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Peter Gay, a Prolific Historian Who About The Enlightenment and Freud, Dies...
Peter Gay, who wrote more than 25 books over the course of his career, including seminal works about The Enlightenment, Sigmund Freud, Mozart, and Weimar Culture, died on Tuesday at his home in...
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Few crackpots are exhumed and reinterred as regularly as the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich. It is not clear why. One explanation is comedic: Reich was, and continues to be, an enormously entertaining...
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Photo: Laughing Mask by abbey*christine / Abbey Hambright; some rights reserved. In addition to being an avid interpreter of dreams, Sigmund Freud was also an avid interpreter of jokes, and a...
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• President Obama should have known better than to put up his feet while chatting on the phone with Israeli P.M. Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday. “There is no greater insult in the Middle East...
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In Moses and Monotheism, Freud advanced his theory of what makes Jews Jewish and how they managed to survive thousands of years of anti-Semitic persecution: he believed that certain events were so...
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Mullock’s Specialist Auctioneers have an interesting specimen for sale: a watercolor painting of a pastoral church, with two intriguing names on it. On the back, implying the one-time owner: “Sigmund...
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I was warned off the film by well-meaning friends—one of whom worried I would take it too personally, given my Teutonic background, and another disturbed by what she described as the film’s atmosphere...
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“I have ever been unideological. I have sophisticated skin and naïve bones.” Thus wrote Saul Bellow in 1955, four days after turning 40, to Leslie Fiedler, a guy he didn’t have too much time for, but...
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Freud & Fahler, an airy, elegant café in Buenos Aires’ chic Palermo Soho neighborhood, is named for the original owner’s two greatest loves. Fahler, my waitress tells me, was the woman’s husband....
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The New Yorker reports (subscription-only) on the progress Freudianism has made in China.* And a fantastic Newsweek article (via Atlantic Wire) chronicles the plethora of Chinese books that, seeking to...
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Today’s big trending topic on Twitter is #lessinterestingbooks, the joke being that you take the titles of famous books and re-imagine them as, well, less interesting (so, I dunno, The Okay Gatsby, The...
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• Good piece on Israel’s wildly successful anti-flotilla diplomacy, which has on one front evolved into a “ bidding war between [Turkey and Greece] to help Israel.” [Guardian] • Yet Turkish Prime...
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Jonathan Wilson on Elias Canetti, Lost Books.
“Lost Books” is a weekly series highlighting forgotten books through the prism of Tablet Magazine’s and Nextbook.org’s archives. So blow the dust off the cover, and begin! Earlier this week, 106 years...
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Agenda: Tablet’s Cultural Events Calendar
Agenda is Tablet Magazine’s weekly listing of upcoming cultural events. New York: The eighth annual Festival of New Literature From Europe spans five days beginning Tuesday, features a new film...
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A Trip From Yeshiva to Hypnosis
The first time we hypnotized Norman, we made his body stiff like a board. We lifted his head while his feet were on the ground. Then we lifted his feet while his head was on the ground. Then we hung...
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The Tragic Life and Surreal Illustrations of Tom Seidmann-Freud, Sigmund...
When I first saw vintage illustrations by Tom Seidmann-Freud—Sigmund Freud’s niece—on the book design blog 50 Watts, I was gobsmacked. They’re unnerving, surreal, modern-looking, dark, and dreamy. In...
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Growing Up Observant in the Republic of the Talmud, One Man Peeks Through the...
Although my father is a citizen of the United States, he lives in his own republic: the republic of the Talmud. To be sure, every man lives in his own republic. In one republic, love is the currency;...
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Uncovering the Surprising Family Link Between Freud’s Inner Circle and the...
Novelists often engage in research to learn the background and provide verisimilitude for historical yarns, but we intended nothing of the kind when we began an inquiry into an espionage controversy...
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The Statistician Nate Silver Is the Unofficial Winner of Today's Election
Today’s election may be a contest between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, but for hordes of pundits and political news junkies it is also, at least in part, a referendum on the statistician Nate Silver....
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What Would Freud Say About Mother's Day?
