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Nov 29, 2024 | 
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Sarah Krasnostein
The writer Janet Malcolm once observed that since the advent of psychoanalysis, analysts have been “wrestling with (and, in some cases, escaping from) its radical unlikeness to any other human relationship, its purposeful renunciation of the niceties and decencies of ordinary human intercourse, its awesome abnormality, contradictoriness, and strain”.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Sarah Krasnostein
First there was Chaos, Hesiod wrote in Theogony, his thousand-line poem recounting the birth of the gods and the material universe they personified. The first of the primordial gods, Chaos was the mother of Darkness and Night. Hesiod portrayed her as the emptiness from which all things arose. Later Ovid told it differently, describing Chaos as a densely packed jumble of everything yet to come.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Sarah Krasnostein
“The product of the human brain has escaped the control of human hands. This is the comedy of science,” commented Czech writer Karel Čapek about his play R.U.R. (for “Rossum’s Universal Robots”), which premiered in 1921 to audiences still reeling from World War I’s mechanised butchery. Čapek’s play introduced the word “robot”, derived from the Czech word for forced labour, but not the idea of a hubristic scientist destroyed by his own invention.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Sarah Krasnostein
“What I love about cooking,” Nora Ephron wrote in Heartburn, the deliciously acerbic autofiction novel that launched her career, “is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick! ... It’s a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure…”In Heartburn, cooking is an act of love, joy, mourning, revenge, autonomy and connection. It’s a short trip from her kitchen to the one at the centre of The Bear.
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May 17, 2024 | 
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Sarah Krasnostein
The life of the real estate heir and murderer Robert Durst – sometimes known as Ralph Durst, Emilio Vegnoni, Everette Ward, James S. Fleischman, James Klosty, Jim Turs, Johnnie Smith, Dorothy Ciner or Robert Dean Jezowski – was so bizarre it would fail as fiction. Unlike life, fiction requires some practical realism. Durst was rarely subject to such constraints, but then he unwisely contacted filmmaker Andrew Jarecki.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Sarah Krasnostein |Marian Wilkinson |Lucia Osborne-Crowley
A visit to a life-drawing class at Arts Project Australia, where artists living with an intellectual disability are developing professional careers The heater pushes a warm breeze over Arts Project Australia’s Northcote studio in Melbourne’s north, as Hannelore, humming, removes her sarong, drapes it over a vinyl-topped bar chair and climbs up onto the padded seat. Her back towards the room, the model threads a leg under herself and cradles the curve of her foot in her opposite hand.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
theage.com.au | Sarah Krasnostein
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Inside the Sydney Opera House on a recent afternoon, it was 1993 and Ruth Bader Ginsburg was waiting for a phone call. That call, confirming her nomination to the US Supreme Court, changed her life and the lives of many.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Sarah Krasnostein
Not so strange, this affinity. Ginsburg and Mitchell both lost mothers after periods of prolonged illness before they turned 20. Both were young mothers of two, working in merciless professions. Both have a beloved Marty (Mitchell is married to cinematographer Martin McGrath). Both survived cancer. And both became energised by work that would exhaust others.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Sarah Krasnostein
A key component of Carl Jung’s depth psychology is the idea that beneath each conscious mind exists a personal unconscious containing suppressed or forgotten individual experiences. Beneath these, he hypothesised, was an obscure knowledge “which does not derive from personal experience” but was primordial, inborn and universal. He called this posited substrate of the human psyche the collective unconscious and referred to its contents as archetypes.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Sarah Krasnostein
I. In the Coen-verse – that world of movies made by brothers Ethan and Joel Coen, often with their wives, editor Tricia Cooke and actor Frances McDormand respectively, and an extended family of collaborators – the story usually starts with a frame and that frame is often a voice. BLACKWe hear an interviewer tell Ethan Coen, 66, and Cooke, 58, she discovered the movies they made with Joel as an out-of-place teenager in the mid-1990s, which then became part of her DNA.
