Click Here to Read: Pedro Almodóvar’s lockdown diary, part 1: the long journey to the night by Pedro Almodóvar on the Sag Harbor Cinema website.
Click Here to Purchase: Pedro Almodóvar: A Cinema of Desire, Passion and Compulsion edited by Arlene Kramer Richards, Lucille Spira with Merle Molofsky on IPBooks.net
ANALYSIS:The Child, Language, and the Psychoanalyst by Catherine Vanier at Après-Coup
Sylvia B., age 5, 2020
WORKSHOP ON CHILD ANALYSIS:The Child, Language, and the Psychoanalyst by Catherine Vanier Saturday, May 9, 2020 10:30 am – 2:00 pm
If play, as Winnicott says, is “therapeutic in itself,” what use is an analyst’s presence? Why not simply tell parents having trouble with their children to let them play or draw? In children’s analysis, the child’s and the analyst’s words have a specific role within the transference and address children’s Continue reading ANALYSIS:The Child, Language, and the Psychoanalyst by Catherine Vanier at Après-Coup
‘Orientalism,’ Then and Now
Click Here to Read: The Storied History of Yiddish Publishing: The Influential Publishers and Formidable Editors Who Brought Yiddish Books to the World by Zachary M. Baker PublishedWinter 2016 / 5777 Part of issue number 74 of the Pakn Treger Magazine of the Yiddish Book Center.
First and last pages of ABC book in Yiddish for Jewish primary schools in Poland. Warsaw, 1958. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Photography Friday: Dr Arnie Richards
Do civilisations collapse?
Click Here to Read: Do civilisations collapse? The idea that the Maya or Easter Islanders experienced an apocalyptic end makes for good television but bad archaeology by Guy D Middleton on the Aeon website.
Ahu Tongariki, the largest platform and collection of Moai ever erected on Rapa Nui (Eastern Island). Image: Bradenfox. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
COVID-19, Haredi Jewry, and ‘Magical’ Thinking
Click Here to Read: COVID-19, Haredi Jewry, and ‘Magical’ Thinking: During quarantine, we judge the ultra-Orthodox for practicing what other Jews preach by Shaul Magid on the Tablet website on April 30, 2020.
Haredi or Charedi/Chareidi Judaism is the most conservative form of Orthodox Judaism, often referred to as ultra-Orthodox. A follower of Haredi Judaism is called a Haredi (Haredim in the plural). Image: Alex Proimos from Sydney, Australia. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.