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Hiddensee by Annie Freud review – a painterly imagination
Click Here to Read: Hiddensee by Annie Freud review – a painterly imagination by Fiona Sampson on the Guardian website on January 9, 2021.
Cropped image of Annie Freud speaking in public, eldest daughter of Lucien Freud. Image: https://www.flickr.com/people/43860468@N02 Public Domain via Wikipedia Commons
POETRY MONDAY: JANUARY 4, 2021
Merle Molofsky
Good morning, everyone. Here in the Northeastern U.S., we’re buried in snow, which is not atypical for this time of year in this region. But it’s okay to experience something that is not atypical, in a year that has been anything but.
Although, worldwide, we’ve had some good news about vaccines and even a bit about our democracies, many of us are still in mourning and those that aren’t, still worried.
But, as always, we look to poetry to heal our souls and to help us try to mend the broken world. Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: JANUARY 4, 2021
The King of Warsaw
A Hanukkah Tale From Old Russia
Click Here to Read: A Hanukkah Tale From Old Russia: A mysterious czarist soldier tries to persuade his community he’s Jewish by Curt Leviant on the Tablet website on December 16, 2020. Hanukkah menorah, Russia, 1890, brass, National Museum of American Jewish History. Imagea: Wmpearl Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Memory’s Eyes by Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau
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American Board of Psychoanalysis Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhD, FABP
MEMORY’S EYES is a contemporary New York Oedipus novel. It is written for readers who enjoy playing with concepts and storylines, here namely the classical Oedipus myth, Sophocles’ three Theban plays, the psychoanalytical concept of the Oedipus complex, and its pop-cultural adaptations in cartoons and jokes. Consequently, this novel is meant to be tragic and funny, playful, but also uncomfortable. Ann, a modern Antigone, candidate in training at a psychoanalytic institute, relives and rethinks the complex story of her wide-ranging family clan. The Prologue reminds the readers of the myth’s characters and destinies, and yet they will find themselves simultaneously knowing and not knowing, anticipating and being surprised by the truth’s revelations.
“In Memory’s Eyes Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau renews the emotional richness of psychoanalysis and ancient myth. Even Continue reading Memory’s Eyes by Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau
A Jew Is a Jew Is a Jew
Click Here to Read: A Jew Is a Jew Is a Jew: Novelist and critic Clive James and theater director Jonathan Miller, who died within days of each other this fall, shared breadth of passions and influential cultural positions. One was Jewish. The other was not—but he understood Jews better by Howard Jacobson on the Tablet Website on December 11, 2020.
Jonathan Miller appearing on “After Dark” Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. Clive James and Nefertiti in the Flak Tower.
