Movies, Rock & Roll, Freud: Essays on Film and Music

Ken Fuchsman is Emeritus faculty at the University of Connecticut and past President of the International Psychohistorical Association (2016-2020). He is co-editor of two Routledge books, Healing, Rebirth and the Work of Michel Eigen and Psychoanalytic and Historical Perspectives on the Leadership of Donald Trump.His articles on Sigmund Freud have appeared in British and American journals. In the late 1990s, Ken had weekly radio show on the history of rock and roll and another jazz spectrum music.In the 1960s, he designed and taught a class at UConn on America, where the rock music of the period was heavily featured. Dr. Fuchsman has reviewed movies for various publications.

Kenneth A Fuchsman was employed at the University of Connecticut in the Center for Continuing Studies as an Assistant Extension Professor where he teached course to Bachelor of General Studies students on interdisciplinary studies.

Education
He received his Bachelors Degree at the State University of New York at Albany, where he majored in History with a minor in Social Studies; he also received his Masters Degree there (Concentration in American History) . He received a second Masters Degree at Rutgers University in Education and finally a Doctorate of Education also from Rutgers New Brunswick in 1982.

Professional Experience
BAfter receiving his doctorate, he worked at the University of Connecticut at Torrington where he held the position of Continuing Education Counselor III; he also lectured in Education and History. In 2000 he moved to the University’s College of Continuing Studies where he was an Administrator to the Bachelor of General Studies and Non-Degree programs at the University’s six undergraduate campuses, he remained there till 2005 in which he then moved to his current position.

Publications

• Farnen, Russell ; Fuchsman, Kenneth (editors), The Enduring Influence: Religion in American Life. Hartford; The University of Connecticut at Hartford, 1985.
• “The New Guy”, Ibis Review, No. 1, 1994.
• “What Does Freud Mean By The Oedipus Complex”, Free Associations, (2001) Volume 9, Part 1, pp. 82-118.
• “Fathers and Sons: Freud’s Discovery of the Oedipus Complex”, Psychoanalysis and History, 6 (I), 2004, pg 23-36
• “Filial Loyalty and Rebellion in Watergate,” Clio’s Psyche (2005), Volume 12, Number 2, pp. 38-42.
• “A Dialogue on Online Education,” Clio’s Psyche (2005), Volume 12, Number 3, pp. 130-134.
• “Countering Student Objections to Psychohistory,” Clio’s Psyche(2006), Volume 12, Number 4, pp. 207-209.
• “Booth and Fuchsman Continue the Dialogue on Online Education,” Clio’s Psyche (2006), Volume 12, Number 4, pp. 235-236.
• “Freud’s Leadership and Viennese Psychoanalysis,” Clio’s Psyche (2006), Volume 13, Number 1, pp.1, 26-29.
• “Evidence and Concepts in Psychohistory,” Clio’s Psyche (2006), Volume 13, Number 1, pp. 13-14.
• “The Psychohistory of Atrocity in Guerilla and Civil Wars”, Clio’s Psyche (2007), Volume 14, Numbers 1 &2, pp. 1-7.
• “Disciplinary Realities and Interdisciplinary Prospects”, The Global Spiral (2007), Volume 8.
• “War’s Effects Downplayed,” Hartford Courant , February 11, 2008.
• “Traumatized Soldiers,” Journal of Psychohistory (2008), Volume 36, Number 1 Summer 2008, pp. 72-84.
• “Review Revolution in Mind,” Clio’s Psyche (2008), Volume 15, Number 1 June 2008, pp. 41-43.
• “John F. Kennedy: Illness, War and Mortality,” Clio’s Psyche (2008), Volume 15, Number 2, pp. 25-30.
• “Transdisciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity,” Association of Integrative Studies Newsletter (2008), Volume 30, Number 3 p.3-7.
• “Prelude on Love and Hate,” Clio’s Psyche(2009) Volume 15, Number 4, pp. 179-186.
• “The Freudian Psychology of Love,” Clio’s Psyche (2009), Volume 15, Number 4, pp. 186-191.
• “The Primacy of the Mother for Ian Suttie,” Clio’s Psyche (2009), Volume 15, Number 4, pp. 195-199.
• “Barack Obama: Family, Race and Identity,” Psychohistory News (2009), Vol. 27, No. 1, Winter 2009, pp. 5-6.
• “After Crossing the Threshold: War, Stress, and Suicide,” Clio’s Psyche (2009), Vol. 16, Number 1, pp. 84-91.
• “An Open Letter to President Obama (2009),” The Register Citizen, June 24, 2009, p. A6.
• “The Transformations of Barack Obama,” in Paul Elovitz (editor), 2009, Appearance and Reality: Applying Psychology to Culture, Current Events, History, and Society (Franklin Lakes NJ: Elovitz), p. 21.
• “On Love and Hate” in Elovitz (editor), 2009, Appearance and Reality (Franklin Lakes NJ: Elovitz), pp. 84-87.
• “Barack Obama and the Cycle of American Liberalism,” The Journal of Psychohistory (2009), Volume 37, Number 2, Fall 2009,pp. 145-159.
• “The Transformations of Barack Obama,” Clio’s Psyche (2009), Volume 16, Number 3, pp. 293-301.
• “A Psychohistorical Exchange on Barack Obama’s Family Background,” (with Paul Elovitz), (2009), Clio’s Psyche, Volume 16, Number 3, pp.302-314.
• “Rethinking Integration in Interdisciplinary Studies,” 2009, Issues in Integrative Studies, No. 27, pp. 70-85.

