Editorial Notes
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.
Editorial Notes
Editorial Notes by Luca Di Donna: Critica Vol. 5, No. 1
This year has been a great year for Critica. As mentioned by Carolina, our dream became a reality and we have a website. We are also moving in some ne
President’s Remarks
March 2024
Dear PINC Community,Unbelievably, this will be my last message to you as PINC’s President. Two years have gone by quickly, and, as always in the life
Announcements
Saying Goodbye to Gail Kaplan, Our Executive Director
In recent years we have all become conversant with ideas about the social unconscious having to do with the silent transmission of culture. These idea
Event
Flights of Imagination In Critica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B8A7ri7xlc On March 23, 2024 we held a Critica Event which was both a poetry reading and an art show that s
Poetry
Poetry
Day 225
Let me tell you this: if one day thirty, forty years from now you find yourself talking about this time in histor
Art
She Lapped Against The Shore
She lapped against the shore, restless like the sea, ready for any adventure, that blew along her way – Atticus Glass and photographic decal
Essay
The Invisible Woman
My mother was born in Vietnam while under French colonial rule and grew up during the American-Vietnam War. As one out of eight children, she was rais
Art
After Kollwitz
Kathe Kollwitz suffered the agonies of WWI before they happened. As a committed socialist and pacifist artist in the late nineteenth and early twentie
Film Review
House and Garden
A chief characteristic of non-documentary cinema is the way the director’s unique vision not only shapes but also stylistically characterizes the narr
Film Review
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 (202
Essay
“Why War?” Revisited: Reflections on Psychoanalysis and Human Aggression
This essay is a preview of a new book Human Aggression and War which will be released in 2024.In 1933 Freud wrote a letter to Einstein later titled “W
Poetry
Art
Untitled 33 from Watermelons Are Not Strawberries
“When I couldn’t eat strawberries, I pretended watermelons were strawberries.” — Said 5 years old Vitória Bacchi to a friend who also had mu
Essay
Interwoven Peaces
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people…to fulfill the promise of being one people, necessary to abolish any governmen
Art
Christiane Laurito
Penitencia by Chris Laurito Essa documentação foi realizada na Comunidade Saquinho, sertão da Bahia, às margens do Rio São Francisco. Seguindo um ritu
Poetry
The Body Knows
Nex Benedict, a non-binary teenager living in Oklahoma, died at the age of 16 on February 8th, 2024. Their death followed an altercation with classmat
Editorial
Puzzle
I love puzzles. I love scattering the pieces, I like looking for the frame pieces, assembling the frame, and slowly connecting the pieces to
Poetry
Essay
Is It Possible to Mourn?
Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation,
Essay
Perro Perdido, (The Lost Dog)
Shortly after a Catholic priest recommended I seek psychotherapy, I found myself in the small waiting area at the top of the long narrow sta
Poetry
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