The Contemporary Freudian Tradition: Past and Present,edited by Ken Robinson and Joan Schächter,Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2021, 370 pp

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis -     

A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Body in Today’s World,edited by Vaia Tsolas and Christine Anzieu-Premmereur,Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2018, 212 pp.

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis -     

Reading Freud’s Patients: Memoir,Narrative and the Analysand,by Anat Tzur Mahalel,Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2020, 225 pp.

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis -     

Why War?: Making Sense of Consciousness and Self,by Mario Rendón,International Psychoanalytic Books,New York, 2018, 663 pp.

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis -     

Review of Haydée Faimberg,The telescoping of Generations: Listening to the Narcissistic Links between Generations,London and New York,Routledge, 2005

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The V Nordic Conference of IFPS, Sweden January 23-24,1993

Activities of The Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society October 1992-June 1993     

Book Reviews : Galin Tihanov,The Master and the Slave: Lukács,Bakhtin, and the Ideas of their Time,Oxford University Press,New York, 2000, 327 pp.

Studies in East European Thought -     

Encounters with the Irrational: My Story by André E. Haynal,with an interview by Judit Mészáros,International Psychoanalytic Books,New York, 2017, 173pp.

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis -     

Cultural continuity and cultural hegemony: Italian Catholics in New Jersey and New York, 1880–1940

In this essay I trace the theological continuity evident in Italian Catholic traditions. This line of continuity has its immediate historical origins in the religious forms of Italian rural folk. Those practices were then taken to New Jersey and New York in the closing decades of the 19th century, where they remained in evidence until well into the 20th century. The emotional configuration of the peasant in a traditional society remained as the emotional configuration of the Italian-American worker. The way in which peasants contextualized their theological lives in rural Italy was similar to the way they did so in America, for in the latter, as in the former, class subordination remained a central reality of daily life. Despite that subordination, peasants and workers achieved an air of dignity through the construction of Catholic practices which served to undermine further attempts to implement ideological domination.     

Representations of Sharia in Three Global Cities: Sydney,New York and Geneva 2008–2013

Drawing on methodologies used to analyse the negative portrayals of new religious movements in the press, this article analyses the way Sharia has been reported in key newspapers in Sydney, New York and Geneva from 2008 to 2013. It differentiates between perceptions of Islamic law as practised in these global cities, as well as in other countries, and examines the different levels of perception. The article also investigates portrayals and perceptions of ‘good’ Sharia (as in Islamic banking) as opposed to ‘bad’ Sharia (as in family and criminal law). It discovers that Sydney’s newspapers are more sympathetic than those in New York and Geneva towards Sharia-compliant finances. It then argues that the move towards a more Muslim consumer market in the media is not a homogenous process among Western global cities.