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Cast of the “Laetoli footprints” — the earliest known human footprints in the world, on display in the Hall of Human Origins in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. These footprints are those of Australopithecus afarensis. Image: Tim Evanson. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
lick Here to Read: How a teenage photographer captured a vanishing world before the Holocaust: Richard Scheuer’s images of ordinary life in 1934 are both unsettling and prescient By Simi Horwitz on the Forward website on October 12, 2022.
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REMINISCENCES OF GERALD J. ARONSON, M.D. (1922-2022) By David James Fisher, Ph.D.
I was neither an analysand nor supervisee of Gerry Aronson. I was a student in his L.A.P.S.I.
Seminar on “Resistance” in the early 1980’s and a friend for the remainder of his life. I found Gerry to be consistently brilliant, with an encyclopedic knowledge spanning Einsteinian theoretical physics, to mathematics, to philosophies of religion, to literature ancient and modern; he possessed an acute, insider view of the history of psychoanalysis. Gerry was endowed with a unique sense of humor; It was a Jewish sense of humor, marked by improvisation, wise cracking and one-liners; he possessed tons of stories, ad-libbed rapidly, and hit hard with his jokes. For my taste, his humor was intelligent and irreverent, puncturing pretense and debunking established pieties. In speaking the unspeakable, there was some aggression and some malice in his jokiness. But mostly, he was hilarious. Let me provide a few examples.
L.A.P.S.I. invited Adolf Grunbaum to conduct an all-day program on his book, The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique (1984). Grunbaum was temporarily running out of steam by the late afternoon, catching his breathe, saying out loud “What am I thinking? what am I doing?” Gerry bellowed from the auditorium, “A lot of damage.” The audience cracked up, including Grunbaum. Continue reading REMINISCENCES OF GERALD J. ARONSON, M.D. (1922-2022) By David James Fisher, Ph.D.
