The lie of the banality of evil: Hannah Arendt’s fatal flaw by Henry Zvi Lothane, M.D.

By Tamar SchwartzMay 24, 2022May 24, 2022 Politics, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: The lie of the banality of evil: Hannah Arendt’s fatal flaw by Henry Zvi Lothane, M.D. Published in: Naso, R.C. & Mills, J. (eds.) (2016). Ethics of evil/ Psychoanalytic Investigations. London: Karnac, Chapter 7, pp. 233-264.
Click Here to Read: How To Think About Evil: A Response To Richard J. Bernstein Ph.D. On Arendt’s Banality Of Evil by Henry Zvi Lothane, M.D. Published in Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology, 36:1-20, 2014.|
Photograph of Hannah Arendt in 1933. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Psychoanalysis, Nazism and ‘Jewish Science’ by Stephen Frosch

By Tamar SchwartzMay 12, 2022May 12, 2022 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: Psychoanalysis, Nazism and ‘Jewish Science’ by Stephen Frosch.
Citation: Frosh, S. ‘Psychoanalysis, Nazism and “Jewish Science”’ International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 84, 1315-1332 (2003). © Institute of Psychoanalysis, London, UK. Reproduced with permission.

‘We Are Tired of Killing’

By Tamar SchwartzMay 6, 2022May 6, 2022 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: ‘We Are Tired of Killing’: How Long Can Ukraine Trade Land for Blood? A journey to the front lines with an elite unit of Ukrainian marines willing to sacrifice everything By Mac William Bishop. on the Rolling Stone website.
Image of an Ukrainian National Guardsman, taken in 2022 during the Russian-Ukrainian War. Image: National Guard of Ukraine Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The Narcissism of Small Differences in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

By Tamar SchwartzMay 5, 2022May 5, 2022 Politics, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: The Narcissism of Small Differences in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict by Natylie Baldwin on the Anit-War.com wensote pm May 05, 2022.
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine – military offensive starting on 24 February 2022, part of the Russo-Ukrainian War Image: Homoatrox Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

As China looks on at a world opening up, can Xi Jinping survive zero-Covid?

By Tamar SchwartzMay 1, 2022May 1, 2022 Politics

Click Here to Read: As China looks on at a world opening up, can Xi Jinping survive zero-Covid? With 340m people living under lockdown or restrictions, the administration are sticking to their stance. But at what cost? Shanghai’s month under lockdown – in pictures by Helen Davidson in Taipei on the Guardian website on April 28, 2022.
Shanghai Disneyland after lockdown in Pudong area for COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai in March 2022. Image: 中国新闻网 Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Organs of the State

By Tamar SchwartzApril 29, 2022April 29, 2022 Politics, Science

Click Here to Read: Organs of the State: The People’s Republic of China is guilty of large-scale, Nazi-like medical experimentation on political prisoners
by Martin Elliot on the Tablet Website on April 27, 2022.
Uyghurman sunday market Kashgar Image: Toddenhoff. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Homage to Borodyanka

By Tamar SchwartzApril 28, 2022April 28, 2022 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: Bearing witness to the horror and majesty of a ruined, resilient Ukraine by Bernard-Henri Lévy
on the Tablet website on April 21, 2022.
Vitali Klitschko at the US Embassy in Kyiv for the US independence day celebrations Image: Embassy of the United States Kyiv, Ukraine Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.