Last week when a Friend-of-Tablet reminded us that Sigmund Freud’s birthday was fast approaching, he urged us to pay tribute to one of the most influential figures in history, Jewish history, and...
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More Praise of "Censorship" at Hillel: Let's Be Honest About What...
I was happy to see that my Scroll post in praise of “censorship” at Hillel provoked some fierce and wholly uncensored debate; unanimous agreement would have been better, but I guess you can’t have...
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Thieves Smash Urn Containing Freud's Ashes in London
On New Years Day, the urn containing Sigmund Freud’s ashes was found to be, like the future of psychoanalysis, in shambles. The Guardian reports that the shards of the urn, which dates back to 300 B.C....
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Lucian Freud in Vienna: Terrible Father, Cruel Lover, Hell of a Painter
When the previous record for the world’s most expensive painting was blown away by the price paid at auction for Francis Bacon’s 1969 triptych “Three Studies of Lucian Freud” this past November, two...
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The Secret Lives of Jewish Mothers
Continue reading: Gertrude Stein Continue reading "The Secret Lives of Jewish Mothers" at...
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Sponsored Content: ‘Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst’ by Adam...
This is a sponsored post on behalf of Yale University Press and their Jewish Lives series. In 1894 the Jewish French soldier Alfred Dreyfus—who had graduated ninth out of a class of eighty-two from the...
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Adam Phillips Talks About Freud and Jewishness
This is a sponsored podcast on behalf of Yale University Press and their Jewish Lives series.Continue reading "Adam Phillips Talks About Freud and Jewishness" at...
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Meet the Famous Freudian Who Converted to Catholicism and Then Was Forgotten
Four years ago, on a January afternoon while Montreal was in the middle of another subarctic deep freeze, I boarded a plane for Munich. Hours before, as the wheels of the taxi spun on the ice and...
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Why Stefan Zweig’s Illusion of a Good Europe That Never Was Bewitches Us Still
What is it about Stefan Zweig that has so captured the contemporary imagination? In the last year alone, the elusive Austrian writer was the named inspiration for Wes Anderson’s recent film The Grand...
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When Is a Father’s Attention Too Much for a Son To Bear?
A man came to my psychotherapy office with his adult son. They were in business together but were having trouble. The father had done a lot for his son—raised him, sent him to good schools, invited him...
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This Week on Unorthodox, Author Eric Weiner and Oxford English Dictionary...
This week on Unorthodox: Israeli settlers and Palestinians work together … to grow marijuana. Our Jewish guest is Eric Weiner, former NPR Jerusalem bureau chief and author of the new book The Geography...
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These Graphic Bios About Freud, Marx, and Einstein Belong on Your Summer...
I am utterly smitten with these funny, thoughtful, and gorgeously published graphic bios from NoBrow Press about Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, and Albert Einstein. Written by Belgian psychoanalyst Corinne...
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'How Does That Make You Feel?' Is a Collection of Essays Written by...
Many Jews wear their neuroses as a source of pride. We “chosen ones” were born with the ingredients for anxiety: high intelligence, fine-tuned sensitivity, and a horrifying history of persecution....
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Library of Congress Releases Digital Collection of Freud's Papers—All 20,000...
The Library of Congress made available today a 20,000-item online collection of Sigmund Freud’s personal papers (search it here and here), everything from correspondence (letters, postcards) with his...
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New Bio of Sabina Spielrein: Raped By Carl Jung, Then Murdered by the Nazis
Tablet Top Ten: An entirely subjective list, presented in no particular order, of our 10 favorite articles from Tablet’s Arts & Culture and News & Politics sections in 2017. “Favorite” here...
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The Psychology Behind Yiddish Literature
Blume Pfeffer was born in 1907 in Galicia to a family that placed no particular importance on the education of girls. She dreamed of writing, a dream that was only realized when Blume, now married to...
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The Freud Rabbit
What to make of Sarah Boxer? She’s a reporter, an editor, a critic, and a writer of psychoanalytic comix. OK, psychoanalytic graphic novels, if you prefer. With her squiggly, hand-drawn words and...
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