The Body and Psychosis at the Helix Center
By Categories: EVENTS, Psychoanalysis

The Body and Psychosis 11 February 2023 247 East 82nd Street New York, NY 10028
 A new movement within Cognitive Psychology, known as 4E Cognition, views thought and behavior as embodied, embedded, enactive & extended. Each of these four strands has a rich (and ongoing) philosophical history. Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, Bahktin, Vygotsky and others have drawn attention to the role of action and interaction in (in)forming our experience.  What do our bodies contribute to qualia, to the phenomenology that seems to mark consciousness for us? How does our embeddedness in a social world with others impact our sense of reality? And what role is played by our constant manipulation of things and interaction with others in anchoring us, not simply the way gravity keeps our feet on the ground, but as a woven fabric creates a world we can inhabit and experience together? Continue reading The Body and Psychosis at the Helix Center

Mahmoud Abbas’ Dissertation
By Categories: Politics

Click Here to Read: Mahmoud Abbas’ Dissertation: The Palestinian leader’s scholarly abstract sheds light on the crude deformations of Soviet Zionology and how they are reflected in today’s universities BY Izabella Tabarovsky on the Tablet website on January 18, 2023.

Mahmoud Abbas 23 September 2009 Image: Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Jews in the Spanish Civil War By Martin Sugarman (1936 – 1939)
By Categories: History, Politics

Click Here to Read: Jews in the Spanish Civil War By Martin Sugarman (1936 – 1939) on the Jewish Virtual Library website.

Memorial to Republican-supporting Jewish volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. The English inscription reads “Homage to the Jewish heros who, out of the 7000 Jewish volunteers from all countries, fighters of freedom, fell in Spain 1936–1939”. Image: LittleDwangs.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.\