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Podcast: New Books in Performing Arts
Episode: Adam Blum et al., "Here I'm Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Description: Today we have a  group session (read: an hour and a half) with the authors Adam Blum, Peter Goldberg, and Michal Levin discussing their new book Here Iâm Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis (Columbia University Press, 2023). Acknowledging that âWeâre not the first to think about music in the clinical situationâ the authors focused on the analytic project âas a kind of music in its own right.â With an interest in sensory, non-representational experiences. âWe settled on music as a primordial operating system that all human beings are brought into.âWe begin the interview with each author sharing...