Click Here to Read: What declassified Cold-War spy photos tell us about ancient Rome: The images challenge ideas about the Empire’s eastern frontier, based off earlier data collected from a biplane bu Tom Metcalfe in National Geoghaphic on October 25, 2023.
Qasr Bshir in Jordan. Image:Schreckgespenst Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
David Giannini
Good morning, everyone! As we did last month, we’re sharing some readers’ favorites for those who may have missed them the first time. David Giannini last appeared here in 2022. Since then, his latest book, Already Long Ago (Dos Madres, 2023) is already garnering high praise.
–Irene Willis
Poetry Editor
A Woman in the Asylum on the River
Even in my mother’s womb
I sensed that
I could not escape without help; that there Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Click Here to Read: Nobel Prize in physics won by trio who created rapid flashes of light to ‘capture the shortest of moments’ By Christian Edwards, Katie Hunt and Ed Upright on the CNN website on October 3, 2023.
Noble Prize. Image: Sculptor and engraver: Erik Lindberg (1902), Photographer: Jonathunder (2008-11-01). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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Here’s another Dylan song, not as well known as “Blowin in The Wind” but as relevant today as it was in 1964. It’s worth a read if not a listen for all of us..
Shelly
With God on Our Side
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y2FuDY6Q4M
WRITTEN BY: BOB DYLAN
Oh my name it is nothin’
My age it means less
The country I come from
Is called the Midwest
I’s taught and brought up there
The laws to abide
And that the land that I live in
Has God on its side Continue reading With God on Our Side by Bob Dylan
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Freud and the Ludic Mind: New Ideas in Psychoanalysis
What would happen to psychoanalytic theory if, instead of adopting the death drive──drive toward death and destruction──Freud had chosen to conceptualize the ludic drive, merely mentioned by him in his studies?
Freud and the ludic mind: new ideas in psychoanalysis were initially written for readers with a psychoanalytic background, but other readers may also take advantage of it. The psychoanalyst will see what happens when the author introduces the hypothesis of a ludic drive into the classical Freudian model──an impulse for living an active life, a life in which one is all the time doing, feeling, talking, listening, or imagining something. He hypothesizes that the ludic drive results from an innate intolerance for inactivity. The result is a new theory of the mind that, in a peaceful and nonexclusive way, incorporates many recent developments of psychoanalysis into the classical Freudian construction. It opens a wide range of new possibilities for clinical activity.
This book provides a broad and profound reflection on possible paths of psychoanalysis, with a theoretical framework built on contributions by Freud, Hartmann, Alexander, Hendrick, Mahler, Winnicott, Kohut, Melanie Klein, Bowlby, and others. It merges the core ideas of major psychoanalysis schools Continue reading Freud and the Ludic Mind: New Ideas in Psychoanalysis From IPBooks
Click Here to Read: Archaeologists Found an Entirely New Language Among the Ruins of an Ancient Empire: Look for it soon on Duolingo.
BY Darren Orf on the Popular Mechanics website on September 26, 2023.
YAZILIKAYA, Hattusha, Boğazköy, Çorum, Turkey Image: Murat Özsoy 1958 Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
