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The cuisine of Middle Earth
posted: Nov. 28, 2023.
Tolkien left much to imagination in his trilogy (and prequel). Of course, one wants to know how they all went to the bathroom. One assumes they buried their waste--still, how Read more -
Happy Chanukah, Chayalim
posted: Nov. 19, 2023.
Chayal is Hebrew for soldier. It is modern Hebrew, coined by ben Yehuda, the father of modern (non-biblical) Hebrew. Last night I went to SIP (Shul of Inane Psychopaths) to pack Read more -
Horton hear: We are here.
posted: Oct. 24, 2023.
On Sunday evening, dissatisfied with the institutionalized offerings, noting that the only women who were allowed to speak or sing were an elite group, status acquired via marriage or birth. Read more -
Day of Awe
posted: Oct. 08, 2023.
UPDATE: Oct. 15, 2023: This was a pogrom--with a difference. When pogroms came, Jews were stateless refugees, fleeing to Germany, Hungary, America, England. Jews are no longer stateless--try a pogrom--the Read more -
What would the founding fathers of psychoanalysis thought of Telehealth
posted: Oct. 04, 2023.
Freud and his brethren are viewed by American's as fusty, fussy, and firmly affixed in some Victorian vestry. But shake off your cobwebs. Freud (and the others) were the first Read more -
Another futile day of protest
posted: Jul. 28, 2023.
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Balaam's ass
posted: Jul. 01, 2023.
I believe the portion this week dwelt with Balaam, tasked with by King Barak to do something about the out of control surge of proto-Jewish refugees squatting in Midian. They Read more -
Dead Souls
posted: Jun. 29, 2023.
You whom are about to die--we salute you. And that is the fate of all mankind, after all. But we repress death and obsess with sex (which I believe is Read more -
Who is crazy? Us or the patient. Redux
posted: Jun. 17, 2023.
The "thinly" veiled contempt that Ferenczi wrote of, from psychoanalyst to patient, has now become the norm of all medical practice in the United States. Think of it--the poor get Read more -
Girls Rule
posted: May 30, 2023.
I decided to watch "Alice in Wonderland," the 1915 version on Youtube last night. What ginned it was watching Jefferson Airplane's WHITE RABBIT video and realizing that much of the Read more -
Theory of Mind
posted: Apr. 09, 2023.
I realized this week what traits distinguish people I find delightfully gemultlikeit and those I just want to slap. Theory of Mind (ToM). Theory of mind is a concept from Read more -
What was it all for?
posted: Mar. 31, 2023.
My public school life, even though it occurred in a one-horse, anti-Semitic, blue-collar town, daily offered us aspirational cognitiions, with hope for a mutlicultural, pluralistic society where the US was Read more -
Hobbits are us
posted: Mar. 10, 2023.
Tolkien's genius was not so much about the creation of languages no urbane person would wish to admit to speak. It was not so much about the revitalization of Nordic Read more -
Chutzpah over credentials equals sociopathy
posted: Feb. 05, 2023.
This past Friday I was invited to dinner by a woman who promotes herself as a psychotherapist. She does a lot of telehealth these days with patients in Israel. Read more -
Existentialism in DeLillo
posted: Jan. 01, 2023.
Looking for a new book, and just finding all the new books stacked enticingly on the front desks at Barnes and Noble jejeune, jaundiced, and banded together in a bandwagon Read more -
Rising tides for some means leaking drainpipes for us
posted: Dec. 04, 2022.
Yesterday I testified in front of the CUNY Board of Trustees. Adjunct contracts end in February. According to US News and World Reports, 22% of matriculating students graduate from a two Read more
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