On Bullying: A Psychoanalytic Reflection with Alba Flesler at Après-Coup

By Tamar SchwartzJune 16, 2018July 9, 2018 EVENTS, Psychoanalysis

Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents Psychoanalytic Association presents WORKSHOP ON CHILD ANALYSIS: On Bullying: A Psychoanalytic Reflection with Alba Flesler Saturday, June 23, 2018 10:30 am – 2:00 pm The School of Visual Arts 136 West 21st Street, New York, NY

What does the current phenomenon of bullying tell us about the symptoms and jouissances of wider forms of violence? Drawing on clinical material, we will question the causes of human violence in general and of bullying in particular, reflecting on why it occurs primarily in the school.

The Subject of Politics with Isidoro Vegh at Après-Coup

By Tamar SchwartzJune 16, 2018July 9, 2018 EVENTS, Psychoanalysis

Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS : The Subject of Politics Isidoro Vegh Friday, June 22, 2018 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm The School of Visual Arts 136 West 21st Street, New York, NY
Lacan stated that “the unconscious is the political” and that “the symptom establishes the order whereby our politics is revealed.” What is politics for psychoanalysts?
Suggested Readings: Lacan: Seminars XIV, The Logic of the Phantasm, 1966-67, May 10, 1967; XV, The Analytic Act, 1967-68, Feb. 7, 1968; XVII, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, 1969-70, Feb. 11, 1970; XVIII, For a Discourse Probably Not on Semblance, 1971, April 2, 1971.

Isidoro Vegh is a psychoanalyst practicing in Buenos Aires, a founding member of the Escuela Freudiana de Buenos Aires, an Après-Coup faculty Continue reading The Subject of Politics with Isidoro Vegh at Après-Coup

APsaA Work on Separation of Families at the US Border

By Tamar SchwartzJune 16, 2018July 9, 2018 Psychoanalysis 1 Comment

Apropos advocacy re child separation at the border – this is what APSaA has done:

These efforts included:

Contacting several members of congress who are currently working on legislation to end this policy: Senator Diane Feinstein, Senator Cory Booker, Senator Jeff Merkley to name a few. You can read our letter here.
Garnering media coverage such as this letter-to-the-editor by incoming president Lee Jaffe in the Los Angeles Times, this article published on Mic.com.
APsaA has also signed on to this petition started by Dana Sinopoli with PsiAN and encourage you to sign on as individuals as well.

The Changes and Challenges of Fatherhood

By Tamar SchwartzJune 14, 2018July 9, 2018 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: The Changes and Challenges of Fatherhood: Coping with the psychological and physiological shifts of fatherhood By Chuck Schaeffer, Ph.D. on the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Psychoanalysis Unplugged Blog on the Psychology Today blogs on June 14, 2018.

Benveniste’s Interwoven Lives: Fort Da and the Resolution of Splits in the History of Psychoanalysis

By Tamar SchwartzJune 13, 2018July 9, 2018 Books, Psychoanalysis 1 Comment

Click Here to Read: Benveniste’s Interwoven Lives: Fort Da and the Resolution of Splits in the History of Psychoanalysis by Michael Poff, MSW, Psychoanalyst.

Click Here to Read: Review of “The Interwoven Lives of Sigmund, Anna and W. Ernest Freud” Three Generations of Psychoanalysis” by Daniel Benenviste, Ph.D., Reviewed by Ron Spielman for this website.

Here is a excerpt from the review of The Interwoven Lives of Sigmund, Anna and W. Ernest Freud: Three Generations of Psychoanalysis by Daniel Benveniste, Reviewed by Anne J. Adelman in The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s current issue: Vol 65, Issue 2, 2017.

“This book evokes a remarkable feeling of nostalgia for a time and place we can imagine but not fully re-create. It is peopled with characters we recognize as flawed but admire nonetheless, especially as Benveniste deepens our understanding of the enormous strains they withstood…. With [Benveniste’s] enormous breadth of knowledge, thorough scholarship, crystal-clear and engaging writing, and benevolent attitude toward his subject, he encircles the reader in the warm embrace of his thoughtful and dynamically rich perspective on a life viewed through the prismatic lens of personal, familial, social, psychological, and political history.”

Click Here to Read: Review of Daniel Benveniste’s The Interwoven Lives of Sigmund, Anna and W. Ernest Freud by Stephen Frosh in the Times Literary Supplement (reprinted in the Wall Street Journal) on June 12, 2015.

Click Here to Purchase: The Interwoven Lives of Sigmund, Anna and W. Ernest Freud by Daniel Benveniste on IPBooks.net

The Principles of Caricature by E.H. Gombrich and Ernst Kris

By Tamar SchwartzJune 12, 2018July 9, 2018 Psychoanalysis

Enrst Gombrich. Photo: Nationaal Archief, archiefinventaris 2.24.01.05, inventarisnummer 928-1609.

Click Here to Read: E. H. Gombrich, (with Ernst Kris) The Principles of Caricature, British Journal of Medical Psychology, Vol. 17, 1938, pp.319-42 [Trapp no.1938A.1].