Fiction as Testimony: Reading W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz with Salvatore F. Guido at Après-Coup

By Tamar SchwartzSeptember 25, 2019September 25, 2019 EVENTS

Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents

READING GROUP: Fiction as Testimony: Reading W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz
Salvatore F. Guido
Austerlitz is a study of trauma, aging, and memory. It is a literary assemblage that, with poetic intensity, gives voice to silent transformations undergone by the eponymous Austerlitz, as remnants of a past catch up to him at midlife. What does the dawning urgency for Austerlitz to keep appointments with the past tell us about testimony in the aftermath of Continue reading Fiction as Testimony: Reading W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz with Salvatore F. Guido at Après-Coup

Freud thought philosophers were deluded. But was he one himself?

By Tamar SchwartzSeptember 23, 2019September 23, 2019 History, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Freud thought philosophers were deluded. But was he one himself? By David Rutledge for The Philosopher’s Zone on the ABCS News website on September 16, 2019.

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CUTV News Radio Welcomes Back Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler

By Tamar SchwartzSeptember 23, 2019September 23, 2019 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Listen to: Part 2: CUTV News Radio Welcomes Back Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler on the Blog Talk Radio website on September 20, 2019.

Sigmund Freud: May 6, 1856- September 23, 1939

By Tamar SchwartzSeptember 23, 2019September 24, 2019 History, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Notice of Sigmund Freud’s Death in the Yiddish Daily Forward on September 23, 1939.

Click Here to Read: Notices of Freud’s Death from the New York Times and the Bennington, VT Evening Bann.er

The New Anti-Semitism is the Old Anti-Semitism

By Tamar SchwartzSeptember 21, 2019September 21, 2019 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: The New Anti-Semitism is the Old Anti-Semitism By Rabbi Yonason Goldson on the Jewish Press website on 20 Elul 5779 – September 20, 2019.

“History Repeats Itself”. “This is the U.S. in the Hands of the Jews”. Anti-Semitic USA political cartoon in 1896. Portrays Uncle Sam being crucified like Jesus. Two figures labeled “Wall Street Pirates” with caricatured Jewish features poke him with a spear and raise a poisoned sponge to his lips. The tub of poison is labeled “Debt”, the poisoned sponge “Interest on Bonds”, and the spear “Single Gold Standard”. Below, figures labeled “Republicanism” (Caricature of James G. Blaine) and “Democracy” (Caricature of Grover Cleveland) pick Uncle Sam’s pockets.

Psyche as Inner Contradiction by Jon Mills

By Tamar SchwartzSeptember 20, 2019September 20, 2019 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read Psyche as Inner Contradiction by Jon Mills In the Journal Contemporary Thought and Theory Volume 2 | Issue 4: Emancipation after Hegel, p. 71-82.

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