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An excerpt from Robert Boyers, The Fate of Ideas: Seductions, Betrayals, Appraisals

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Read Howard Steele’s opening remarks for the dedication ceremony of the Safran Reading Room @NSSRNews on December 5th, 2018: https://t.co/kPf2q3o8iE

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"The good old days, when men were men and women were women, when sex was supposed to be within marriage, [...] from my point of view, forgetting this past, or at least keeping it in the past, is most desirable." https://t.co/6okDMZ7vwl

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What we can learn about a straight President by looking at the gay men in his orbit: https://t.co/f8TPZRiAEQ

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Read Howard Steele’s opening remarks for the dedication ceremony of the Safran Reading Room on December 5th, 2018: …

The Dedication of the Safran Reading Room

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The follow post is Howard Steele’s opening remarks for the dedication ceremony of the Safran Reading Room on December 5th, 2018. Click here to read Ali Shames-Dawson comments on the dedication. Good evening, everyone, my name is Howard Steele. I am a professor here and the chair for the clinical

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"The good old days, when men were men and women were women, when sex was supposed to be within marriage, which was understood as being only between men and women: from my point of view, forgetting this past, or at least keeping it in the past, and not in the present and future, is most desirable." …

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“We should remember with caution, even as we must proceed boldly.” This is the way I have already tried to succinctly summarize my approach to “gray memory” earlier this year. I know that memory holds great promise, as Milan Kundera once put it: “The struggle of man against power is the st…

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President John F. Kennedy has become infamous for his vivid, and some might say almost compulsive, heterosexual affairs. But straight men can have a gay side, and JFK’s life was filled with prominent gay men, friendships which open the door to other histories. At least one of these intimates, Kirk…

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What is Psychoanalysis?

An excerpt from Robert Boyers, The Fate of Ideas: Seductions, Betrayals, Appraisals