Cultural Essays

The IPA in Culture Committee invites you to share your psychoanalytic reflections on literature, movies, art, music, dance, creativity and all aspects of cultural life in the form of a brief essay. If you wish to share a brief essay on your psychoanalytic thoughts about culture with the IPA community, please send your text to Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau: [email protected].

Please note the views in these essays are not selected or evaluated by the culture committee but express only the opinions of their authors. The essays can be translated by DeepL .

2024
March

Cristina Maria Cortezzi
Akira Kurosawa Dreams (the wedding-the fox) READ

2022

December

Energy and then Drives, and then Energy; A Broad and Inclusive Insight READ

September

A Credible/Incredible Paradigm READ

April

Überlegungen zu den psychologischen und psychohistorischen Hintergründen von Kriegen READ

The Evolution of the Human Psyche up to Adult Faith and Beyond READ

2021

August

The Science of Psychoanalysis and On the Unconscious State READ

A Synthesis of Sorts and the Developmental Advantage READ

Uma nova biografia de Jacques Derrida READ

June

Marc Babonneau
« MICHEL_ANGE » d’Andreï KONCHALOVSKY Pulsion; Sublimation ; Débordement  READ

May

Guillermo Julio Montero and Alicia Mirta Ciancio
(Living) Maturescence READ

Saro Palmeri
The Unconscious Motivation behind Dante Alighieri’s Divina Commedia READ

Marc Babonneau
Cocteau* La Voix Humaine * Almodovar READ  

March

Sergio Telles Sobre dois ensaios de Peter Handke READ  


Saro Palmeri
An Encounter in the Elysian Fields: Darwin, Freud and Einstein READ  

2020

December

Saro Palmeri
You Don’t Say On the Abstract Nature of Psychological Life and on Trust READ 

October

Saro Palmeri
Psychological Abstractions and the Infantile Faith READ

August

Saro Palmeri
From Primary Narcissism to Faith, Mysticism and Spirituality READ

July

Área Migraciones APdeBA 
Félix en el exilio Ningún ser humano es ilegal  READ

Barbara Young 
A Visitor from Boley, Oklahoma READ   
 

Frances Williams and Graeme Williams
Never Again READ

June

Sérgio Telles
Sobre Martin Eden, de Jack London READ  

Harold P. Blum
Leonardo da Vinci and His Mona Lisa Memorial READ  


Sérgio Telles
Sebald e as lembranças de guerra READ  

May

Keren Kaplan
‘A Psychoanalytic Observation of The Taming of the Shrew by W. Shakespeare READ  


Smita Rajput Kamble
‘Lambent’ insights on a sunny April day amidst a pandemic, 2020 READ  


Sérgio Telles
Proust e sua mãe READ  

April

Gemma Zontini
La Scuola di Londra a Roma READ  

Steven H. Knoblauch, Ph.D.
THE RHYTHMS OF EMBODIED REGISTRATIONS READ  

Keren Kaplan
To Dream, to Fantasize, to Live – A Psychological Observation of the Glass Menagerie Play READ  

Juliana Simczak Treuherz
EU, CAÇADOR DE MIM READ  

Marc Babonneau
Melancholia de Lars Von Trier (2011) READ  

Laurence Aubry
Sigmund Freud, a Jew without God: as an echo of confinement READ  

Tiago Mussi
Ficções no Divã: na fronteira entre a psicanálise e a literatura READ  

Sérgio Telles
Kafka, Derrida e a lei READ  

Shreya Varma
Perversions in (Indian) Psyche and Cinema READ  

Christel Böhme-Bloem, Horst Kämpfer, Volker Trempler, Martin Weimer
Psychoanalyse und Theater - Nach(t)gedanken - in Kiel READ  

March

Chao-Ying Wang
Hotel by the River, a commentary READ  

Barbara Young
I Was Never Going to be a Photographer READ  

Hans-Jürgen Wirth
Corona und die »Fähigkeit zur Besorgnis« READ  

Giuliano Pisani
Una nuova lettura della Cappella degli Scrovegni di Giotto READ  

Marc Babonneau
« Gaspard de la Nuit» READ  

Sérgio Telles
Somos todos egípcios READ  

Ludwig Janus
Der Traditionsbruch in der Geschichte der psychoanalytischen Kulturpsychologie durch das Ausscheiden von Otto Rank READ  

Bernard Touati
Tatoo Age READ  

February

Anne Denist
Un moment de style READ  

Jürgen Hardt
Das Unbehagen in der postmodernen Kultur READ  

Roberto Gómez Campanero
Algunas Reflexiones Sobre la Fantasía en los Toreros READ  

Alberto Chab
La importancia psicológica del Poder y el Dinero READ  

Mamycheva Diana
J. Tornatore "Simple formality": what's your name? READ  

Silvana Hernández Romillo
Entradas para el teatro Comentario sobre la obra teatral “Los raros” de Dino Armas (2004, Uruguay) READ  

Luis del Pozo
El Acto Cultural Simbólico versus el Acto Cultural Sublimatorio READ  

Jacqueline Girard-Frésard
Sexual Overflow, Here and There READ  

Marc Babonneau
Du Masochisme au service de la Vie. READ  

Sonia Abadi
Habitar el tercer espacio, una experiencia transformadora READ  

Annemarie Andina-Kernen
Vom Zauber der Worte READ  

Maurice Apprey
Chiasmatic Crossings between Freud’s Clinical Projects and Social Concerns: Response to Howard L. Kaye’s   Freud as a Social and Cultural Theorist: On Human Nature and the Civilizing Process at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia on November 8th, 2019.  READ  

Juan Augosto Laplacette
El Dibujar de las Infancias. Primeros Trazos de Subjetividad. READ
 
Ilany Kogan
Narcissistic Fantasies in Film and Fiction- Masters of the Universe READ  

Clarissa Lasky
Ella READ  

Richard M. Waugaman 
Freud was Correct—The Earl of Oxford Wrote Shakespeare's Works! READ
 
Juan C. Capo
Un narrador insoslayable: Henry James READ  

Giuliana Canonica Hemmele
Ici et ailleurs. Y a-t-il une créativité psychanalytique face au monde spirituel?  READ
 
Karla Zárate
Klein: lo oral sádico en un thriller  READ  

Karla Zárate
La melancolía en Virginia Woolf a partir de Freud  READ  

Felix Gimenez Noble
Lo Ominoso en la Cultura  READ  

Max Belkin
Mad Men: Don Draper on the Couch READ  

Joseph S. Reynoso
On being a sports fan READ  

Haydeé Celia Kohan Éngelberg
La Literatura y el Psicoanálisis Freud _ Proust  READ  

Kalliope Eberhardt-Rittmann
Zur Psychoanalyse des Gartens READ  

Laura Palacios
Psicoanalistas: ¿Por qué es fascinante la Física? (Supernovas, Agujeros Negros… LA NADA ESTABA ADENTRO) READ  

Jane Hall
Tango, Jazz, and Psychoanalysis READ  

Sérgio Telles
Um “Totem e Tabu” para a contemporaneidade?  READ  

Marina Christoforidou
Westworld and Inner World.  READ  

Barbara Stimmel
Life, Death, and In-Between  READ