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By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 16, 2019March 11, 2019 Books, Literature, Psychoanalysis

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Freud’s Signorelli Lapse in Context

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 5, 2019February 7, 2019 Literature, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Freud’s Signorelli Lapse in Context by Robert L. Lippman.

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Rhyme and reason: why poetry is winning over new audience

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 4, 2019February 4, 2019 Literature

Click Here to Read: Rhyme and reason: why poetry is winning over new audiences: Mindfulness and cognitive therapy have given new avenues to explore an age-old genre by Justin Thomas on the National Opinion website on February 3, 2019.

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POETRY MONDAY: February 4, 2019

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 4, 2019February 5, 2019 Literature

Kate Sontag

Good morning, everyone – and I hope those of you in areas where it’s frigid are able to stay indoors where you can be safe and warm (or hygge, as we’ve learned to say now). I’m always impressed, as you must be, by people who manage to get to work on days like these, still cheerful and smiling, even though they may be worried about how their children are doing when schools are closed.

I met our poet for today, Kate Sontag, only recently, although I’ve had a book of hers on a table close by for many years. Some of you may already know of it: After Confession: Poetry as Autobiograpy, Edited by Kate Sontag and David Graham (Graywolf, 2001). It’s a collection of essays from a number of the best-known poets of our day, some of whom, like Colette Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: February 4, 2019

Bringing Yiddish to the Negev

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 30, 2019January 30, 2019 Literature

Click Here to Read: Bringing Yiddish to the Negev: Rokhl’s Golden City: How poet Avrom Sutzkever became a giant in a country that rejected his language By Rokhl Kafrissen on the Tablet Magazine website on January 30, 2019.

Image: Unsplash. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

The unimportance of Ernest Hemingway

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 29, 2019January 29, 2019 Literature

Click Here to Read: The unimportance of Ernest Hemingway: why should we bother reading him anymore? He was once considered the master craftsman of American letters, but on close inspection the entire corpus is full of artistic failure by Paul Levy on the Spectator website in January 2019.

Ernest Hemingway with Lauren Becall. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Review of Climate of Opinion

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 17, 2019January 17, 2019 Books, Literature

Click Here to Read: Review of Climate of Opinion: Sigmund Freud in Poetry edited by Irene Willis, Reviewed by Victor A. Altshul in Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 66(6): 1189-1192.

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