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Dirty old town!
A few years ago I shared my translations of poems by the Odesa-born Victor Mall (1901-1989), a former student of Kazimir Malevich who, after settling in Los Angeles, built a career as a graphic designer. Mall, it turns out, wasn’t the only visual artist among the Russophone Angelenos with a sideline in verse. In fact, […]
“Here the Autumn Is Just Like in Kyiv”: Sergei Bongart Pays His Respects at Forest Lawn
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Schmaltzig
You have heard of Kafka’s work being known only because of its popularization by his middlebrow friend, Max Brod. Karl Kraus, the Viennese satirist, said, “Geist auf Brod ist Schmaltz,” which is to say, Brod couldn’t even appreciate what it is he was purveying. The high things of the spirit, mediated by Max Brod, are […]
Schmaltzig
The featured paper is ‘Withdrawal and Regression’ by Donald Winnicott originally published in 1954. Winnicott tells us that he has met several adult patients who regressed during analysis and recounts one case in particular in which there was transient regression. Winnicott is explicit about the terms and thus ‘By withdrawal in this paper I mean […]
Winnicott on Withdrawal and Regression
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