MEMORY'S EYES is a contemporary New York Oedipus novel. It is written for readers who enjoy playing with concepts and storylines, here namely the classical Oedipus myth, Sophocles' three Theban plays, the psychoanalytical concept of the Oedipus complex, and its pop-cultural adaptations in cartoons and jokes. Tragic and funny, playful, but also challenging, readers will find themselves simultaneously knowing and not knowing, anticipating and surprised by how the truth slowly emerges. In Memory's Eyes Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau renews the emotional ...

Marco’s curiosity has captured me from the very beginning. His surprising openness has impressed and touched me.  I have found in his writing the gentle and free thinking of a child, a child  curious to explore the analytic perspectives developed in North America, which also attract me for what I perceive as being their creativity – a creativity which I did not find in  my own country, which is one of the reasons why I left it. Through his words I understood how important the history of psychoanalysis can be for us analytic candidates. ...

Rage and Creativity: How Feminism Sparked Psychoanalysis, (IPBooks), edited by Lucille Spira, with a major essay by Arlene Kramer Richards, celebrates the interplay between the ideals of second wave feminism and the principles of psychoanalysis. This lead off essay is followed by discussions from feminist psychoanalytic thinkers-women and men -conversing about the essay, gender, race, psychoanalysis and feminism. Among the contributors are: Rosemary Balsam, Sandra Cohen, Nancy Goodman, Dorothy E. Holmes, Nancy Kulish, Merle Molofsky, the Novicks, Jeffrey ...

Insouciant, serious, funny and profound, Climate of Opinion: Sigmund Freud in Poetry is the book to keep by your couch.  This panoply of poems unfolds like an analytic session, from family dynamics through personal antics, to the frustrating, delicately calibrated patient-therapist exchange.  Savvy anthologist Irene Willis invites everyone to Freud’s poetry party, from H.D. and Anna Freud to W.H. Auden and Philip Larkin.  Willis calls on the next generation of poets, too, from James Cummins and Lynn Emanuel to Louise Gluck, with a ...

This autobiography illustrates modern psychoanalysis’ view of the unconscious as a force determining various choices which turn out to be sometime not at all the ones we think to take for rational reasons. As an example, let’s think about what happened to me as a penniless refugee in Vienna (Austria) after a week drifting around:  “The key moments of the story, however, demonstrate all the way to the present day how tiny coincidences (the work of the Irrational!) may trigger important decisions. Walking along one of the avenues, I ...

Psychoanalysis in Fashion, the editors have assembled a series of riveting essays that span a broad range of connections between the unconscious mind and its expression in the dressing and adornment of the self. Fashion trends, hairdos, jewelry, and even cross-dressing are all fair game for the book's bold expositions and intriguing ideas. Conscious and unconscious fantasies play large roles in dressing up, which itself shapes, expresses, and even conceals portions of identity. Ultimately, we are shown how we banish the animal body while cloaking ourselves ...

When we refer to Sinatra as a narcissist, we mean that he felt like someone who was superior, deserving special treatment and who required excessive admiration. In addition, he tended to be oblivious to the feelings of others and had a strong sense of entitlement. A narcissistic label can be attributed to many people but it would be preferable to be seen as a personality type that can be either productive or unproductive. The productive ones are those who are driven to live up to their potential. They want to change the world or in Sinatra’s case ...

This work presents some thoughts on Play, Illusion, Reality, and Trauma in relation to the process between patient and analyst. A creative part of our journey in this discussion includes a look at the long career of Charlie Chaplin, in terms of his relationship with his audience as a metaphor for the analyst as audience to his patient and vice versa.   Patient and analyst, audience and artist, are mutually and hopefully salubriously intertwined as “involved witnesses” with each other’s communication, be they verbal or non-verbal. ...

This is an anthology of poems by outstanding poets of diverse backgrounds (age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexuality, etc.) from the U. S. and elsewhere in the world. While the timeliness of the theme would suggest that its purpose is political, it is only incidentally so.xnbsp; Actually, it has the same aim as psychoanalysis: catharsis through emotional understanding that can lead to transformative change. Although many poets have written about their personal experience as immigrants and that of their parents and grandparents, no single ...

“Arlene Kramer Richards represents the essence of psychoanalysis. Any struggle with trying to define what psychoanalysis is could be resolved by traveling with Arlene as she thinks, explores the psyche, practices in her consulting room, teaches, supervises, and writes. The papers in this volume contain her breakthrough ideas and the way she conveys them to us. You find here a world of deep psychoanalytic exploration into areas of female development, creativity and poetry, compromises leading to perverseness of mind and the experience of extreme loneliness. ...