An Aesthetic Imperative- Spyros D. Orfanos, Phd, ABPP
The rebel psychoanalyst and womanizer Otto Rank wrote his magnum opus Art and Artist in 1932. An artist himself…
Category: Psychoanalysis
Endnote/ Why We Need Art – Velleda C. Ceccoli, PhD
Why is it that so many in the psychoanalytic community are artists? Perhaps it is the manner in which art…
An Aesthetic Imperative – Spyros D Orfanos, PhD, ABPP
The rebel psychoanalyst and womanizer Otto Rank wrote his magnum opus Art and Artist in 1932. An artist himself…
On the Nature Of Disappearance: A Modern Existential Dilemma * Paul Lippmann, PhD
In the oncoming shadow of Hitler and Nazi Germany, Bertold Brecht wrote: “Whatever you say, don’t say it twice If…
The Future of Nostalgia – Spyros D. Orfanos
The late Svetlana Boym, a brilliant Russian and Slavic scholar, wrote a remarkable history of “hypochondria of the heart”…
The Kiss – Patricia Ticineto Clough with Comments by Stephen Hartman
I was feeling strongly connected to my patient, a forty-year old, cis white, heterosexual…
Uncertainty and Change – Velleda C. Ceccoli
I took this photograph during one of my evening conversations with the ocean. It had been a beautiful day, sunny…
Pandemia – Isaac Tylim
In Greek mythology Pan is the god of wild nature. It represents the idealization of primitive states prior to the…
Whiteness Closing Ranks – Avgi Saketopoulou
In 2018, a few days before the start of an international psychoanalytic event, conference organizers sent a group email…
Risk Redux – Stephen Hartman, PhD
Remember New Year’s 2020? Six months ago feels like six lifetimes ago. Patricia Clough, psychoanalyst and media studies colleague,…