Click Here to Read: The Oedipus Complex of a Nation in Flux by Patrick Burr MerrionWest website on September 14, 2020. Image: Fibonacci Blue. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Category: Psychoanalysis
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Sigmund Freud’s Voice
Driven to Preserve Self and Object: Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau’s Podcast
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In today’s episode Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau will present her talk titled “Driven to preserve self and object” where she eloquently investigates the structuring function of the object in tension with the subject and its drives; the role of the aggression as an intensified expression of a need; and her original term “Lethe”, describing the energy of these preservative drives.Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, (PHD) is a Training and Supervising Analyst of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and the Swiss Psychoanalytic Society. She has Continue reading Driven to Preserve Self and Object: Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau’s Podcast
Op-Ed on Donald Trump by Jan Van Schaik MD
Donald Trump’s Authoritarian Proclivities: A Personal Perspective
As an immigrant who came to the United States to escape the potential threat of Soviet authoritarianism, I have grave concerns that Donald Trump has authoritarian desires and, if given the chance, would move America in an authoritarian direction.
My viewpoint is deeply informed by my personal history. Nearly two decades ago I was struck by the following quote: “The most important event of my life occurred before I was born.” This quote from the son of a Holocaust survivor, was cited by Dora Apel, in her 2002 book, Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing. Although I’ve had my share of trauma, I resonated deeply with this quote ever since I first read it.
I was born in postwar Europe in 1953. My parents immigrated to the US with my sister and me in 1959, after they feared Soviet Continue reading Op-Ed on Donald Trump by Jan Van Schaik MD
The Lie of Viktor Frankl
Click Here to Read: The Lie of Viktor Frankl: The author of the strangely misleading ‘Man’s Search for Meaning,’ repackaged as a psychotropic New Age guru, in the newly translated ‘Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything’ BY David Mikics on the Tablet website on September 10, 2020.
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Volumes of Selected Papers on IPBooks.net
Coming soon from IPBooks.net:
Click Here to Read About: From Inner Speech to Dialogue: Psychoanalysis Linguistics and Development Collected papers of Theodore Shapiro
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Click Here to Read About: Psychoanalysis Through the Life Cycle: Selected Papers of Martin Silverman Volume 1
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Click Here to Read About: The Peripatetic Psychoanalyst: Selected Papers of Arnold Richards Volume 4
Click Here to Read About: The World of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalysts: The Selected Papers of Arnold D. Richards, Volume 5
Click Here to Read About: Paradigms and Processes by Arnold Wilson.
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Click Here to Read about and Purchase: Contemporary Conflict Theory: A Journey of a Psychoanalyst: Selected Papers of Sander M. Abend, Click Here to Read about and Purchase: Chimeras and Other Writings: Selected Papers of Sheldon Bach
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