In Search of the Good Life: Emmanuel Levinas, Psychoanalysis and the Art of Living by Paul Marcus
Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995), French phenomenological philosopher and Talmudic commentator, is regarded as perhaps the greatest ethical philosopher of our time.
Hello! 👋 My name is Greta, I am academic at the intersection of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and epistemology, working in the United Kingdom (University of Derby) and Lithuania (Vilnius University, where I am currently based as Associate Professor).
Just migrated from Twitter, so if psychotherapy research (partcularly focusing on the threads/gaps between practice and research) - please feel free to follow and say hello!
A BIZARRE, CULTISH COMMUNE, centered around some extreme psychoanalytic theories, hiding in plain sight in Manhattan brownstones, with adherents as famous as Judy Collins and Jackson Pollock. Intensive research and interviews tell a wild story. A MINUS
Very strange, innovative and wordy comic that was of it's time, when EC Comics was trying anything to find a breakout trend, as horror and crime comics were five years before (1 of 3)
The Interpretation of Dreams is a book by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, in which the author introduces his theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation, & discusses what would later become the theory of the Oedipus complex was published #OTD in 1899.
Dated 1900, the book was first published in an edition of 600 copies, which did not sell out for 8 years. Because of the book's length and complexity, Freud also wrote an abridged version called On Dreams.
I'm attending a #Lacanian#psychoanalysis workshop via zoom. The content is excellent but they've set it up so you can't see any of the other attendees, either on zoom or in vivo, just the speakers and their slides.
It feels particularly disembodied and not very Lacanian. Mucho Master's Discourse.
" [#OpenAI ] is currently being used to steal all knowledge — um sorry, steal isn't the correct word to use given the present political context; I mean, to aquire all knowledge — by using #distillation"
Had Geoffrey Hinton studied #psychoanalysis perhaps he'd recognize that his concept of distillation is just a mechanization of #Freud's concept of condensation, but perhaps more importantly he'd be acutely aware of the meaning of "parapraxis" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGgGOccMEiY
🏢 "I see what is going to happen. And what is going to happen cannot be endured."
There have been many efforts to adapt DM Thomas's sprawling novel The White Hotel for the screen. Influential playwright and TV writer Dennis Potter wrote a screenplay but it remained unproduced for decades.
This radio production brings together a brilliant cast and a director who worked with Potter. An extraordinary, vivid listen, on BBC Sounds.
"Tal é o temor que se apossa do homem ao descobrir a figura de seu poder, que ele se desvia dela, na ação que é dela mesma e quando essa ação a mostra nua"