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A Misremembered Woman
A Misremembered Woman I found a book to read for the flight from Philadelphia to Ontario, California, this past week. It was about a woman named Sabina Spielrein. I’d never heard of her, but she’s an important figure in the … Continue reading
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Tagged "The Love Cure", Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", abuse of power, alpha males, biology and socialization, blotting a reputation, Carl Jung, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, creative empathy, creativity, culture heroes, death and rebirth, death instinct, desire stylized, doctor/patient relationship, driving women crazy, erasure of woman's intellectual legacy, erotic union, essentialism, female sexuality, feminine concepts, feminine ideals, Femininity, Feminism, feminist rehabilitations, Freud's Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, intellectual competitors, intellectual women, Jung's archetypes, male abuse, Male Power, male preserves, medical malpractice, mistress, mythic motifs, name calling as diagnosis, Nazi invasion of USSR, opinion shapers, perversion of influence, Phyllis Chesler, Phyllis Chesler's "Raped By Carl Jung Then Murdered By The Nazis" 11/6/17, Russia in the 1920s, Schizophrenia, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, social construction of gender, Soviet persecution, the Freud/Jung correspondence, The Freud/Jung Letters The Correspondence between Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung ed.William McGuire, The Mothers, the psyche of a man, the soul of a woman, the unconscious, therapeutic malpractice, unwomanly women, What does woman want?, winners and losers, woman culture heroes, women novelists
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I Believed Juanita Back When
I Believed Juanita Back When When I watched Lisa Meyers’ NBC interview with Juanita Broaddrick, back when President Bill Clinton had just survived an impeachment vote in the Senate, I called myself a “Clinton Democrat.” Why then would I bother … Continue reading
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