Cafe Lit. 42: Cyrus the great

Subject : Cyrus the great and Achaemenid Empire
Date: 1st Nov. 2007
Presented by : Majid Fekri

Cafe Lit. 41: Sigmund Freud & Freudian Psychoanalysis

Subject: Sigmund Freud & Freudian Psychoanalysis
Date: 20:00 25 Oct. 2007
Presented by: Pasha Javadi

Sigmund Freud, physiologist, medical doctor and father of psychoanalysis, is generally recognised as one of the most influential and authoritative thinkers of the twentieth century. He articulated and refined the concepts of the unconscious, of infantile sexuality, of repression, and proposed a tri-partite account of the mind's structure, all as part of a new conceptual frame of reference for the understanding of human psychological development and the mental conditions. Freud's innovative treatment of human actions, dreams, and indeed of cultural artefacts as invariably possessing implicit symbolic significance has proven to be extraordinarily fecund, and has had massive implications for a wide variety of fields, including anthropology, semiotics, and artistic creativity and appreciation in addition to psychology. However, Freud's most important and frequently re-iterated claim, that with psychoanalysis he had invented a new science of the mind, remains the subject of much critical debate and controversy.

Cafe Lit. 40: Vipassana & Buddhism

Subject: Vipassana & Buddhism
Date: 18 Oct. 2007
Present by: Mohammad Larijani

Vipassana, which means to see things as they really are, is one of India's most ancient techniques of meditation which was rebuilt by Buddha. It was taught in India more than 2500 years ago as a universal remedy for universal ills, i.e., an Art of Living.¨

This non-sectarian technique aims for the total eradication of mental impurities and the resultant highest happiness of full liberation. Healing, not merely the curing of diseases, but the essential healing of human suffering, is its purpose.

Cafe Lit. 39: Fereidoon Moshiri

Subject: Fereidoon Moshiri
Date: 11 Oct. 2007
Presented by: Babak Esmaeili



به روز نوجواني 'روي گونه'اولين موي سياه
قلم در دست'بزرگ در سر
عيان بر ديده كردي'عشق پنهانت بيان
كه مهر آمد به پايان '
به آبان كه رسيديم سومش آمد غمان
كه عشق آمد ولي جانت به خاك
Ali Rahnama

Cafe Lit. 38: Legal systems of the world

Subject: "Legal systems of the world" (Nezamhaye hoghooghie donya)
Presented by: Mohammad Larijani
Date: 4 Oct. 2007 at 20:30