Book Launch–The Flower from a Poisoned Seed
Location
Website
https://phillyethics.org/public-transit-parking/Book Launch–The Flower from a Poisoned Seed
Date
- Apr 24, 2024
- Expired!
Time
- 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Cost
- free
Pterodactyl Press and Author Jonathan David Announce a Book Launch Event for the Book, The Flower from a Poisoned Seed, to Be Held at The Ethical Society on April 24 at 6:30 p.m.
Jonathan David and the new imprint Pterodactyl Press are excited to announce that this book launch for The Flower from a Poisoned Seed: A Memoir of Childhood Trauma, Sexual Masochism, and Eventually, a Good Measure of Wellbeing at The Ethical Society on Rittenhouse Square in Center City Philadelphia. It will be held April 24 at 6:30 p.m., in the main auditorium on the building’s first floor. Admission is free. The event will begin with a short talk by the author about why he decided to write the book and why it is important. He will follow with a short reading from the book, and then Dr. Elio Frattaroli, psychoanalyst and author of Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain: Why Medication Isn’t Enough. Dr. Frattaroli is a faculty member of the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, and he will add a professional’s perspective.
The term “trauma” is heard or read everywhere nowadays, but the fact that a child can unconsciously hide their trauma from early in life in their latent libido, and it may lay hidden there for years so that the child can continue to live somewhat successfully with abusive elders, is less known. Adults can react to early trauma by abusing alcohol or drugs, or by fighting, experiencing chronic pain or one form or another of mental illness. Yet our society has not yet fully reckoned with the fact that a traumatized child may later turn to voluntary, consensual sexual violence that we today call simply “kink,” and fetishism. This is not to say that all kink is pathological. But for some, it can be. This book lays bare this process and describes—in elegiac prose—how, with positive, long term, and multifaceted self-reflection, it is possible to gain mastery over such suffering.
Audience discussion will follow. Everyone will leave as a better person than when they arrived.