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
Jonah
When Denial Turns Deadly
Click Here to Read: When Denial Turns Deadly: A Psychoanalytic Perspective: When the inability to face facts has fatal consequences. by Austin Ratner on the American Psychoanalytic Association blog on the Psychology Today blogs on August 24, 2021,
Click Here to Read about and Purchase :The Psychoanalyst’s Aversion to Proof by Austin Ratner from IPBooks.net.
Remains of Nazi Massacre Victims Discovered in Poland’s ‘Death Valley’
Click Here to Read: Remains of Nazi Massacre Victims Discovered in Poland’s ‘Death Valley’: In January 1945, German forces murdered around 500 Polish resistance fighters in a forest near the village of Chojnice By Isis Davis-Marks in the SMITHSONIANMAG.COM website on August 24, 2021.
Chohnice. Image: Szater at Polish Wikipedia. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Cities of Ice: A dispatch from frozen Harbin, where Jews once flourished—and melted away
Click Here to Read: Cities of Ice: A dispatch from frozen Harbin, where Jews once flourished—and melted away on by Dara Horn on the Tablet website on April 19, 2019.
Max and Fannie Shifrin with Chinese servant, Harbin, China. Image: Vern C. Gorst, UW Digital Collections. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Marxism and Psychoanalysis – Notes on Wilhelm Reich’s Life and Works
The Pursuit of Truth: What is a scientific paradigm?
THE PURSUIT OF TRUTH: What is a scientific paradigm? Richard Koenigsberg
Victor Gijsbers
Victor Gijsbers provides the best explication and discussion of the concept of a scientific paradigm that I’ve seen, heard, read–anywhere. Required listening (only 10 minutes long).
Click Here to View: first video is called, “Thomas Kuhn, Normal Science.”
Paradigm: all the theories, concepts, methods and measuring instruments that a scientific discipline takes for granted and that directs research in that discipline. Continue reading The Pursuit of Truth: What is a scientific paradigm?