Tag Archives: Male Power
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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“Philosophical Gossip”
“Philosophical Gossip” Not long ago, the writer Cynthia Ozick had a front page piece in the New York Times Book Review about gossip. In her usual talent-laden voice, Ozick wrestles with the double sense of gossip. Could it be deplorable … Continue reading
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Tagged "the evil tongue", "the few and the many", "the noble and the base", 19th century novels, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Defining Evil Away: Arendt's Forgiveness", banality of evil, behaviorism, Bettina Stangneth's Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer, censorship, charisma, clandestine romance, classical philosophers, colleagues, collegiality, conventional religion, courtship, Cynthia Ozick, Cynthia Ozick's "The Novel's Evil Tongue", de-Nazification, dominance and submission, dramatic lives, eavesdropping, Eichmann trial transcript, emigres, evil as conformism, female vulnerability, Femininity, fiction, flattery, free will, freedom, German-Jewish philosophers, German-Jewish students, gossip, Hannah Arendt, Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Hans Jonas Memoirs, Hans Jonas The Gnostic Religion, Henry James, historical characters, Jane Austen, lashon hara, Leo Strauss, Leo Strauss' Persecution and the Art of Writing, Letters 1925-1975: Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger, lifelong love affair, lifelong romance, love letter, Male Power, malice, Martin Heidegger, modern sensibility, Modernity, moral choice, narrative, novelists, Orthodox Judaism, persecution, persona, personal magnetism, personal v political, philosophers, philosophic friendships, philosophic lives, philosophic romances, Philosophy v Religion, plot lines, private passion, private persons, professorial power, public intellectuals, public v private, refugees, seduction, slander, Stanley Rosen, Tarzan and Jane, The Nazi Party, The New York Times Book Review, theologians, Tolstoy, University of Chicago, unpretentiousness, whitewashing, World War II
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