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Weinergate, Papa Freud, and the Imperfect Father
Henry A. Murray’s story as told by a political ally While I was doing my dissertation research on literary history in America between the wars, I noticed that Freud and Marx were usually paired...
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Blue Bloods, Freud, trauma, 9/11
Poster for Blue Bloods I have seen every episode of the CBS drama Blue Bloods, starring Tom Selleck as a Catholic family patriarch. Selleck plays Frank Reagan, New York City ex-cop who has risen to...
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Moral atheists?
Blake's Ancient of Days, 1794 [This blog is dedicated to my daughter Jenny, who called my attention to the missing father in the Whitney Houston death coverage. See...
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Chardon High School, “negativity” and depth psychology
I woke up to the news of the shooting of several students at Chardon High School, Ohio. As I write this, pundits are already attempting to add to the paucity of concrete detail regarding this student...
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Eros and the problem of solidarity
Rothschild and the money power This is for Labor Day, September 3, 2012. I am trying to understand why a political party with such obvious internal conflicts of interest as the Democratic Party, is...
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Materialist history and the idea of Progress
Rerum Novarum by gercalher [This is the second of two blogs on the ambivalence surrounding the First Amendment. The first is http://clarespark.com/2012/09/21/milton-mason-melville-on-free-speech/. For...
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Abandonment anxiety and “moderation”
Over the weekend, I discovered that my computer had been hacked. It set me into waves of panic. The panic was about abandonment, and the subject leads me back to certain themes on my website that have...
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Holiday blues, Unhappy families
One of Freud’s primary themes in treatment of his patients was the separation of (idiosyncratic) neurotic anxiety from objective anxiety. Since anxiety disorders (along with depression and...
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Blogs on mental health
Virginia Woolf, suicide Most of this website is devoted to our political culture and its bizarre evasions of mental health issues. I blame this on an aversion to anything smacking of [the Jew] Freud...
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Romney v. the cultural politics of “Mean”
WSJ cover art March 2-3 Fox News Sunday, March 3, 2013, ran a long interview with Mitt Romney and Ann Romney. I was struck once again by how nice the Romneys were, and how “gentlemanly” were Mitt’s...
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What remains useful about Freud?
One version of individuality, NYC (For a prelude to this blog, see http://clarespark.com/2013/01/08/is-ahab-ahab-the-free-will-debate/.) It is obvious why many conservatives would reject anything...
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Babel vs. Sinai
Sinai desert sunrise over Red Sea This is the second of two blogs on the awful effects of collectivist propaganda, including Obama’s deployment of “the rhetoric of the political family.” See...
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“Power” and aristocratic radicals
For those interested in how others interpret “power” in socio-political terms see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_(social_and_political). Several Facebook friends have expressed concern about...
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Friendship in the era of anti-Freud
Paul Prud’hon, 1793 The publication today of the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-5 manual, reminds us that insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies alike have no interest in Freud’s...
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“Masters of Sex” and 70s feminism
This blog is not about porn, but about the la-dee-da attitude shown by some feminists not only with respect to the rigors of child-rearing, but without prior understanding of the emotional components...
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Is the US feminized? A Father’s Day blog
This blog is about the branch of feminism that focuses on fathers sharing child care responsibilities, unlike many of my previous blogs on feminism and sexual liberation (see...
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The Depression Grand Challenge: UCLA style
Human brain, conceptual computer artwork. HuffPo The well-funded David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA has issued its monthly fund-raising magazine, this one titled “The Golden Age of Brain Science.”...
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Aldous Huxley’s affinity to conservative values
Reread Huxley’s famous dystopian novel Brave New World (1932) with a Forward (1946) describing himself as “an anarchist,” (i.e., a counter-cultural mystic) but I was surprised to see how many of this...
View ArticleFox News and the cover up of Western racism (including the USA)
Every one at Fox News (with the exceptions of Ed Henry, Bryan Llenas– perhaps because is gay and a “person of color”- plus an unnamed mulatto academic whose name I don’t recall) has covered-up the...
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