Sargent and Proust: An Elusive Mouvance

Reading fiction and the psychoanalytic experience: Proust on reading and on reading Proust.

Reading can at times engage one emotionally and entail inner psychological experiences in ways akin to those in clinical psychoanalysis. In that light, after a general introduction regarding the import of reading, attention is turned to Proust, Freud's literary complement, as an exemplary instance to illustrate those similarities. Ideas of Proust on reading are followed by thoughts on reading P...

Studying an elusive cuckoo.

In a single nest, perched on a branch overhanging a marshy river in Panama, four birds jostle for space. The birds all belong to a species of cuckoo called the Greater Ani, and each one has offspring in the communal nest. The birds take turns warming the heap of eggs and looking out for predators, teaming together to face the challenges of rearing young. A dozen feet away, researchers peer out ...

Cohabitation : An Elusive Concept

Rates of out-of-wedlock births in the US have increased over the past three decades and rates of cohabitation among unwed parents have risen. Consequently, unwed parenthood is decreasingly synonymous with single parenthood. As we focus more attention on unwed parents, their living arrangements, and relationships, it is becoming clear that cohabitation is an ambiguous concept that is difficult t...

An elusive phaeochromocytoma.

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Kant, Proust, and the Appeal of Beauty