How Red Vienna Revolutionized Sigmund Freud

By Tamar SchwartzMay 29, 2020May 29, 2020 History, Politics, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: How Red Vienna Revolutionized Sigmund Freud by Phillip Henry on the Jacobin website on on May 28, 2020.

MITPP Online Courses

By Tamar SchwartzMay 28, 2020May 28, 2020 EVENTS

Click Here for a list of Summer Institute Online Mini-Courses and Workshops. All offerings are approved for contact hours/CEUs.

Shavuot

By Tamar SchwartzMay 27, 2020May 27, 2020 Arts, History, Literature

Click Here to Read: Holiday Edition: Shavuot on the Tablet website on May 27, 2020.
Western Wall, Jerusalem, Shavuot. Image: Daniel Majewski. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Speech, Signifier, Letter with Alain Vanier Online with Après-Coup

By Tamar SchwartzMay 27, 2020May 27, 2020 Uncategorized

FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS Speech, Signifier, Letter Alain Vanier Saturday, May 30, 2020 10:00 am – 1:00 pm To register, click here.

We will study the difference between signifier and letter without overlooking the sign, a notion Lacan rethought at various points of his teaching. Particular attention will be paid to their relation to the act of speech and the subject of language. Continue reading Speech, Signifier, Letter with Alain Vanier Online with Après-Coup

The Philip Roth Archive

By Tamar SchwartzMay 26, 2020May 26, 2020 History, Literature

Click Here to Read: The Philip Roth Archive: A fan’s obsessive rummage through the letters and papers of the writer who died two years ago today reveals a playful, funny, brilliant man by Jesse Tisch on the Table website on May 22, 2020.

YIVO’s “Old Friend and Teacher”: Simon Dubnow and his Relationship to the Yiddish

By Tamar SchwartzMay 25, 2020May 25, 2020 Books, Literature

Click Here to Read: YIVO’s “Old Friend and Teacher”: Simon Dubnow and his Relationship to the Yiddish by Cecile E. Kuznitz from the Scientific Institute Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook XV 2016. Note: The file starts with the Yearbook front matter.

Spike Lee and the Battlefield of American History

By Tamar SchwartzMay 25, 2020May 25, 2020 Film, History, Politics

Click Here to Read: Spike Lee and the Battlefield of American History with his new film, the peerless American filmmaker — self-isolating and eflective in New York — unsettles past and present conflicts by By Reggie Ugwu in the New York Times on May 21, 2020.
Image: José Cruz/ABr. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.