One could marvel at the breadth and scope of Fuchsman’s psychoanalytically and sociologically tinged explorations into cultural signifiers of film, music and persons. Не is using psychoanalysis as a cultural investigative dev1ce, through Which he gracefully dissects, deconstructs and reveals the hidden meanings behind familiar cultural icons, such as Sigmund Freud, Paul Simon, Pete Seeger, Jean Paul Sartre, Arthur Miller, and even Steven Spielberg. This is literally а Who’s Who of the world’s modern influencers.

А psychologically oriented academic, Fuchsman has found a patient to analyze, and that patient happens to Ье “modern рор culture.” Fuchsman has the audacity and unique skill to put modem рор culture on the couch and along with his many other insights, you will never listen to а рор song from the 60’s the same way again.

– Jack Schwartz, PsyD, NCPsyA, psychoanalyst/psychotherapist, faculty member of the New Jersey Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis, writer and lecturer.

One could marvel at the breadth and scope of Fuchsman’s psychoanalytically
and sociologically tinged explorations into cultural signifiers of film, music and persons. Не is using psychoanalysis as a cultural investigative dev1ce, through Which he gracefully dissects, deconstructs and reveals the hidden meanings behind familiar cultural icons, such as Sigmund Freud, Paul Simon, Pete Seeger, Jean Paul Sartre, Arthur Miller, and even Steven Spielberg. This is literally а Who’s Who of the world’s modern influencers.
А psychologically oriented academic, Fuchsman has found a patient to analyze, and that patient happens to Ье “modern рор culture.” Fuchsman has the audacity and unique skill to put modem рор culture on the couch and along with his many other insights, you will never listen to а рор song from the 60’s the same way again.

Jack Schwartz, PsyD, NCPsyA, psychoanalyst/psychotherapist, faculty member of the New Jersey Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis, writer and lecturer

What Ken Fuchsman writes оп Freud and his inner struggles is innovative and brilliant. It breaks new ground. Тhis work raises fundamental issues about the founder or psychoanalysis and psychoanalysis itself. ln critically discussing Freud and the role of rather and children in the family, Fuchsman’s writings can lead реор\е to examine themselves and to seriously rethink the dynamics of their own upbringing. Кеn Fuchsman’s papers on Freud are an enormous contribution to the field.

Jacques Szaluta, Ph.D., Emeritus History Professor, Merchant Marine Academy, Licensed Psychoanalyst, and author of Psychohistory: Theory and Practice

— Jacques Szaluta, Ph.D., Emeritus History Professor, Merchant Marine Academy, Licensed Psychoanalyst, and author of Psychohistory: Theory and Practice.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (xi)
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION (1)

MOVIES
CHAPTER 2. LETTING LIGHT INTO DARKNESS: JOHN HUSTON’S 1962 BIO-PICTURE: FREUD (7)
CHAPTER 3. GREATNESS AND PARADOX: SIGMUND FREUD IN THE 1890S AND BEYOND (17)
CHAPTER 4. FREUD AND SARTRE: JEAN-PAUL SARTRE’S THE FREUD SCENARIO (37)
CHAPTER 5. A DANGEROUS METHOD: A FILM REVIEW (55)
CHAPTER 6. ROMAN POLANSKI’S CHINATOWN IN ITS TIME AND OURS (59)
CHAPTER 7. STEVEN SPIELBERG: THE QUEST TO BE A MORAL MALE (71)
CHAPTER 8. SPIELBERG’S THE POST: A REVIEW AND PSYCHOHISTORICAL COMMENTARY (79)
CHAPTER 9. ARTHUR MILLER’S SELF-UNDER-STANDING IN THE CRUCIBLE (87)

MUSIC
CHAPTER 10. FOREVER YOUNG: 1960’S-1970’S COUNTERCULTURE ROCK (93)
CHAPTER 11. THE AGE OF MIRACLES AND WONDERS: PAUL SIMON AND THE CHANGING AMERICAN DREAM (135)
CHAPTER 12. DELIVER ME FROM THE DAYS OF OLD: 1950’S ROCK & ROLL (151)
CHAPTER 13. WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE: A MEMORIAL TO PETE SEEGER (163)
CHAPTER 14. JAZZ, RACE, AND POLITICS, 1955-1975 (169)
CHAPTER 15. ABOUT THE AUTHOR (193)

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