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Vienna Minna Bernays, an overeducated lady's companion with a sharp wit, is abruptly fired, yet again. On the street and out of options, she turns to her sister, Martha, for help. Martha has her own problems with six young children and an absent, disinterested husband -- Sigmund Freud, a struggling professor. Curious, engaging, and passionate Minna is fascinated by Freud's work, and they soon embark on what is at first simply an intellectual courtship...
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In the summer of 1909, Sigmund Freud arrived by steamship in New York Harbor for a short visit to America. Though he would live another thirty years, he would never return to this country. Little is known about the week he spent in Manhattan, and Freud's biographers have long speculated as to why, in his later years, he referred to Americans as "savages" and "criminals."
In The Interpretation of Murder, Jed Rubenfeld weaves the facts of Freud's visit...
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The goal of the course is to weave together two paths -- the seven-fold nature of the self as articulated by Annie Besant and the psychoanalytical view of the self as seen in Freud and Jung to form a balanced view of esoteric psychology that explores our depths as well as our heights.
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The lectures in Part 6 bring the progress of philosophy into the present day, beginning with the work of Nietzsche and the American pragmatists William James and John Dewey. This section explains the work and consequence of modern linguistic and logical analysis in lectures on Ayer and Wittgenstein. Also discussed is the structuralism of Claude Levi-Strauss and the attempts to develop rational foundations for values in the Frankfurt School. Finally,...