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
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
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
Those who see Netanyahu as Machiavellian, guided solely by political interests, miss his deep need to sidestep the truth even when the truth is unlikely to hurt him and a lie offers no political advantage. A year after claiming that the mufti of Jerusalem gave Hitler the idea of annihilating
The social protest in Israel that began in the summer of 2011 has had its achievements. But until now it has been more of a political lightning rod and social shock-absorber than a challenge to the existing political order, whose single purpose is to prevent the Israelis from truly mourning
Una reciente declaración de los científicos cognitivos sobre memorias recuperadas lanza dudas engañosas sobre uno de los apuntalamientos de la psicología Freudiana, mientras socava la lucha contra violencia sexual cometida contra niños. Por Eran Rolnik / Haaretz Nov. 1, 2014>> PDF>>
It’s time to eliminate the tacit agreement that says political assets are under the control of the right, while the left controls assets of culture and the mind. read full article on Haaretz>> get PDF>>
When Karl Lueger, Vienna’s anti-Semitic mayor (1897-1910), was asked how his extreme anti-Jewish views squared with the fact that some of his friends were Jews, he replied, “I decide who is a Jew.” The struggle against Jew hatred is too important for it to be hijacked by official Israel in
Lo Stato di Israele si è da tempo arrogato il diritto di decidere chi è un Ebreo. Ora i nazionalisti stanno cercando di dettare al mondo la definizione solipsistica di chi è un antisemita. link to the article in Italian>>
Has the approach of Israel’s younger analysts been determined, or reinforced, by a political culture that stresses the idea that all evil comes from outside? On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Israel’s Psychoanalytic Society. read full article>> on Haaretz >>