Sexuation and Loss of Being in the Act of Speech with Paula Hochman online with Après-Coup
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FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS  Sexuation and Loss of Being in the Act of Speech  Paula Hochman  Friday, March 26, 2021 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
What consequences does entering into speech have for speaking beings? Two major ones: first, sexuation of the speaking body, and second, the loss of being known as “alienation.”  We will explore these implications and their clinical impact.
Suggested readings: Freud: “Some Character-Types Met with in Psycho-Analytic Work” (1916). Lacan: Seminars, VII, 1959-60, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, May 25, 1960; XI, 1964, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, May 27; XXIII, 1975-76, Le sinthome, 16 décembre 1975. Continue reading Sexuation and Loss of Being in the Act of Speech with Paula Hochman online with Après-Coup

Hitler kept secret hit list of 3,000 prominent Brits for after Nazis defeated UK
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Click Here to Read: Hitler kept secret hit list of 3,000 prominent Brits for after Nazis defeated UK: Author Sybil Oldfield reveals the Gestapo’s infamous ‘Black Book’ and the plan to Nazify Britain by rounding up the Jews – and non-Jews – who stood in the Third Reich’s way By Robert Philpot on the Times of Israel website on  March 12, 2021.

Panacea or Posion: Placebos and Nocebos in Modern Medicine at the Helix Center
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Panacea or Posion: Placebos and Nocebos in Modern Medicine Saturday 2:30 PM EST 20 March 2021

Placebos “work” for quite a few medical problems. But how? And what is the work they do?

What one thinks a medicine is capable of, one’s idea of that medicine, may affect us in the way “proper” medicines do. This implies that, in observing the work of a placebo we are watching an idea affect biology, the mind moving the body.

Despite the dualist notions this description elicits, where mind and body are held as separate entities, most neuroscientists, generally of a monistic bent, welcome the challenge of the placebo effect. Most insist that placebos precisely demonstrate that the mind is one with the body. Yet, Continue reading Panacea or Posion: Placebos and Nocebos in Modern Medicine at the Helix Center