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Kurt Jacobsen
Kurt Jacobsen In 1959 Bruno Bettelheim, his own reputation in ascent (and since unjustly despoiled in the US ), reviewed Erich Fromm’s volume Sigmund Freud’s Mission, a perceptive little book he later thought could be most instructively compared with Ernest Jones’ adulatory and unreflective rendition of the master. So Bettelheim paired the reviews in the…
Read Full Article...The advent of Dolly the cloned sheep in 1996 – RIP in 2003 – left many an onlooker feeling both celebrative and uneasy.1 With irrepressibly manic ingenuity the biological sciences are dissolving our supposedly fuddy-duddy moral boundaries so that many scientists find themselves in debates they really would rather avoid as to the wisdom of playing cavalierly…
Read Full Article...On the terrible morning of the London suicide bombings the Sky news cable channel in Britain, owned by Rupert Murdoch and anchored by manic Murdochian mannequins, summoned three terrorism experts plus an Amnesty International spokeswoman. The latter obviously was tossed in for a bit of balance, although duly outnumbered by what one guessed were truculent…
Read Full Article...Sylvia Zwettler-Otte was from 2001-2004 President of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. Her most recent book is ‘Freud in Der Presse’ co-written with Marina Tichy. We met in July 2005 in London where she genially agreed to this wide-ranging interview. Our conversation darted from Freud’s reception in Vienna in his early years of struggle, to the…
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