A lesson of Doctor Charcot at the Salpetriere

“Une Leçon du Docteur Charcot à la Salpêtrière” is the title of a painting by Pierre Aristide André Brouillet (1857-1914).

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Balthus (Balthazar Klossowski) revisited

Parenthesis: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has a Balthus Exhibition “Cats and Girls“(September 25, 2013–January 12, 2014). 

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In my beginning is my end (T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets, East Coker, I)

5th century BC 6th century AD 16th century 16th – 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century and beyond

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Freud on the Acropolis

On his only visit to Greece, in 1904, Sigmund Freud experienced brief but unsettling feelings of alienation as he stood

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