Sigrid Nunez’s National Book Award-winning novel, The Friend

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 18, 2020January 18, 2020 Books, Literature

Click Here to Read: Sigrid Nunez’s National Book Award-winning novel, The Friend: One form of contemporary misanthropy By James McDonald
on the World Socialist Web Site on January 18, 2020.

The Representation and Self-Experience of the Body in Literature and Psychoanalysis with Merle Molofsky at NPAP

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 18, 2020January 18, 2020 Literature, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Merle Molofsky’s Presentation at the Meeting on The Representation and Self-Experience of the Body in Literature and Psychoanalysis with Lee Jenkins, PhD, LP; Merle Molofsky, MFA, LP at NPAP on Friday, January 10, 2020.

POETRY MONDAY: January 6, 2020

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 6, 2020January 6, 2020 Literature

Hilde Weisert

Good morning – and a Happy, Happy New Year 2020, everyone! It is indeed, hard to believe, isn’t it? Not only a new year but a new decade – one in which we hope to bury or rid the world of the unpleasantness and even horror of 2019. I say “the world,” because it isn’t only here in the U.S. that we have been experiencing so many negative things. At any rate, poetry is something that helps us to live our lives and to stay resilient. Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: January 6, 2020

Found in Translation

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 31, 2019December 31, 2019 History, Literature

Click Here to Read: Found in Translation: A Lithuanian cartoonist and translator travelled to New York to find missing sections of young Jews’ autobiographies, hidden in Vilnius during the Second World War By Tyler Foggatt in the New Yorker on December 23, 2019.
Image: Khaykl Lunski in the Strashun Library in Vilnius. Public Domain via Wikimedia COmmons

After a health scare, I learned my heart is strong—but now I’m worried about my faith

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 27, 2019December 27, 2019 Literature, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: After a health scare, I learned my heart is strong—but now I’m worried about my faith By Valerie Schultz on the American Magazine website on December 26, 2019.
Example traces of heart rate and QT interval variability Image: Mathias Baumert. Public Domain via wikimedia Commons.

Stories of the Flood: The Venezuelan Flood of December 1999

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 2, 2019December 2, 2019 History, Literature, Politics

Click Here to Read: Note from Daniel Benveniste about Stories from the Flood.
Click Here to Read: Stories of the Flood: The Venezuelan Flood of December 1999 by Daniel Benveniste and other authors.
Click Here to Read: Cuentos de la Inundación: La Inundación Venezolana De Diciembre 1999 by Daniel Benveniste y otros autores.
Click Here to Read: Posts by and about Daniel Benveniste on this website.
Click Here to Purchase: The Interwoven Lives of Sigmund, Anna and W. Ernest Freud by Daniel Benveniste on IPBooks.net
Click Here to Purchase: Anna Freud in the Hampstead Clinic: Letters from Anna Freud to Humberto Nágera edited by Daniel Benveniste on IPBooks.net

Review of Women: Biology, Culture and Literature by Howard Schwartz, Reviewed by Karen Wescott

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 30, 2019November 30, 2019 History, Literature, Psychoanalysis, Science

Click Here to Read: Review of Women: Biology, Culture and Literature by Howard Schwartz, Reviewed by Karen Wescott.
Click Here to Purchase: Women: Biology, Culture and Literature by Howard Schwartz from IPBooks.net
Click here to Purchase: Hide and Seek/Hidden and Found: In Search of a Balanced Life: Psychoanalytic Memoirs, Stories, and Essays by Howard L. Schwartz.
Click Here to Purchase: All Aboard by Howard L. Schwartz, MD