John Podhoretz’s Movie Reviews

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 22, 2019March 22, 2019 Film

Click Here to Read: John Podhoretz’s Movie Reviews on the The Weekly Standard website.

Winston’s Brush with History

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 22, 2019March 22, 2019 Arts, Books, History, Politics

Click here to Read: Winston’s Brush with History: by Dominic Green
A review of Churchill: The Statesman as Artist, by David Cannadine on the New Criterion website in April 2019.

Understanding Donald Trump’s Twitter rants takes Freudian psychology

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 22, 2019March 22, 2019 Books, Politics

Click Here to Read: Understanding Donald Trump’s Twitter rants takes Freudian psychology by Austin Ratner on the USA Today website on March 22, 2019.

Click Here to Read About and Purchase: The Psychoanalyst’s Aversion to Proof by Austin Ratner from IPBooks.

Eyes Wide Shut: A Psychoanalytic Investigation with Mary Wild at NYPSI

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 21, 2019March 21, 2019 EVENTS

A.A. BRILL LIBRARY EVENT: Eyes Wide Shut: A Psychoanalytic Investigation
with Mary Wild Wednesday, April 17, 2019 | 7:00 – 9:00 pm New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute The Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium 247 East 82nd Street | New York City

General Admission: $10 All proceeds support the A.A. Brill Library.
Register HERE, visit nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900

Eyes Wide Shut is an erotic drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick – released in 1999, it is the final feature he completed before dying that same year at the age of 70. Based on Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 novella Traumnovelle (Dream Story), it depicts the ambivalent role of extra-marital fantasies revealed by a woman to her husband in a seemingly happy relationship. One would be forgiven to suspect that, over the course of his career, Kubrick was working his way to an investigation of female desire by first tackling less daunting subjects in earlier works (e.g., war, outer space, ultraviolence and horror)!

Starring the then-still-married actors Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise, Eyes Continue reading Eyes Wide Shut: A Psychoanalytic Investigation with Mary Wild at NYPSI

Psychiatry’s Incurable Hubris

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 21, 2019March 21, 2019 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Psychiatry’s Incurable Hubris: The biology of mental illness is still a mystery, but practitioners don’t want to admit it by Gary Greenberg in the Atlantic Monthly in the April 2019 Issue.

Dorsal and lateral views of the connectivity backbone of human brain. Authors: Hagmann P, Cammoun L, Gigandet X, Meuli R, Honey CJ, Wedeen VJ, Sporns O

The Evidence That Could Impeach Donald Trump

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 21, 2019March 21, 2019 Politics

Click Here to Read: The Evidence That Could Impeach Donald Trump by Garrett M. Graff on the Wired website on March 19, 2019.

President Donald Trump poses for his official portrait at The White House, in Washington, D.C., on Friday, October 6, 2017. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead). Public Domain via WIkimediaCommons

The Magdeburg Sphere

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 20, 2019March 20, 2019 History, Literature

Click Here to Read: The Magdeburg Sphere by Marcel Cohen. Remarks given at the Medem Library of the Maison de la Culture Yiddish in Paris on 16 June 2011 as part of a series of talks on “Writing the Catastrophe: Witnessing and Fiction.” Translated by Steven Jaron on the Fortnightly Review website.