023. Image: Council of the District of Columbia. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Mozart manuscript back to life

By Tamar SchwartzJune 24, 2026June 24, 2026 Arts, History

Click Here to Read: Mozart manuscript back to life: A long-forgotten manuscript by composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart will be brought to life this weekend in Paris. The newly rediscovered work – composed in 1778 when the Austrian prodigy was just 22 – will be performed in public for the first time ever at France’s National Library on the France 24 website on June 19,2026.

Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ImageL Barbara Krafft (1764–1825). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Fantasies of Omnipotence and Legibility

By Tamar SchwartzJune 23, 2026June 23, 2026 Psychoanalysis, Science

Click Here to Read: Fantasies of Omnipotence and Legibility on CAI Currents on the The American Psychoanalyst Substack on June 23, 2026.

The Walls Have Ears

By Tamar SchwartzJune 13, 2026June 13, 2026 History

Click Here to Read: The Walls Have Ears by Mark Rothschild on his Accidental Wisdom Substack on June 13, 2026.

Vienna’s Leopoldstadt district. Image: Ralf Roletschek. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Leaving Us Behind: Wall Street is celebrating. Everyone else is wondering what happened to the future

By Tamar SchwartzJune 13, 2026June 13, 2026 Politics

Click Here to Read: Leaving Us Behind: Wall Street is celebrating. Everyone else is wondering what happened to the future by Elliot Kirschner from Through the Fog substack on June 13, 2026.

First Launch of Space X Falcon Heavy. Image: Daniel Oberhaus. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

How to spot these electric-blue clouds that form at the edge of space

By Tamar SchwartzJune 13, 2026June 13, 2026 Science

Click Here to Read: How to spot these electric-blue clouds that form at the edge of space Forming 50 miles above Earth’s surface, noctilucent clouds offer a rare glimpse into one of the least-understood layers of the atmosphere By Stefanie Waldek on the National Geographic website on June 11, 2026.

Noctilucent clouds, Kuresoo bog, Soomaa National Park, Estonia. Image: Martin Koitmäe. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.