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Feb.03.2010
Psychoanalysis is in many ways like a religion. People trace their lineage as it were from the Prophet Freud and from his early disciples. Sitting on stage in front of an audience of 130 people at the Austrian Cultural Forum, I wondered what the analystsin the audience would say about what could be...
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Jan.29.2009
Laura Gonzalez has a blog on psychoanalysis and art (http://lauragonzalez.co.uk/) and this morning she reviewed Vienna Triangle. Besides calling it a masterful account of psychoanalysis and the human weaknesses of its practitioners, I was delighted and amused by the way she identified with my...
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Dec.30.2008
After ten books you'd think I wouldn't be so excited but I am. My book cover with the beautiful, sensuous Klimt painting of two lovers invites you to touch it. I didn't just touch it, I smelled the paper fresh off the press, admired the type and finally read the first page. That took me back to an...
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Nov.11.2008
The other day I found a blog by Laura Gonzales www.lauragonzales.co.uk that  has some interesting speculations about art and psychoanalysis. But what really attracted me was her interest in the word "seduction". Isn't the transference itself a work of seduction, I wanted to ask her. Over...