Gay, Communist, Yiddish Utopia

Click Here to Read: Gay, Communist, Yiddish Utopia: Artist Yevgeniy Fiks believes in a future of Yiddish-speaking space colonies By Vladislav Davidzon on the Tablet website on December 4, 2018.

Installation shot at the Cooper Union gallery of Yevgeniy Fiks’ conceptual, collaborative art project, Monument to Cold War Victory, which took the form of an open-call, international competition for a public Cold War victory monument. Image: Yevgeniy Fiks. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

A Cool Kid Communist Comeback

Click Here to Read: A Cool Kid Communist Comeback: Tablet is publishing works analyzing the state of the American left as part of an ongoing feature inspired by Paul Berman’s series of essays on the subject. The latest examines what’s behind the current revival of Communist-inspired politics, and where it’s leading. By Cathy Young on the Tablet website on December 4, 2018.

Bodily Experiences and the Developing Capacity for Representation with Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, M.D., Ph.D. at NYPSI

NYPSI CHILD ADVANCED SEMINAR: Bodily Experiences and the Developing Capacity for Representation
with Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, M.D., Ph.D.

Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, M.D., Ph.D. Thursday, December 6, 2018, 8 – 10 pm New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute 247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves) No charge. Register HERE, visit nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900 All are welcome. Child candidates are expected to attend.

This presentation discusses the treatment of a disturbed baby encapsulated in an autistic relationship with a severely depressed mother. This mother-baby dyad was unable to develop a communicative relationship with potentially catastrophic effects for the baby’s future mental health. Continue reading Bodily Experiences and the Developing Capacity for Representation with Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, M.D., Ph.D. at NYPSI

FREUD’S CASE STUDIES, Reading Group MARK STAFFORD and MARTIN WINN at Après-Coup

Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association Tuesday, December 11, 2018 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
FREUD’S CASE STUDIES, Reading Group MARK STAFFORD and MARTIN WINN
This reading group will read closely and clinically Freud’s case studies. We will compare and contrast them with Freud’s biographical studies. How Lacan discusses these cases in his seminars will also influence the way these studies are read.
LOCATION: Rm 602C at 133 West 21st Street (between Sixth and Seventh Avenues), New York City.

Please note that this is a different location from where Après-Coup meetings are usually held. 133 is directly across the street on the North side of W. 21st Street. Continue reading FREUD’S CASE STUDIES, Reading Group MARK STAFFORD and MARTIN WINN at Après-Coup

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