CRITICA

Critica is an inclusive and transdisciplinary publishing platform that focuses on offering a reflective and aesthetic space to consider complex social and cultural issues through psychoanalytic and creative lens. We invite dialogue while offering the possibility of expression and creative expansion of our understanding of contemporary cultural and collective issues in the hopes of promoting social change.

Contents

Inside this garden by Terrance McLarnan – President’s Remarks: On Freedom by Elise Geltman – Creativity: Boundaries and Freedoms by Dawn Shiffreen-Pomerantz – Editorial Notes: On Freedom and Connection by Carolina Bacchi – Freedom is part of us by Luca Di Donna – PINC Corner by Miriam Barraza – Memorial for Susan Sands by Elise Geltman – Here after all by Mike Callaghan – Emanuel Windholz: My Father and One of the Founding Fathers of Psychoanalysis in San Francisco by Michael Windholz – Michael Windholz Remembrance by Stephen Seligman – Michael Windholz Remembrance by Maureen Murphy and Victor Bonfiglio – Personal Freedom Amidst Societal Limits: the Role of Creativity by Sharon Neuwald – Freedom, defiantly by Terrance McClarnan – We Are Still Here: Music, Memory, and the Sound of Colonial Defiance in Bad Bunny’s DtMF by Adam J. Rodríguez – Dear El Salvador by Rae Perlman – Outside by Richard Schnap – A Gift by Ilyse Simon – I am not a ghost by Sandra Bacchi – Poem Inspired by Joy Harjo’s “Remember” by Nico Peck – Free Enclave by Jeanine Stewart – Price by Richard Schnap – Harah’s Star by Ruby Rose Lyons – Ohio by Susan Dix Lyons – Sabine Women Stop the War, after Rubens by Paul Ransohoff – The Phone on the Wall by Scott Lines – Learning to See a Waterfall by Mary McMillan – The Scarlet “I” by Makhetsi Tessien – Far Beyond the Family: We are children of a thousand men by Luciana Pires – Cold Spell by Richard Schnap – Acephale by Stephen Mosblech – Driving West by Amanda Bean – Love by Richard Schnap – A Meditation on the Future by John Woods – Malignant Mirror by John Woods – Beyond the wall by Richard Schnap – Silent Cinema by Terrance McLarnan