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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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http://www.tabletmag.com/audio/podcast_feature102109_slavet.mp3In Moses and Monotheism, Freud advanced his theory of what makes Jews Jewish and how they managed to survive thousands of years of...
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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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