ART & Thoughts
Sigmund Freud
Jacques-Alain Miller: On Love
We Love the One Who Responds to Our Question: “Who Am I?” Hanna Waar – Does psychoanalysis teach us something about love? Jacques-Alain Miller – A great deal, because it’s an experience whose mainspring is love. It’s a question of that automatic and more often than not unconscious love that the analysand brings to the analyst, and … Continue reading
Les vases communicants – André Breton / Diego Rivera
“…il y a là une porte entr-ouverte,au delà de laquelle il n’ya plus qu’un pas à faire pour, au sortir de la maison vacilante des poètes, se retrouver de plain-pied dans la vie” (Les Vases communicants, p.11) (…there is a door,half-opened, on the other side of which just one step has to be taken, in leaving the … Continue reading
Life with Gustav Mahler
Life with Gustav Mahler (1901 – 1911) On 7 November 1901, at the house of her friend Berta Zuckerkandl, Alma met celebrated conductor Gustav Mahler who, as Director of the Vienna Court Opera, held one of the most powerful positions in the world of music. Alma Schindler, 1900 Gustav Mahler en route to the Vienna … Continue reading
