New York Psychoanalytical Society and Institute
The Philoctetes Center regrets to announce that due to insurmountable budget shortfalls, we are closing our space and discontinuing our programs. We would like to thank all of our devoted followers, who have helped to make each Philoctetes event lively, informative, and memorable. We would also like to thank the great number of you who made contributions over the past two and a half years that helped to sustain us after a crippling loss of funding in December of 2008. Your belief in and enthusiasm for our unique mission made our continued existence possible. In addition, we are indebted to the many scientists, scholars, and artists who participated in our events over the years, and whose intellectual and creative contributions were so vital to our programs. The decision to close the Center has been a difficult one. In the last year, our events have been more popular than ever, attracting audiences of growing size and diversity. We deeply regret that we will not be able to continue our mission of stimulating this community of passionate, curious minds.
The Philoctetes website will remain as an archive for our body of work. You may also watch videos of all of our events on our
YouTube channel. We hope that these resources will continue to offer insights into multidisciplinary thinking and stimulate discussion about the nature of creativity.
Philoctetes Video Archive...
Participants: Michael Braziller, Monica de la Torre, Cate Marvin, Brenda Shaughnessy
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Videos of all Philoctetes programs are archived on our Past Programs page.
Philoctetes Video Archive...
Participants: Mary Ann Doane, Katherine Frank, Dany Nobus (moderator), Saul Robbins, Sarah Stanbury
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Videos of all Philoctetes programs are archived on our Past Programs page.
Philoctetes Video Archive...
Participants: Christian de Duve, James P. Ferris, Colin McGinn, Edward Nersessian (moderator), Mark Norell, Robert Pollack
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Videos of all Philoctetes programs are archived on our Past Programs page.
Philoctetes Video Archive...
Participants: Robert Logan (moderator), Jonathan Rosen, Bambi Schieffelin, Lance Strate
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Videos of all Philoctetes programs are archived on our Past Programs page.
Philoctetes Video Archive...
Participants: Alice Flaherty, Alan Jacobs, Jonathan Lethem, Francis Levy, Lois Oppenheim (moderator), Pedro Reyes
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Videos of all Philoctetes programs are archived on our Past Programs page.
Portraiture: Old Masters and New
Art Exhibition
February 26 - May 14, 2011
Works by: Jenny Dubnau, Phyllis Herfield, Matthew Miller, Philip Pearlstein, David Pettibone
The Story of Philoctetes
On the way to Troy, Philoctetes is bitten by a serpent. The pain is so extreme and the wound so foul smelling that Philoctetes is exiled to the island of Lemnos... More
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