“In recent years, the comic book genre has been applied to a wealth of graphic nonfiction for grownups, ranging from famous biographies to philosophy, but nowhere does the genre shine more exquisitely than in Freud — a magnificent biography-as-graphic-novel of the founding father of psychoanalysis by Swiss-born writer, economist, historian, and psychoanalyst Corinne Maier, illustrated by celebrated French cartoonist Anne Simon.”>full review (c) brainpickings.org 2014
Archive for Psychoanalysis
Freud’s Life & Legacy – in a Comic
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, biography, comics, graphic nonfiction, Psychoanalysis, review, Sigmund Freud, Vienna on 16 February 2014 by delclemWilhelm Reich: genius, charlatan, victim?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Organ, prosecution, Psychoanalysis, science, USA, Wilhelm Reich on 19 July 2013 by delclem
“It was the greatest incidence of scientific persecution in American history.
In July of 1947, Dr Wilhelm Reich—a brilliant but troubled psychoanalyst who had once been Freud’s most promising student, who had enraged the Nazis and the Stalinists as well as the psychoanalytic, medical and scientific communities, who had survived two World Wars and fled to New York—was dying in a prison cell in Lewisberg, Pennsylvania, accused by the government of being a medical fraud engaged in a ‘sex racket’.” >more (c) motherboard.com 2013
Philosophical alternative to Freud’s couch
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Aleksandar Fatić, philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Serbia, thearpy on 28 March 2012 by delclem
The worldwide trend from America, namely seeking psychological support
from practicing philosophers, has been adopted in Serbia as well.
> text (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
Cronenberg & Mortensen do Freud
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, C. G. Jung, Canada, David Cronenberg, Fin-de-siècle, Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, Vienna, Viggo Mortensen on 7 November 2011 by delclemViggo Mortensen replaced Christoph Waltz when it came to play Sigmund Freud in David Cronenberg’s new film A Dangerous Method (2011)
> Article on “Freuds movie treatments”.
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