Wordless States

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Editorial Notes

Wordless.States.

Carolina Bacchi
Inside me lies a big Silence. From the challenge of putting into words what cannot yet be thought about to the experience of having a social container that has been disrupted and not offering a landing space for new ideas, I found myself struggling to find what to say.

Editorial Notes

Wordless States of the Mind & Mourning

Luca Di Donna, Ph.D.
In this editorial, I attempt to establish a connection between wordless states of the mind and the concept of mourning in the work of Sigmund Freud. Due to limitations of space, I will not review the vast literature on mourning and melancholia.

Presidents Remarks

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Lessons

Mary Tennes, Ph.D.
(for Ralph)The Jiu Jitsu teacher in the safe falling class tells us to keep rolling, demonstrates how to befriend the ground with suppleness, no clunky stops.

Poetry

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Essay

In Memoriam

Lisa Koshkarian
Renee Nicole Good was 37 years-old when her life was abruptly extinguished by a masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on January 7, 2026.

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Essay

Cradle of Life

Chandra Rai, MFT
Three weeks, three continents, three faiths, and the trinity of birth, life, and death. Woven into them is a journey into the afterlife to complete the circle.

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Critica is an inclusive and transdisciplinary publishing platform that focuses on offering a reflective and aesthetic space to consider social and cultural issues through a psychoanalytic and creative lens. It is also a forum for ideas at the intersection of psychoanalysis, creativity, philosophy, and the social sciences.

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