This year has been a great year for Critica. As mentioned by Carolina, our dream became a reality and we have a website. We are also moving in some new and different directions, including having a larger editorial team. We are very pleased to have a new member, Miriam Barraza, who is a first year analytic candidate at PINC and a bi-cultural and bi-lingual Spanish analyst. Also, this year we put on a special event, “Flights of Imagination,” which took place at PINC. The event was organized by Dawn Shifreen-Pomerantz, Luba Palmer and Sandra Bacchi from Brazil. We invited poets, filmmakers, photographers and painters, all of whom shared their works The event was a great success resulting in a dynamic sense of synergy among the audience.
This new issue of Critica is visually stunning. Part of our success is that our work, our writing and our editing are moving away from a linear perspective. We are embracing some ideas proposed by Luke Gibbons, a leading voice in Irish literature. His new book “James Joyce and the Irish Revolution: The Easter Rising”, describes James Joyce as political and revolutionary. It was reviewed by Terry Eagleton in New Left Review (N. 145). Eagleton writes, “Gibbons’ claims coincided with the emergence of dissonant narrative forms as linear storytelling gives way in Joyce and others to breaks, montage, unstable points of views and multiple temporalities.” (p 151)
We believe that Gibbons’ work could well be applied to contemporary psychoanalytic writings with new political ideas. With this new frame of thinking, we at Critica are deeply concerned about the political situation in the world. We believe that psychoanalysis could be helpful if we work in a collective way, establishing a place to think about and create a new “talking cure.”
References:
Terry Eagleton (2024) Review of Gibbons. James Joyce and the Irish Revolution: The eastern Rising as a modern event. University of Chicago Press (2023): in New Left Review (2024) n.145, p.151.
