Click Here to Read: Zionism and Bolshevism: In 1917, two answers to Russia’s ‘Jewish Question’ swept west and helped transform the world By Chimen Abramsky on the Tablet website on December 17, 2020.
Illustrated Sunday Herald article by Winston S. Churchill. Image: old Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: A Hanukkah Tale From Old Russia: A mysterious czarist soldier tries to persuade his community he’s Jewish by Curt Leviant on the Tablet website on December 16, 2020. Hanukkah menorah, Russia, 1890, brass, National Museum of American Jewish History. Imagea: Wmpearl Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read About and Purchase: Memory’s Eyes A New York Oedipus Novel
By Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau on IPBooks.net
American Board of Psychoanalysis Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhD, FABP
MEMORY’S EYES is a contemporary New York Oedipus novel. It is written for readers who enjoy playing with concepts and storylines, here namely the classical Oedipus myth, Sophocles’ three Theban plays, the psychoanalytical concept of the Oedipus complex, and its pop-cultural adaptations in cartoons and jokes. Consequently, this novel is meant to be tragic and funny, playful, but also uncomfortable. Ann, a modern Antigone, candidate in training at a psychoanalytic institute, relives and rethinks the complex story of her wide-ranging family clan. The Prologue reminds the readers of the myth’s characters and destinies, and yet they will find themselves simultaneously knowing and not knowing, anticipating and being surprised by the truth’s revelations.
“In Memory’s Eyes Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau renews the emotional richness of psychoanalysis and ancient myth. Even Continue reading Memory’s Eyes by Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau
Click Here to Read: The Event That Sparked the Movement to Free Soviet Jewry: Fifty years ago, the Leningrad Trial spurred the American Jewish community to action by Glenn Richter and Avi Weiss on the Tablet website on December 15, 2020. Jewish Emgiration from the USSR, before and after the First Leningrad Trial.. Image: Azk0702 Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
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PSYCHOANALYTIC BROOKLYN: EVERYDAY SADOMASOCHISM: A CONCEPT BRIDGING PSYCHOANALYSIS AND SOCIOLOGY
with Lynn Chancer, PhD and Christian Churchill, PhD, LP Friday, January 22, 2021 1:30-3:00pm Online via Zoom
As psychoanalytic clinicians, we are familiar with sadomasochistic dynamics in the treatment room. How can we benefit from thinking more about the cultural dimensions of these dynamics?
In her book Sadomasochism in Everyday Life, Lynn Chancer advances the provocative thesis that sadomasochism is far more prevalent in contemporary societies like the United States than we realize. Sexual sadomasochism, she argues, is only the best-known manifestation of what is actually a much more broadly based social phenomenon. She suggests that the structure of societies organized along patriarchal and capitalistic lines reflects and perpetuates a sadomasochistic social psychology, creating a culture steeped in everyday experiences of dominance and subordination. She places Continue reading Everyday Sadomasochim with Lynn Changer and Christian Churchill online with CFS Brooklyn
