IPA Book Launch of Freud’s Moses/Eran Rolnik April 29 2023 It is always a pleasure to celebrate a new book. One is even happier to participate in such party when all that was required of one was to submit a chapter and trust in the editorial skills and good
Romance, anti-Semitism, homosexuality, friendship – the vast trove of Sigmund Freud’s letters sheds light not only on the subjects that occupied the father of psychoanalysis, but also on the role the very act of writing them played in his life Read on Haaretz Website>> Part 1 Haaretz June 28 2019>>
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
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
published in Paradigma der Moderne Read paper in German>>
Everyone says that “the truth hurts,” but only the liar does something about it. Pathological or compulsive lying is an interesting human behavior, and can up to a point be quite spellbinding. In psychiatry it is customary to distinguish between lying that serves a clear “external” benefit, and “pathological,” habitual
Great letter-writer that he was, the father of psychoanalysis corresponded with a number of colleagues in pre-state Israel. To one of them, Dr. Yochanan Lewinson, Freud wrote about his preoccupation with the supernatural and telepathy. His letter to Lewinson is published here, for the first time read full paper>>
Between Ideology and Identity: Psychoanalysis in Jewish Palestine 1918-1948 The reception of psychoanalysis outside the German Cultural Sphere is an important chapter in the historiography of psychoanalysis as well as in the social and intellectual history of many societies. This paper attempts to historicize the reception of the Freudian paradigm
Paper read in a conference on Antisemitism that was subsequently published in Czech>>