Click Here to Read: Guest Post: Happy Birthday Lore Segal! Ellen Handler Spitz Celebrates the Return of “Tell Me a Mitzi” by Elizabeth Bird on the School Library Journal website on March 9, 2018.
Historian Tuesday: Thucydides
Click Here to Read: Thucydides on Wikipedia.
Click Here to Read: History: The Trump team is obsessing over Thucydides, the ancient historian who wrote a seminal tract on war By Michael Crowley on the Politico website on June 21, 2017/
Click Here to Read: The Thucydides Trap: Are the U.S. and China Headed for War? In 12 of 16 past cases in which a rising power has confronted a ruling power, the result has been bloodshed by Graham Allison on September 24, 2015.
Click Here to Read: The Risks and Rewards of Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War by S.M. Jaffe on the War on the Rocks website on July 6, 2017
Click Here to Read: Thucydides and the Tragedy of Athens: A Parable for America by John H. Maurer on the Foreign Policy Research website on June 26, 2017.
This is the plaster cast bust currently in exposition of Zurab Tsereteli’s gallery in Moscow (part of Russian Academy of Arts), formerly from the collection of castings of Pushkin museum made in early 1900-1910s.
Original bust is a Roman copy (c. 100 CE) of an early 4th Century BCE Greek original, and is located in Holkham Hall in Norfolk, UK. 2008 Photo: shakko
Obits & Omits: Meet Some of the Women Overlooked by The New York Times Obituaries Section, Until Now
The Ways We Fail Those With Mental Illness
Movies Monday: The Death of Stalin
Click Here to Read: Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin: A fatally ill-conceived “black comedy” By David Walsh on the World Socialist Web Site on March 9, 2018.
Click Here to Read: The Slapstick Horror of ‘The Death of Stalin’: By Manhola DargAis in The New York Times on March 8, 2018.
Click Here to Read: The Death of Stalin Movie Review by Glenn Kenny on the Roger Ebert website on March 9, 2018.
Click Here to Read: ‘The Death of Stalin’ Review: Political Satire on Dictators, Corruption Draws Blood: Armando Iannucci’s hilarious, profane comedy about Continue reading Movies Monday: The Death of Stalin
Let them eat bread
The Elusive Good Object with Lynne Zeavin at NYPSI
NYPSI’s 1028th Scientific Program Meeting: The Elusive Good Object with presenter Lynne Zeavin, Psy.D. and discussant Richard Zimmer, M.D.
The Elusive Good Object Presenter: Lynne Zeavin, Psy.D. Discussant: Richard Zimmer, M.D.
Tuesday, April 10, 2018 at 8 pm New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute 247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves)
There are two distinct ways in which Melanie Klein writes about idealization. Insofar as she maintains that “The whole of [the infant’s] instinctual desires and his unconscious phantasies imbue the breast with qualities going far beyond the actual nourishment it affords,” and her increasingly stressed conviction that the libidinally invested breast, when introjected, forms ‘the core of the ego’, Klein is suggesting that the original good object must be experienced as ideal. Nothing less than this would adequately address ‘the whole of [the infant’s] instinctual desires.’ In this view, the infant projects his entire loving capacity, as well as his capacity for pleasure, onto the object and this is then introjected, together with the object’s actual goodness, to become his very core. Continue reading The Elusive Good Object with Lynne Zeavin at NYPSI