Podcast: The Helix Center

Saturday, May 7, 2016
2:30 - 4:30 pm

Fear: Wherefore, Whence?

Someone is shouting! Ho! Do you hear? Am I howling in vain? For if one is frightened, everything makes a noise!

 – Sophocles, Acrisius [fragment]

…the sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues.

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Saturday, May 7, 2016
2:30 - 4:30 pm

Fear: Wherefore, Whence?

Someone is shouting! Ho! Do you hear? Am I howling in vain? For if one is frightened, everything makes a noise!

 – Sophocles, Acrisius [fragment]

…the sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues.

… read more »
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Saturday, March 26, 2016
2:30-4:30 pm

Understanding Genius II: Women

Name five female geniuses off the top of your head. If you find yourself stumbling after Madame Curie, you are hardly alone. Why should this be when there is no shortage of brilliant, creative women, who are as numerous in history as they are today?… read more »

Saturday, March 26, 2016
2:30-4:30 pm

Understanding Genius II: Women

Name five female geniuses off the top of your head. If you find yourself stumbling after Madame Curie, you are hardly alone. Why should this be when there is no shortage of brilliant, creative women, who are as numerous in history as they are today?… read more »

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Saturday, February 20, 2016
2:30-4:30 p.m.

Genes, Computers, and Medicine

Developments in computational neuroscience, molecular biology, and genomics have opened up new ways of looking at disease. In a relatively short time span, these advances may lead to significant innovations in the understanding of various diseases, as well as in therapeutics designed to treat them.… read more »

Saturday, February 20, 2016
2:30-4:30 p.m.

Genes, Computers, and Medicine

Developments in computational neuroscience, molecular biology, and genomics have opened up new ways of looking at disease. In a relatively short time span, these advances may lead to significant innovations in the understanding of various diseases, as well as in therapeutics designed to treat them.… read more »

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Saturday, March 12, 2016
2:30 - 4:30 pm

The Meditative State

What is meditation? As difficult as it may be to define this state of mind, its beneficial effects on mental and physical health are incontrovertible. What are the respective roles of conscious and unconscious processes in this voluntarily invoked mental state?
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Saturday, March 12, 2016
2:30 - 4:30 pm

The Meditative State

What is meditation? As difficult as it may be to define this state of mind, its beneficial effects on mental and physical health are incontrovertible. What are the respective roles of conscious and unconscious processes in this voluntarily invoked mental state?
… read more »
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A Colloquium of

The Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation

and

L’ Association Des Amis de Passages (ADAPes) Comité Freud

December 5th and 6th, 2015

at the Helix Center

Participants:

Marilia Aisenstein

Psychoanalyst; Former President, Société Psychanalyste de Paris

(Paris Psychoanalytic Society)

Ian Buckingham

Psychoanalyst; President, New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute

Vincent Crapanzano

Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Comparative Literature,

Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Philippe Douste-Blazy

United Nations Under-Secretary-General

Paul Fry

Professor Emeritus of English and Literature, Yale University

Lynn Gamwell

Writer, Professor of Humanities, School of Visual Arts, New York

Claude Landman

Psychoanalyst; Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes en Psychopathologies (EPhEP)

(Practical School of Higher Studies in Psychopathologies)

Patrick Landman

Psychoanalyst; Professor, Université de Paris VII (Paris Diderot University)

Emile H.… read more »

December 5 & 6, 2015

A Freudian Perspective on What Ails the World Today

A Colloquium of

The Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation

and

L’ Association Des Amis de Passages (ADAPes) Comité Freud

December 5th and 6th, 2015

at the Helix Center

Participants:

Marilia Aisenstein

Psychoanalyst; Former President, Société Psychanalyste de Paris

(Paris Psychoanalytic Society)

Ian Buckingham

Psychoanalyst; President, New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute

Vincent Crapanzano

Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Comparative Literature,

Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Philippe Douste-Blazy

United Nations Under-Secretary-General

Paul Fry

Professor Emeritus of English and Literature, Yale University

Lynn Gamwell

Writer, Professor of Humanities, School of Visual Arts, New York

Claude Landman

Psychoanalyst; Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes en Psychopathologies (EPhEP)

(Practical School of Higher Studies in Psychopathologies)

Patrick Landman

Psychoanalyst; Professor, Université de Paris VII (Paris Diderot University)

Emile H.… read more »

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Saturday, October 24, 2015
2:30-4:30 pm

The Realm of Mystery

Donald Rumsfeld famously said, “There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the  ones we don’t know we don’t know.”… read more »

Saturday, October 24, 2015
2:30-4:30 pm

The Realm of Mystery

Donald Rumsfeld famously said, “There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the  ones we don’t know we don’t know.”… read more »

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