John Steinberg, All the Tsars Men

All the queen's men

Humans have an ancient and intimate relationship with honey bees--from the development of beekeeping in prehistoric times up to the recent sequencing of the honey bee genome. Yet, the intimacies of bee sexuality remained obscure and contentious until relatively recently. Their stepwise unravelling is a tale of advances and misconception that, in part, may have stemmed from an all too humanised ...

The Steinberg Representation

Introduction. Group representations occupy a sort of middle ground between abstract groups and transformation groups, i.e., groups acting in concrete ways as permutations of sets, homeomorphisms of topological spaces, diffeomorphisms of manifolds, etc. The requirement that the elements of a group act as linear operators on a vector space limits somewhat the complexity of the action without sacr...

The Steinberg Wiring Problem

All the fun of the fair John and Ben Gribbin

"All the king's horses and all the king's men. . .".

This essay discusses an overlooked ingredient in the psychotherapy of psychosis which is termed the "curative audience." Central to the equation of psychological selfhood is the evocation of a sense of self by experiences that the patient has with objects in the environment. This essay calls attention to an essential function of this environment, namely, that it provides an audience that makes ...