Memory since Freud
How did Psychoanalysis change our concept of memory Boardcasted Lecture June 3. 2018 in Hebrew
Lectures
Guilt and its Vicissitudes
Keynote paper in the Annual Conference of the Program for Psychotherapy and the Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University. December 2016 Read full lecture in Hebrew>>
Who is afraid of a psychoanalytic Weltanschauung
it’s high time that we free ourselves from Freud’s restrictive definition of what is a Weltanschaaung, and accept the fact that the practice of psychoanalysis entails more than a questioning attitude to the riddles of life carried out by means of a rigorous scientific method. Is it really a sign
Deadly Subjects: Vengeance and Self-Sacrifice as Political Weapon
Present day suicide Killing cannot be dismissed as representing downright individual psychopathology, or demonized as the incarnation of Islamist religious devotion. Performed in front of millions of people the violent spectacles of the 21 Century merit a transdisciplinary approach. It as an impending social-ˇpsychological catastrophe threatening not only its direct victims,
psychoanalysis in Jerusalem: Past and Present
Since the early days of psychoanalysis psychoanalysts are indisposed to bring together psychoanalysis with a particular world-view (Weltanschauung). Yet it is hardly possible to understand the dissemination of psychoanalysis and its development in various countries throughout the Twentieth Century without considering the conflicting intellectual, cultural and political “climates of opinion”
The Bad The Mad and The Functional
It is one thing to mourn the losses inflicted on Humanity over the centuries by the murderous incarnations of anti-Semitism from a depressive position. It is a totally different thing to adopt a melancholic stance to history and to counter anti-Semitism from the same paranoid position in which the
One Anti-Semitism or Many?
The Bad, The Mad and the Functional: One Anti-Semitism or Many? Psychoanalytic practice taught us to perceive archaic defense mechanisms and transference enactments not only as pathological, but also as developmentally functional and communicative. The propensity for regression, scapegoating, projective-identification, and generalization cannot be “banned” from language and from public
History and Psychoanalytic Theory
Although we cannot expect the historiography of psychoanalysis to tell us “how much political reality psychoanalysis can bear,” there are chapters in the history of our science which provide insights regarding that frontier where various conceptions of analytic theory meet the realm of politics, social aggression, and ideology. One such
Interview at Sigmund Freud Museum London
Author’s talk- Stephen Frosh with Eran Rolnik at the Freud Museum, February 9 2013 Link to the Lecture and the Interview>>
A Brush with the Law: Freud and Hans Kelsen
Much has been said about the intellectual ferment that characterized late 19 century and early 20 century Vienna. Of particular interest are the intersections between the various circles that operated in Vienna at that time. Having done some work on two of the most radical currents that operated in Vienna,