Editorial Notes
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.
Editorial Notes
Changes, Changes, and Changes
In this issue of Critica, we address the importance of climate change, the political and social issues in the world, and how psychoanalysis is attempting to adapt and respond to these changes.
President’s Remarks
What Does It Mean to Be a Community?
What does it mean to be a “community?” What is it to be an analytic institute–which might be thought of as a specific cluster of community around…in…or…with psychoanalysis? But what does that mean, really?
Poetry
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.
Interview
PINC Corner: Interview with Leigh Lyndon
M: What was the topic of your final paper? L: Theoretically, I was certainly influenced by and trying to take up Winnicott’ s ideas about the use of an object and the false self, but I was also curious about different theories of autistic defenses
Interview
Interview with Todd Troutman
M: What was the topic of your final paper? What were the main ideas discussed? T: In my paper, Primary Object Love and Masculinity, I look at male gender expression in the context of a developing boy’s earliest experiences of being loved by his primary objects.
Interview
Interview with Elise Geltman
M: What was the topic of your final paper? What were the main ideas discussed? E: My graduation paper was entitled, Who is Free to Free Associate: Psychoanalysis and Social Ethics. The first part of the title came to me first as a fragment-thought while still in seminar.
Essay
Postcard from London
Dear PINC, greetings from London! I am here to attend the conference “Knowing What Psychoanalysts Do and Doing What Psychoanalysts Know” held at the University College London, and to go to museums, the theatre, have milk with my tea, and eat sticky toffee pudding.
Essay
“The Analyst’s Necessary Vertigo” and Vertigo – A Preview Not a Review
Surveying psychoanalyst Jade McGleughlin’s Clinical Storytelling, Art and the Problems of Being, subtitled The Analyst’s Necessary Vertigo (2024), I am struck by its title, the image on its cover, and the scope of its Routledge Relational Perspectives presentation.
Essay
A Letter To A Young Writer
The Critica Editorial Team is honored to publish Thomas Ogden’s paper, “Letters to a Young Writer.” It is an invitation to write and fall in love with writing. The paper is not a manual on how to write or edit, but an invitation to write to express your ideas in words.
Art
Sweet Smash Swish
My work is about the importance and beauty of understanding the unconscious meaning beneath a photograph’s obvious content. Through portraiture and still-life, I attempt to peel away external representations and work to understand the essential implications of my relationship to womanhood.
Essay
A Few Brief Thoughts on Thomas Ogden and Ontological Psychoanalysis
Freud’s statement Wo Es war, soll Ich werden, was translated by Strachey as “Where Id was, there Ego shall be.”
Art
Apocalyptic Remains
Apocalyptic Remains, mixed media encaustic painting & dried aloe stems on wood, 18”x24”
Art
Artworks by Andrew Lyndon
The following paintings are taken from two consecutive periods leading to the present. This is to illustrate my fundamental personal truth about neuroses, ironic existence, and their re-casting via therapy.
Essay
On the Question of Dreaming: A Conversation with Freud and the Afterlife of a Childhood Romance
A few days ago, I had a dream about the boy I had a crush on in elementary school.
Essay
Healing Through Dreams
Juli Fraga interviewed Orenda Fink about her memoir, “The Witch’s Daughter,” which tells the story of Ms. Fink’s childhood trauma, her toxic mother, and how Jungian dream work helped her heal.
Poetry
Rumbling
The bed shudders and rumbles at 12:01 and across the dark my husband says, Did you feel that? I am silent. Earthquake, he says, and I feel his body go taut like the elastic spine of a bungee just before it reaches its limit, before it jerks back up in defiance of gravity and good sense.
Essay
Italy, 1955: A Sexual Political Delusion
One: In a conspiracy theories’ democracy, the more far-removed we are from the credible, the more we will be believed. On the 11th of April 1953, the corpse of a 21-year-old Roman woman, Wilma Montesi, was found on the shore of Torvaianica, close to Rome.
Essay
Working Under Conditions of War, The Ukraine
I have often wondered what would have happened to the analysis of traumatic neurosis if Freud had remained faithful or interested or more daring to pursue this subject matter instead of turning to the theme of children’s play.
Poetry
Children of God
CHILDREN OF GAIA as a narrative poem is the summation of forty years of work, mainly in the NHS, with young people and adults failed by their environment in so many ways.
Essay
For a Psychoanalysis that Loves and Respects the Earth
The scientific information available to us today is sufficiently clear and precise to allow us to look at the world less distractedly surprised, more consciously mature regarding the effects of the Anthropocene.
Essay
Converging Crises as a Humanitarian Worker: Climate Change and Mental Health
Humanitarian workers affiliated with international non-governmental organizations, especially those who live and work in high-risk, high-threat environments, are susceptible to developing mental illnesses, including anxiety, trauma, and depression
Art
Moon Setting Over a Drought-Stricken Lake
Moon Setting Over A Drought-Stricken Lake, 12×15, 2021 This image is of a full moon setting over a drought-stricken Jordan Lake in eastern North Carolina.
Essay
In Search of Lost Climates
This summer, my friend was having happy recollections from her childhood as she said, “Greece reminds me of Tunisia”.
Poetry
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