It’s possible that the task of liberating humanity from the burden of the superego has succeeded over and above all expectations. Pathologies of a new type – individual, cultural and political psychologies – have become the attributes of a period in which a “good life” and guilt are perceived as
It’s possible that the task of liberating humanity from the burden of the superego has succeeded over and above all expectations. Pathologies of a new type – individual, cultural and political psychologies – have become the attributes of a period in which a “good life” and guilt are perceived as
The story of the “secret committee” is known to those familiar with the history of the psychoanalytic movement. In contrast, the story of the generous and demanding gifts that Freud gave his associates continues to be marked by collective repression to this day. Almost every analyst whom I told about
Over the course of his lifetime, Freud made gifts of more than twenty rings set with ancient gems bearing images from Greek and Roman mythology. He himself wore, at different points in his life, more than one of the rings from the collection. The rings on display in the exhibition
Mimetic desire. The greater the number of people who report that they are taking antidepressants, the greater the number of people who feel that what’s keeping them from living a better life is an antidepressant. To make people desire Cipralex, it’s not enough to boast of sales data, persuade people
There is a link between the sense of absence that drives Green’s engagement in the familiar and the domestic, and the function played by family in all of his films. The family in Green’s work is at one and the same time whole and deficient, familiar and alien, and it
In 1931, the League of Nations’ Committee on Literature and the Arts asked the Paris-based International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation to organize a public exchange of correspondence between intellectuals that would promote the common interests of the League and of intellectual life. It would not be extreme to surmise that
Entre los politólogos hay una tendencia a clasificar el suicidio―asesinato junto con otras formas convencionales de terror que, en mi opinión, reducen el análisis a su valor estratégico o pragmático. Esta puede ser una reacción razonable a las embarazosas “autopsias psíquicas” que realizan los psicólogos militares, en particular después del
The media presence of the psychiatrist to the famous has long since become a horror show of authoritarianism, emotional confusion, superficiality and kitsch. Something disturbing is happening in the flourishing clinic of this Israeli Dr. Caligari. Failure to preserve a patient’s medical confidentiality can constitute a warning light of the
The paper offers some thoughts on reading and teaching Freud, on translating Freud, on translation in general, and on a possible kinship between translation and the psychoanalytic process. My reading of Freud’s works, and the years I spent translating them into Hebrew and editing Hebrew editions of his writings, have