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Jamey Hecht, PhD (Brandeis University, 1994), PsyD (New Center for Psychoanalysis, 2019), LMFT is the author of Dodo Feathers: Poems 1989 - 2019 (IPBooks, 2019); Plato's Symposium: Eros and the Human Predicament (Twayne, 1999); Bloom's How To Write About Homer (Infobase, 2011); a translation, Sophocles' Three Theban Plays (Wordsworth Editions, 2004); and a collection of elegies for President Kennedy called Limousine, Midnight Blue: Fifty Frames from the Zapruder Film (Red Hen Press, 2009). His poetry, fiction, criticism and scholarship have appeared in some 30 publications including the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, American Imago, Arion, Black Warrior Review, ELH, and American Short Fiction. http://www.drjameyhecht.co ...more

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“God is logic's corpse, a wound in reason, grammar's empty skin. (1998)

It is as obvious to my left brain that there is no God, as it is obvious to my right brain that the living God is all there is. (2018)”
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“God is logic's corpse, a wound in reason, grammar's empty skin. (1998)

It is as obvious to my left brain that there is no God, as it is obvious to my right brain that the living God is all there is. (2018)”
Jamey Hecht

“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.”
Victor Frankl

“I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.”
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“Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic”
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Majenta Hello, Jamey! Happy Weekend! Thank you for contacting me. I hope you're well and that you had a great week. Congratulations on your books! Happy reading, writing, and everything else. Have a great new week ahead. Blessings!

Best wishes from Majenta


message 1: by Sava (last edited Aug 25, 2016 01:41PM)

Sava Hecht You are fucking brilliant, Jamey. I'm honored to know you.


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