Category: Books
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Freud’s Cheerful Pessimism
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Peter Gay’s biography of Freud (Freud A Life for Our Time) has provided me with the sweeping arc of the man’s life and especially articulated his often abstract if not abstruse theories in lucid prose. I was a mere lad in my twenties when I picked up Beyond the Pleasure Principle;…
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On Reading Christopher Hitchens’ “God is not Great”
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The subtitle reads “How Religion Poisons Everything.” This will be a rather discursive blog, so hold on as I cherry pick ideas as we go along. Psychotherapy if decently and competently practiced and if openly and willingly entered into can shake a client to the roots of his or her…
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LEVIATHAN — WORKING-THROUGH THE HOLOCAUST
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Sitting downstairs is the first good draft of the above titled book. Coming in about 185 pages, it contains about 20 or more original stories written since I thought about writing such a book, I believe, in May 2009. Jane will do the first reading of it, writing notes for her…