Freud the philosopher: Before fathering psychoanalysis, Freud first slayed the dominant Cartesian intellectual tradition of mind-body dualism

Click Here to Read: Freud the philosopher: Before fathering psychoanalysis, Freud first slayed the dominant Cartesian intellectual tradition of mind-body dualism by David Livingstone Smith on the Aeon website.

Sigmund Freud. Google Images. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Google Images. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Eva Cybulska on Freud’s unconscious debt to Schopenhauer and Nietzsche

Click Here to Read: Psychoanalysis & Philosophy (II): Eva Cybulska on Freud’s unconscious debt to Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on the Philosophy Now website, Issue 68.

Gustav-Adolf Schultze Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Portrait photograph of Arthur Schopenhauer Date: March 1859: Source Frankfurt am Main University Library
Author Schäfer, Johann This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author’s life plus 70 years or less. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

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Philosophy of Mind: An Overview

Click Here to Read: Philosophy of Mind: An Overview by Laura Weed takes us on a tour of the mind/brain controversy on the Philosophy Now website, Issue 87.

Outer surface of the human brain: Date between 1894 and 1895: Source Popular Science Monthly Volume 46 Image: Sanger Brown M.D.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author’s life plus 70 years or less.

The Appeal of Tragedy with Paul Schwaber, Ph.D. at NYPSI

NYPSI: WORKS IN PROGRESS SEMINAR: The Appeal of Tragedy with Paul Schwaber, Ph.D.

Wed, November 7, 2018 at 8:00 pm. New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, 247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves), $20 – General Admission, $15 – Student Admission, No charge for NYPSI members/students
Register HERE, visit nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900

Works in Progress Seminar: The Appeal of Tragedy

Looking closely at Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and King Lear, and guided by both Aristotle and Freud, Dr. Schwaber will explore the special appeal of tragedy as a literary form, the ways verbal art imitates significant human action and the illuminating experience it enables. Continue reading The Appeal of Tragedy with Paul Schwaber, Ph.D. at NYPSI