An Introduction to Psychosomatics: Christine Anzieu, M.D. and Francis Baudry, M.D. at NYPSI

An Introduction to Psychosomatics: Christine Anzieu, M.D. and Francis Baudry, M.D. October 24, 2019 – February 6, 2020 (10/24, 11/14, 12/12/2019; 1/16, 2/6/2020) Thursdays, 8:00 – 9:30 pm 5 classes  /  $185 Location: NYPSI (247 East 82nd Street, NYC) To register, click here, visit nypsi.org or call 212-879-6900 NYPSI Extension Course: An Introduction to Psychosomatics
This course will explore the dynamic between psyche and soma, using the theoretical frame of the Paris Psychosomatic School. We will read and
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Fiction as Testimony: Reading W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz with Salvatore F. Guido at Après-Coup

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
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The New Anti-Semitism is the Old Anti-Semitism

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.