On Tiles and Flesh
Lisbon, 2025. The 54th IPA Conference, Psychoanalysis: an anchor in chaotic times, gathers at the Centro Cultural de Belem. Across the street from the conferenc...
On Freedom and Connection
Our Spring 2025 issue theme invites reflecting “On Freedom.” In this issue, our contributors grappled with the subtleties around what it means to be free ...
Return of the Repressed: In conversation with Anita Barrows (Day 225)
Anita Barrows published three selected poems on Critica – Shattered Peaces, Volume 5, Number 1....
Fragments
“Writing is a question of becoming, always incomplete, always in the midst of being formed, and goes beyond the matter of any lived or liveable experience. It...
Shattered and Scattered Peaces
In this issue, I found writers, poets, artists, psychoanalysts, engaging with the complexities of human experiences that explode into broken pieces....
Return of the Repressed: In Conversation With Max Kellenberger
Max Kellenberger published six selected photographs from the series “Gravity” on Critica - Visible/Invisible, Volume 4, Number 2....
Future Past Life: Shattered Selves and Shattered Relationships in an Immigrant Story
I felt captured by the way Celine Song explores the foreigner dilemma and complexities in her delicate semi-autobiographical Past Lives (2023). The movie explor...
A Fragile Thread
In times when life is held by a thread, and respite feels unattainable, we are left with the difficult task to attend, contend with, and find ways to embrace th...
Return of the Repressed: In Conversation with Christiane Laurito
Carolina Bacchi interviewed Christiane Laurito about her photographs “Lascívia”, “Alento”, and “Partidas e Chegadas”, published on Critica Spring 2...
A Conference in the Mangroves of La Boquilla
Our flight landed in Cartagena. Beautiful Colombia, I thought, while invaded by Gabriel Garcia Marques descriptions of this country that I am about to encounter...
The Pulsating Body in Psychoanalysis
Beyond the psychic space, I find necessary to highlight the body as existing in the social sphere and as such collectively marked....
Return of the Repressed
In conversation with Lisa Koshkarian Bodily Autonomy, Reproductive Rights and Unsilencing Islands of Marginalization...
On Writing, Oppression and Freedom
“Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.” Toni Morriso...
On Uncertainty, Creativity and Our Inevitable Humanness
“Today could be the day I die.” My teacher’s words resonate in the background as I sit in meditation. As waves, my thoughts come and go and I hold images ...
Return of the Repressed: In conversation with Thomas Marcacci
Carolina Bacchi interviewed Thomas Marcacci about his essay “Line, space, time. Encounter between an artist and a psychoanalyst”, published on Critica, issu...
Our voices, our world.
Welcome to our Fall 2021 Issue of Critica! During 2020, many countries and cultures have been trying to navigate a world transformed by a Global Pandemic. From ...
Editorial Notes by Carolina Bacchi (Spring 2021)
Welcome to our Spring 2021 Issue of Critica! While navigating the pressures and uncertainties of the COVID crises, we encountered an explosion of disruptive soc...
Return of the Repressed: Otherness, Assimilation and Psychoanalysis
In conversation with Molly Merson, M.F.T....
Editorial Note by Carolina Bacchi (Fall 2020)
This issue of the newsletter required an attempt to find a creative voice inside or born from overwhelm. In the beginning of 2020, we have decided to have this ...
Virtually Wired
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