About
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.
Critica is published online twice a year, in the Fall and Spring. Previous issues can be found in our archives, and printed on demand. The publication receives submission of essays, literary and artistic pieces, and book/film reviews in response or in conversation with contemporary collective/social experiences.
PINC (Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California) News and Notes Newsletter transitioned into Critica in 2020. The idea of Critica naturally evolved from shifts in the content of our Newsletter that reflected the search for new languages to address and understand the many layers of emotional experience evoked in a world in transition (and crisis). It was born from a need for contemporary explorations of the interplay of the psychic, the social, the cultural and the political.
Critica aims to offer a space for social, political and cultural critical thinking while promoting social change. Our objective was to broaden the impact of psychoanalytic critical thinking beyond PINC and establish a cutting-edge contemporary reflective space. In this sense, Critica functions as an informative, opinion forming, outreach opportunity and container for thinking through our emotional and social realities.
If you would like to know more, you may contact us at critica@critica.press