Shattered Containment: Child Abuse and the Collapse of the Maternal Function in Times of Crisis
Introduction: The Maternal Function in Crisis In the psychoanalytic tradition, the maternal function is not simply the biological role of mothering, but a psychic container—a...
Fighting Windmills: Don Quixote and the Psychoanalytic Adventure of Meaning
Introduction: The Knight of the Couch “He attacked the windmills, believing them to be giants.” This well-known scene from Don Quixote (Cervantes, 1605) goes beyond...
Tongues, Bodies, and Borders: Holding Aggression and Vulnerability in a Fragmented World
Introduction: The Nurse, the Witness, and Winnicott’s Baby In every war zone, hospital, migrant camp, or home ravaged by silence, nurses stand as witnesses to...
Bodies in Motion, Voices in Silence: Migration, Machismo, and the Feminine Wound in Latin America
Introduction: The Feminine Migration of Pain Migration in Latin America has long been shaped by forces beyond individual will—natural disasters, economic collapse, violence, political repression,...
Silence Is Better Than Pain: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Gender, Voice, and the Legacy of Patriarchy in Asia
Introduction: The Voice Lost Before It Speaks Across large parts of Asia—India, China, and Japan—women’s experiences are often rendered invisible, unspeakable, or dismissed. The loss...
Daughters of War: Trauma, Gender, and the Silent Body in Post-Conflict China
Introduction: A Nation Shaped by War, A Gender Written in Silence China’s complex history of wars, revolutions, and ideological upheaval has left profound marks not...
Voice to Silence: The Wound of the Feminine in Australia’s Postcolonial Psyche
Introduction: A Voice Deferred In Australia’s complex colonial legacy, women’s voices have often been marginalized—drowned out by dominant national narratives and patriarchal structures. The recent...
Hammering Down the Feminine: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Gender, Illusion, and Silence in Contemporary Japan
Introduction: The Illusion of Harmony and the Repression of the Feminine In contemporary Japan, ideals of social harmony, conformity, and collective identity often suppress individual...
Battleground Bodies: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Gendered Violence and the Uncontained in Northeast India
Introduction: The Body in the Crossfire In May 2023, reports emerged from Northeast India revealing brutal gendered violence amid ethnic clashes. Women’s bodies were targeted...
From Mother’s Milk to the Unspeakable: Women’s Bodies, Migration, and the Trauma of Rejected Femininity
“The body keeps the score” (van der Kolk, 2014), a truth psychoanalysis has long recognized: trauma is embodied, not just remembered. This is vividly seen—and...