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Category: Psychoanalysis
Critique of psychoanalytical institutes by Jon Mills
How can universal theories of human nature be based in white racism, or even more ridiculously, white supremacism? Given that Freud declared that all human beings by nature are prejudiced, including being racists regardless of one’s skin color—yes, non-whites are racist too—that is, no one gets a free pass on being racist on some level, he probably would not be surprised that whitey becomes the emotional whipping post in contemporary culture as an act of displacement.
In Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, Freud underscores the universality of racism:
“Every time two families become connected by marriage, each of them thinks itself superior to or of better birth than the other. Of two neighbouring towns each is the other’s most jealous rival; every little canton looks down upon the others with contempt. Closely related races keep one another at arm’s length; the South German cannot endure the North German, the Englishman casts every kind of aspersion upon the Scot, the Spaniard despises the Portuguese. We are no longer astonished that greater differences should lead to an almost insuperable repugnance, such as the gallic people for the German, the Aryan for the Semite, and the white races for the coloured” (p. 101). Continue reading Critique of psychoanalytical institutes by Jon Mills
The Good Poetic Mother by Irene Hoge Smith from IPBooks
Milton, Freud, and My Cousin Hymie
Click Here to Read: Milton, Freud, and My Cousin Hymie: I found in Paradise Lost an unexpected affinity among its author, the psychoanalyst, and myself. What the anti-Semite Ezra Pound called the poet’s “beastly hebraism” held the key. by Joe Moshenska on the New York Review of Books website on November 9, 2021.
The Evolution and Development of Psychoanalysis: An Interview with Leo Rangell
Review of Surrogate by Karen L. Fund
Click Here to Read: Review of Karen L. Fund’s, Surrogate: How A Woman Named Sandra Made Me A Mother (International Psychoanalytic Books, 2020) By Ofra Eshel, Psy.D. First published in SIHOT–DIALOGUE, Israel Journal of Psychotherapy, August, 2021. Translated by Dahlia Nissan Russ, Psy.D.
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Did Covid Change How We Dream?
Click Here to Read: Did Covid Change How We Dream? All around the world, the pandemic provoked strange nocturnal visions. Can they help shed light on the age-old question of why we dream at all? By Brooke Jarvis in The New York Times on November 3, 2021.
The Nightmare’, by M.Z.D. Schmid Image: This file comes from Wellcome Images, a website operated by Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation based in the United Kingdom. Refer to Wellcome blog post (archive).