Category: Literature

Poetry Monday: February 6, 2023
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Dear Poetry Monday Readers:
Irene Willis asked me to go into our archives and repost this previous Poetry Monday with the poetry of Jeff Friedman for your reading pleasure.
Thank you,
Tamar Schwartz
InternationalPsychoanalysis.net

February 7, 2022

Good morning everyone,
I hope you’ve all had a successful Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas and  New Year holidays and that this morning finds you all fully vaccinated and some even with the third shot.
Our poet today is Jeff Friedman, whose work was last featured here in 2008. I’ve always enjoyed his work fully, especially its humor and warmth, but with his new book The Marksman (Carnegie Mellon University Press) he seems to have reached a greater depth.
It’s our pleasure to share three of his poems here. All are from the new book, although they were previously published in journals and magazines.
;            –Irene Willis
POETRY EDITOR

Marksman

I shot the points off a star
dangling in a window
and I shot the lies
off the tongue of a liar,
who then spoke sweetly
about the pleasures of the truth. Continue reading Poetry Monday: February 6, 2023

People Don’t Drown in Living Rooms by Orna Reuven and Yair Eldan
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Above are two clusters of chapters from a unique psychological novel, “people don’t drown in living rooms”. Written in two voices, in the form of epistolary exchanges between analyst and patient, this book is unique in its form as well as in its contextual content. Touching on the complexity of emotional and physical boundaries between therapist and client, through the tumultuous arena of erotic transference – as Danielle Knafo, professor, psychoanalyst and author, commented “This book teaches us more about the intensity of the love-hate dynamics that exist between patient and analyst than any journal article on the subject”.

This book was written by two authors; Dr. Orna Reuven, a psychoanalyst and lecturer from the Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and Dr. Yair Eldan, a lecturer of law from The Hebrew University, who together embarked on an adventure knowing how it would begin but with no view of where it would end. During the writing of this book, they took it upon themselves to restrict their Continue reading People Don’t Drown in Living Rooms by Orna Reuven and Yair Eldan