In 1926 … the doctors of the New York Psychoanalytic Society declared their independence from their European forebears by decreeing that only physicians could practice psychoanalysis. Back in Vienna, Freud was livid. Medical education was exactly the wrong preparation for a psychoanalyst, he wrote, as it abandoned study of “the history of civilization and sociology” for anatomy and biology, culture for science. A psychoanalyst trained this way was bound to have the wrong idea about psychic suffering: that it was an illness to be isolated and cured by the doctor. This was a form of piety that Freud could not tolerate. “As long as I live,” he wrote, “I shall balk at having psychoanalysis swallowed by medicine.”
And yeah, it really bums me out to watch Claudia just snort up half those Pixie Stixs when she is so blatantly trying to get attention to her sugar problem, but every time we try to talk to her about it she says she needs it to focus on her art and that her super-strict Asian parents are coming down on her ass again so what’s the point, really? This whole club is really getting to be a drag but whatever, I started the project and I just know that bitch Marci is waiting for me to like, drop the ball on this whole thing so she can pick up all the money and maybe Mary-Anne’s boyfriend Logan as a nice “fuck you too” perk.
New York startup Profitably recently closed a $300,000 round of funding with a group of New York investors. The company offers an online software application that analyzes data from Quickbooks, a small business accounting package sold by Intuit.
Non-spoiling thoughts: The movie pitch version is that Inception is Memento meets The Matrix meets Synecdoche, New York. It’s terrifically ambitious for a summer action blockbuster, and has more than a few inventive tricks up its sleeve. At the same time, there are some extremely frustrating gaps in story and motivation, and you have to look at Leonardo DiCaprio’s furrowed brow a lot. With all of its flaws, I’d recommend it to pretty much anybody.
Many, many spoilers below, after the rotating-gravity fistfight.
We’ll be announcing our speakers very soon, but they’re a pretty solid bunch, as good as last month’s. If you are a programmer who’s thinking about making the move to being a founding member of a startup, or if you’re just interested in hanging out and talking about some really high-quality startup ideas, you need to be here.
Date: Thursday July 22, 2010
Time: 6:30- 8:30pm
Location: AOL, 770 Broadway (entrance on 9th St.), 6th Floor
