Chile: Notes from a Revolt

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 14, 2020March 14, 2020 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: Chile: Notes from a Revolt by Ariel Dorfman in the New York Review of Books Daily website on March 13, 2020.
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Plague Weddings

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 14, 2020March 14, 2020 Books, History, Uncategorized

Click Here to Read: Plague Weddings: Rokhl’s Golden City: Long before the coronavirus, other epidemics led Jews to create some very strange rituals to ward off disease By Rokhl Kafrissen on the Tablet website on March 13, 2020.

New Forms of Melancholia with Massimo Recalcati at Apres-Coup

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 10, 2020March 10, 2020 EVENTS

Giorgio De Chirico, Les jeux terribles, 1925-1926.
FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS New Forms of Melancholia Massimo Recalcati Wednesday, April 8, 2020 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm zasa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at New York University 24 West 12th Street, NYC

The Freudian clinic has described melancholia as a moral delusion mostly based on a sense of guilt. Due to the way in which repression is now being understood, we are identifying forms of melancholia that indicate an Continue reading New Forms of Melancholia with Massimo Recalcati at Apres-Coup

The controversy surrounding Jeanine Cummins’s novel American Dirt

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 9, 2020March 9, 2020 Books, Literature

Click Here to Read: The controversy surrounding Jeanine Cummins’s novel American Dirt By Sandy English on the World Socialist Web Site on March 3, 2020.

Delegate battle ahead likely favors Biden

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 9, 2020March 9, 2020 Politics

Click Here to Read: Delegate battle ahead likely favors Biden by Reid Wilson on the The Hill website on March 4, 2020.
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