To say this last year 2020 has been difficult for us all, is a gross understatement. The pandemic, which I dare anyone to say that they anticipated, has turned everyone’s life upside down including our professional life. With the spread of Covid 19, the intentional steady and deliberate timelessness of the analytic endeavor was brought …
Occasions arise when it feels opportune to look back see where the psychoanalytic trail began and where it has led. I have been in the field for now 30 years and, like many others, have seen my share of the theoretical controversies that seemed at times to consume us. At the outset, it is unquestionably …
There are always “lessons” that we, as survivors, try to extract from these tragic ends. There is a powerful need to explain, and explain away, what feels to most of us frightening inexplicable e.g. How could someone so…. rich, successful, famous, young, full of promise feel so hopeless, so dead-ended to do this? As a …
A Chinese curse goes as follows: May you live in interesting times! We are in one of these. There have been massive shifts in alliances that have existed for over fifty years since the end of the last World WAR. Friends become enemies and enemies become friends as the political economic horizon has changed. Here …
It seems like every night and possibly all day long the media offers us constant reminder of the multiple splits in our nation. While of course it is necessary to recognize and support populations who are or have been mistreated or neglected or ignored, there is a danger in doing this that we become less …
There is so much dissension; how can we come together? Read More »
In a recently submitted paper: “A Universal Unconscious Fantasy as the Basis for Dreaming” I attempted to highlight the value of the work of Bertram Lewin. He was perhaps best known for his identifying the “dream screen” (“Sleep, mouth and the Dream Screen”, Psy. Quart 15:419-434) as a special element in dream life. He correlated …
THE DREAM SCREEN AND SOCIAL MEDIA, ARE WE CONNECTING OR LOSING TOUCH? Read More »
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