Archives 1996 - 2003: Programs sponsored by the Academy for the Study of the Psychoanalytic Arts since 1996

The mission of the Academy includes the presentation of its ideas to the academic, professional and lay communities.

The Academy’s “library without walls” self-directed program of study includes the public presentation, over the past seven years, of programs which encourage the rethinking of psychoanalysis as a nonmedical, creative, intellectual discipline dedicated to the understanding of the psyche.

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2004

Dedicated to the spirit of "free association(s)" as a constitutional right, characterized by skeptical philosophical inquiry, and defining psychoanalysis as "other than" health care, the Academy sponsors many programs exploring the "stuff of life" as portrayed through the arts, humanities and anthropic studies as opposed to the nomenclature of medicine and disease.

Whether the form is film, theater, semiotics, poetry, painting, philosophy, archeology or literature, the focus is on the ways people "dream with their eyes open" living their everyday lives in their own personal idiosyncratic ways and expressively representing such experiences.