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

Beforewordness by Elise Geltman – Wordless.States. by Carolina Bacchi – Wordless States of the Mind & Mourning by Luca Di Donna – Ralph Kaywin Memorial by Carol Mason-Straughan & Sharon Neuwald – Portrait of an Analyst by Dawn Shifreen-Pomerantz – Lessons by Mary Tennes – Ralph Eulogy by Maureen Murphy – The Load-Bearing Symptom by Makhetsi Tessien – Open Mic at the Club Silencio by Eric Essman – Dribbling Tongue by Jasmine Khor – Dissociation by Quintin Bailey – Dissociation (January) by Ayelet Amittay – In Memoriam by Lisa Koshkarian – Gaze by Mali Mann – Haydn’s String Quartet in C minor, Op. 17 No. 4 by Mali Mann – Cradle of Life by Chandra Rai – Great Blue Heron by Mary Tennes – Wax by Ruby Rose Lyons – Don’t Tell: a Reflection by Susan Dix Lyons – The End of the End by Catherine Young – FLOW by Rosalinda Taymor – Matisse’s Unfinished Sketch by Terrance McLarnan – Mother and her infant by Mali Mann – Our Spoon by Clare Knudson – With the World in Retrograde by Joyce Schmid – Urn by Scott Perna – Wave of the Clouds by Red Bailey – In Praise of Wordless States by Ora Barkan – New Hope, BLANK CANVAS by Richard Schnap – Soul Whispers by Jacob Uzuncan – Contemplation by Rosalinda Taymor – Don’t Speak by Adam Blum – What We See in the Recesses of the Park by Mary McMillan – Genesis by Sharon Itkoff Nacache – Biopsy by Scott Perna