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Would have been nice to have heard some of those discussions but my German would not quite have been up to it- especially with the Viennese accent!
Introduction
The Vienna Psychoanalytic Society (German: Wiener Psychoanalytische Vereinigung, WPV), formerly known as the Wednesday Psychological Society, is the oldest psychoanalysis society in the world.
In 1908, reflecting its growing institutional status as the international psychoanalytic authority of the time, the Wednesday group was reconstituted under its new name with Sigmund Freud as President, a position he relinquished in 1910 in favour of Alfred Adler.
During its 36-year history, between 1902 and 1938, the Society had a total of 150 members.
First Meetings
In November 1902, Sigmund Freud wrote to Alfred Adler, “A small circle of colleagues and supporters afford me the great pleasure of coming to my house in the evening (8:30 PM after dinner) to discuss interesting topics in psychology and neuropathology… Would you be so kind as to join us?” The group included Wilhelm Stekel, Max Kahane and Rudolf Reitler, soon joined by Adler. Stekel, a Viennese…
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Blue Forest, United Kingdom
Reminds me a little of the bluebell wos at Godolphin in the Spring.
Karl Abraham was Melanie Klein’s analyst; see https://melanie-klein-trust.org.uk/resources/karl-abraham-life-and-work-a-biography/ https://melanie-klein-trust.org.uk/resources/karl-abraham-life-and-work-a-biography. Very interesting to read about the low fees at that time.
Introduction
The Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute (later the Göring Institute) was founded in 1920 to further the science of psychoanalysis in Berlin.
Its founding members included Karl Abraham and Max Eitingon. The scientists at the institute furthered Sigmund Freud’s work but also challenged many of his ideas.
Brief History
The Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute grew from the Psychoanalytic Polyclinic (psychoanalytische Poliklinik) founded in February 1920. The Polyclinic allowed access to psychoanalysis by low-income patients. Only some 10% of its income came from patients’ fees; the rest was provided personally by Max Eitingon. It introduced the three-column, or “Eitingon”, model for the training of analysts (theoretical courses, personal analysis, first patients under supervision), which was later adopted by most other training centres. In 1925, Eitingon became chair of the new International Training Committee of the International Psychoanalytic Association. The Eitingon model remains standard today.
The Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute itself was founded in 1923…
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“There is no sexual relationship”
Interesting, this all makes perfect sense it seems. However it leaves me feeling curiously sceptical and possibly a little disenchanted!
Wherever we look around us – especially while in a morose and misanthropic mood – we see “relationships”. Now, strictly philosophically speaking, a “relationship” is a concept designating an element which mediates between two things. Accordingly, we can propose, for example, that there is a “relation of proximity” between me and my cat right at this moment, or a “relation of friendship” between me and my neighbour, etc. The question at the forefront of our discussion today will revolve an especially interesting relationship – the “sexual relationship” – and more particularly Jacques Lacan’s assertion that “There is no sexual relationship”.
Lets start with a first definition: a sexual relationship mediates between two individuals and involves sexual enjoyment.
[The polyamorous readers might take into account that a ternary relationship (a threesome) actually consists of three binary relationships]
Thomas Ruff, Nudes, 2000
But what exactly is sexual enjoyment? Well, we can approach the question of sexual enjoyment (without discriminating any of its forms) on two…
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All around us life on Earth lives and dies in the constant cycle of passing on the genes of one generation to the next. Few of us rarely think about this and some, perhaps many, never. Unfortunately human numbers along with their increasing use of natural resources are causing great damage to these interconnected ecosystems. We are in many cases ignorant of the damage we cause to the very life support systems that we actually need to pass on our genes from one generation to the next. 12th October 2013.
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Interesting sketches- looks a very attractive town/area!
Interesting and it makes me think also about the political sphere where maybe collective/collaborative action may help bring change. Praxis is the transformation of subjectivity through the process of human action and may involve loss of some personal illusions.
Throughout our quests for the perfect mate, we frequently find ourselves fantasizing about what that mate would be like: we envision an attractive, intelligent, deeply compassionate, ambitious, and empathic individual entering our lives to save us from the mundane and the awful. We create internal stories of us meeting, falling in love, introducing each another to our parents, and having children, in essence, living happily ever-after. These stories become our blueprints, guiding us on our dates as we use them to vet our prospective mates, weeding out the ones who are unacceptable. While our lives progress and our timelines fade, we may begin to accept the fruitlessness of our quest, acknowledging the discrepancy between the people we meet and date and our romanticized images of love. Sometimes, we choose to disavow our prior expectations, with the belief that reality can’t correlate with fantasy; but at others, this recognition engenders a…
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Cobblestone Street, Alsace, France
A detailed and fascinating article. It makes me wonder if the photography by various guerrilla and clandestine groups got as much attention as that of these “regular” forces.
(published 8 May 2019)
All photographs: Imperial War Museums, the German Federal Archives/Bundesarchiv and Hilary Roberts.
During WWII, Athens remained under Axis occupation from April 1941 to October 1944. The international conference “The Occupier’s Gaze: Athens in the Photographs of the German Soldiers, 1941-1944” held by the Directorate of Modern Cultural Heritage of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, on 12 April 2019, shed light on rare historical evidence, illustrating an aspect of that time we do not often think about: the way the occupied Greece, with its reach history and symbolisms for European culture, was viewed by the conquering forces.
Greek News Agenda spoke* with Hilary Roberts of the Imperial War Museums (IWM), regarding her paper presented at the conference, titled “A Foreign Perspective: German and British Photography in Greece 1940-1945”; drawing on the photographic collections of the German…
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