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Poetry and Psychoanalysis
I recently wrote an essay on William Blake's "Four Zoas" and Freud's paper on "Splitting of the Ego". Whereas for Freud and contemporary...
"The Double Bind" with the Editor's e-mail
Dear Emily, Thanks for sending me this fascinating short story. It is a pleasure to read your work again and I have now published your...
Civilization and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
I have been re-reading Freud's book written in 1928, the year before the Holocaust. In the book, Freud argues that human beings are...
Close Reading
The close reading of a text enables us to think through the implications of the writer and expand our empathy with the writer and enter...
Shelley
We celebrated the anniversary of his death on July 8 with the Romantic Scholars in Rome. "The Triumph of Life" was read in many different...
Perception and Cognition
Perception is attained by the five senses; yet it is also imprinted in the human brain which enables us to do everyday tasks without much...
Dante and Human Consciousness
I think that Dante wrote about human consciousness in his books. In "The New Life" he refers to his growing awareness of his body through...
The Polaris Trilogy
I started 2023 with the good news that my sonnet entitled "Pathfinder" was chosen to be published in the tripartite Anthology called "The...
Hybrid Forms in Literature
I think that the new hybrid forms assimilated into a literary text add an innovative touch to the texts. A poem which opens a chapter or...
Psychosomatics, Neuroscience, & Psychoanalysis
I think that a global approach that combines these topics into an integrative entity would be the right approach to solving many medical...



