And then all at once the Joke is There
Review of Freud’s Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious Published in Hebrew in the Haaretz Review of Books>>
Articles
Who’s an Antisemite
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
Netanyahu e la falsa definizione della parola ‘antisemita’
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>>
Beyond the Trauma Principle
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 >>
Liberalism and the Science of Being Gay
Try to hold a serious discussion about the interconnection between the “political” and the “psychic” – such as the corrupting consequences of the occupation and the oppression of the Palestinians on the psyche and sexuality of the country’s citizens; or on the connection between state-sponsored violence and the violence on
Countering the rise of Counter-Psychology
A recent statement by cognitive scientists on recovered memory casts misleading doubts on the very underpinnings of Freudian psychology, while undermining the struggle against sexual violence perpetrated on children. read full article>> read on Haaretz>>
The Real Opposition
What Israeli democracy needs is not a new government, but educators like Herzl Schubert who was seen taking part in the weekly demonstration at Nabi Saleh last month. full article>> article in Haaretz>>
Antisemitism: Variations on a Theme
Paper read in a conference on Antisemitism that was subsequently published in Czech>>
In Praise of Coerction
Only ‘involuntary treatment’ of Israeli rejectionism, executed with sincere concern for the country’s fate, will demonstrate to its citizens that there is no correct way to live an incorrect life. read full article>> read on Haaretz>>
Therapy and Ideology
Few chapters in the historiography of psychoanalysis are as densely packed with trans-cultural, ideological, institutional, and moral issues as the coming of psychoanalysis to Jewish Palestine – a geopolitical space which bears some of the deepest scars of twentieth-century European, and in particular German, history. From the historical as well