From Aeschylus' Dream to Baudelaire's Reverie: Orestes Evoked

Israeli-Arab Relations; from Dream to Reality

Abstract:This study intends to review Israel's efforts to increase political and economic relations with Arab countries. It is clear that most Arab countries did not have any ties with Israel since the 1980s, and only two Egyptian states had established political relations with Israel since the 1973 war. But over the past few years, and especially after the start of the third millennium, ...

Metatheatre in Aeschylus’ Oresteia

Lionel Abel coined the word ‘metatheatre’ in his 1963 book, Metatheatre: A New View of Dramatic Form, claiming he had discovered a new type of theatre, and cited Shakespeare’s Hamlet as the first metatheatrical play. Over the intervening decades, various scholars have pushed the incidence of the earliest metatheatrical play back beyond Hamlet. Richard Hornby, in his 1986 book, Drama, Metadrama,...

Sophrosyne in Aeschylus

Reverie and interpretation.

The analyst's reverie experience constitutes an indispensable avenue to the understanding and interpretation of the transference-countertransference and yet is perhaps the dimension of the analyst's experience that feels least worthy of scrutiny. Reverie takes the most mundane, personal, and private of shapes, often involving the minutiae of everyday life. Although the analyst's reveries are pe...

Noninvasive prenatal diagnosis: from dream to reality.

I became interested in the area of prenatal diagnosis when I was a medical student at Oxford. I had been following the impressive advances occurring in the prenatal diagnosis of the hemoglobinopathies through the pioneering work of Prof. Yuet Wai Kan at the University of California San Francisco (1 ) and Prof. David Weatherall at Oxford (2 ). I also had the good fortune of getting firsthand exp...