Click Here to Read: Treatments of homosexuality in Britain since the 1950s—an oral history: the experience of patients by Glenn Smith and Michael King on the bmj website,
Stephen Fry with Caitlin McQue of Nottingham and other Stonewall marchers at London’s WorldPride on 7 July 2012. Image: Tablet eraser. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Good morning, Everyone,
Happy Post-Labor Day!
I wish I could mandate that you must be vaccinated and masked to read this column, but since I can’t I can only hope that those of you who can will be if you plan to venture outside once again –and especially, inside.
In times like these, one of the best, most soul-healing things we can do is read poetry.
Our poet today is one I have wanted to introduce for some time. Here she is: 
Mihaela Moscaliuc
This lovely poet learned English in school in Romania, from a teacher who lent them books in English such as “Catch-22,” “Lord of the Flies” and “The Catcher in the Rye.”
Amazingly, he also had his students listen to records with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen and Leonard Cohen – just like so many American teenagers.
Mihaela came to the U.S. when she was twenty-four to pursue graduate studies and since then has published a number of successful poetry collections. Among them are Cemetery Ink (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015) and Father Dirt (Alice James Books, 2010). She was the translator of Liliana Ursu’s Clay and Star (Etruscan Press, 2014) and Carmelia Leonte’s The Hiss of the Viper (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2014) and is the editor of Insane Devotion: On the Writings of Gerald Stern (Trinity University Press, 2016). With her husband, the well-known poet Michael Waters, she co- Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: September 6, 2021
AGORAPHOBIA with Susan Finkelstein and Jamieson Webster Friday, October 29, 2021 12:30-2:30pm Online via Zoom
It was not for a long time that I learned to appreciate the importance of phantasies and unconscious thought about life in the womb. They contain an explanation of the remarkable dread that many people have of being buried alive; and they also afford the deepest unconscious basis for the belief in survival after death, which merely represents a projection into the future of this uncanny life before birth. Moreover, the act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.” -Freud (1900-1901, S.E. Vol.5, p. 400)
Following our last presentation on claustrophobia, we will now turn to its counterpart, agoraphobia, shifting the valence from the fear of being trapped inside with no way out, to the fear of going outside, and potentially losing not only one’s way, but also one’s mind. Agoraphobic fears point to the Continue reading AGORAPHOBIA with Susan Finkelstein and Jamieson Webster Online CFS
Click Here to Read and Listen To: Angry Outbursts and Erotic Insinuation: What Freud Was Really Like: The father of psychoanalysis insisted that his students maintain neutrality vis-a-vis their own patients, but he himself tended to be impulsive and often crossed the line with his analysands by Ofer Aderet on the Ha’aretz website on August 5, 2021.
CONFERENCE
Psychoanalysis and the Language of War essaim 46 A Franco-American Presentation via Zoom Saturday, September 25, 2021
10:00 am – 12:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (US and Canada) To register, click here.
The word “war” carries a powerful charge in several sorts of war and in several ways of making war: position war, economic war, atomic war, cold war, spreading war, war against the pandemic… Psychoanalysts and psychoanalysis are also traversed by this signifier. What are the individual consequences that wars have had for analysts in their practice? What reflections and writings associating psychoanalysis and war have issued from this?
essaim is a French psychoanalytic journal. This encounter is devoted to the presentation and the discussion of Issue 46. (For a summary of Issue 46 in English, click here). Continue reading Psychoanalysis and the Language of War: essaim46
