Anka Muhlstein

Balzac at Table

A luminous essay of “literary gastronomy” for food lovers as well as for anyone interested in the nineteenth-century novel

Hélène Romano

Bad Mothers Motherhood for Better or Worse

Confronting the disturbing issue of abuse by mothers can help us to better comprehend and heal the wounds associated with the mother-child relationship

Laurent Cohen-Tanugi

Backlash The West in the Post-Cold War Period

Patrick Gepner

Backaches

Bill Clinton

Back to Work Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy

“There is simply no evidence that we can succeed in the twenty-first century with an antigovernment strategy,” based on “a philosophy grounded in ‘you’re on your own’ rather than ‘we’re all in this together.’ ” Bill Clinton

Pascal Salin

Back to Capitalism

Serge Lebovici

The Baby, the Psychoanalyst and the Metaphor Presented by Bernard Golse

This exceptional document, the last work of Serge Lebovici, traces the history of metaphor as a concept for philosophers, linguists,and psychoanalysts. It particularly shows why this notion constitutes the keystone of psychic ontogenesis and of all therapeutic activity. A psychoanalyst, and professor of child and adolescent psychology, Serge Lebovici was the president of the International Psychoanalytical Society.

Ann Premack, David Premack

The Baby, the Ape and Man

The issue of the differences and similarities between humans and their cousins the chimpanzees governs the definition of human identity. How can this difference be explained? By studying the learning process of chimpanzees and comparing it to that of children, Ann and David Premack were gradually able to discover a series of differences, none of which were radical but when put together showed a yawning gap between the two species. The results they obtained enabled them to reconstruct little by little the sum of the differences that make up human identity. Ann and David Premack are specialists in the study of primates.