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Big Ben Clock Tower to be Renamed Elizabeth Tower
By Mohammed Abbas and Alessandra Prentice LONDON | Tue Jun 26, 2012 2:20pm EDT http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/26/uk-britain-bigben-queen-idUKBRE85P0O220120626 LONDON (Reuters) – It’s one of the most famous names in the world, up there with the Eiffel Tower and Statue of Liberty – but now London’s Big Ben clock tower is to be renamed Elizabeth Tower to mark the queen’s 60th year on the British throne. The announcement on Tuesday followed four days of celebrations earlier this month to mark 86-year-old Queen’s Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee. The landmark, part of Britain’s Houses of Parliament, is officially called the Clock Tower but is commonly known as Big Ben, the name of the giant bell in the…
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Fifteen Years Since Hong Kong’s Transfer to China
July 1, 2012 will mark the 15th anniversary of Hong Kong’s being handed over to China. Hong Kong, now called a Special Administrative Region (SAR), that belonged to Britian from (1950s – 1997), is in a unique relationship to China in that it is semiautonomous. It has tasted freedom and has not forgotten the Chinese Government’s brutal crackdown of the Tiananmen Square protests on June 4 of 1989. In fact, Hong Kong is the only place in China allowed to hold peaceful assemblies to honor the students and citizens that were killed in the supression of the Tiananmen Square protests. In the Series: Brookings Northeast Asia Commentary |Number 25 of 25 we find a curent…
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The Freud Jung Letters
April 21, 1974 By LIONEL TRILLING http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/21/reviews/jung-freud.html THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN SIGMUND FREUD AND C.G. JUNG Edited by William McGuire. Translated by Ralph Manheim and R.F.C. Hull. The relationship between Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung had its bright beginning in 1906 and came to its embittered end in 1913. Its disastrous course was charted by the many letters the two men wrote each other. Of these a few have been lost but there are 360 extant, of which 164 are from Freud, 196 from Jung. In 1970 the Freud and Jung families made the enlightened decision that this correspondence was to be edited as a unit, and it is now…
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Carl Jung
Carl Jung Biography Motto: “Thank God I am Jung and not Jungian” (C.G. Jung) Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) had a significant contribution to the psychoanalytical movement and is generally considered as the prototype of the dissident through the impact of his scission and the amplification of the movement he created in his turn (analytical psychology). Jung was the son of a Swiss reverend. He completed his medical studies, specialized in psychiatry and joined the staff of Burgholzli, the renowned psychiatric hospital in Zurich, run at that time by the famous Dr. Eugen Bleuler. In 1902-1903 he attended a traineeship in Paris with Pierre Janet, and then returned to Zurich and…
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Why Dreams Are Forgotten After Waking
CHAPTER 1, Section D of Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams That a dream fades away in the morning is proverbial. It is, indeed, possible to recall it. For we know the dream, of course, only by recalling it after waking; but we very often believe that we remember it incompletely, that during the night there was more of it than we remember. We may observe how the memory of a dream which in the morning was still vivid fades in the course of the day, leaving only a few trifling remnants. We are often aware that we have been dreaming, but we do not know of what we have dreamed; and…