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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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Sex and Porn
Sex and Porn O boy! A hot topic! I bet I get a hundred million followers! Some years ago, a friend of mine, a well-known feminist writer, discovered that her psychiatrist husband was being unfaithful to her. Worse, his infidelity … Continue reading
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Tagged a life of one's own, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Getting Past Marx and Freud", addiction, animality, art of being a woman, Arthur Schopenhauer, being with-it, betrayal, book reviews, Charles Darwin, contemporary mores, Darwin’s Origin of the Species, decadence, divorce, enforcing consensus, erotic expectations, Friedrich Nietzsche, German Romanticism, getting hooked, group pressure, historical romance novels, human motivation, human nature, hypnotic therapy, ID, infidelity, inhibitions, Intellectual fashion, libido, Linda Tarazi’s Under the Inquisition: an experience relived, losing inhibitions, medical malpractice, Nancy Jo Sales’ American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers, obsession, past life regression, past life therapy, past lives, peer pressure, Peggy Orenstein’s Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape, pleasure, political correctness, pornography, post modernism, primal aims, prudish, psychiatric malpractice, reductionism, repression, reviewers, romance novels, settled science, sex, Sexuality, sociobiology, soft porn, Spanish Inquisition, species aims, the new normal, The New York Review of Books, the unconscious, theory-driven, traditionalism, trauma, trendiness, uptight, will-to-life, will-to-power, woman’s wisdom, Zoe Heller
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“Things in Their Right Places”
“Things in Their Right Places” The editing of my to-be-reissued memoir has its own life rhythms. The version that appeared a decade ago included a scaffolding of explanations. At that point, I was trying to do something that received opinion, … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-Israel, anti-semitism, anti-Zionism, argument, Ariadne, bigotry, biochemical, Brooklyn College, brownshirts, cause, diagnosis, doctors, editing, Freud, Germany in the 30s, Greek mythology, handicap, holistic treatment, horses, infamy, intimidation, labyrinths, memoir, Minotaur, MRI, muscular, narrative, neurologist, physiatrist, physical therapy, post modernism, purposefulness, resignation, stoicism, the unconscious, theory, therapeutic riding, Theseus, university campuses, Western medicine
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