Brenda Webster's Blog

• Through a lens darkly

  July 28, 2010

  • My earliest memories are filtered through my mother's psychoanalytic lens. She liked to recall her favorite incidents from my childhood and delightedly repeat them to me over the years. My own first memory, when I am five years old, is of her standing by the window in a pale peach silk kimono, covered with exotic birds. Her stomach is flat. She is thin and beautiful again."If grandma loves ...
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• Freud on Trial

  February 3, 2010

  • Psychoanalysis is in many ways like a religion. People trace their lineage as it were from the Prophet Freud and from his early disciples. Sitting on stage in front of an audience of 130 people at the Austrian Cultural Forum, I wondered what the analystsin the audience would say about what could be perceived as my deviance.  I tried not to think about it as I sketched out the two triangles in my ...
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• Leonard Lopate Show

  January 7, 2010

  • I just got asked to be on the Leonard Lopate show and wanted to share. Jan. 14th at 1:00 Eastern timeI've long been a fan of his. Love his brisk intelligent questioning.And after feeling grim about the world and the fate of books, am cheered.So off to New York on Saturday and after the Lopate show, I'll be on a panel at The Austrian Cultural Forum on Freud as a Fictional Character, 6:30-8:00. ...
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