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Dreaming Without Borders: Sudhir Kakar in conversation with Sigmund Freud
by Shalini Masih Welcome to a dream-travel. It is a strange invitation and, and yet not at all strange to the regular traveller into the unconscious mind. It is an invitation to enter an experience as Sudhir Kakar ushered his audience into an imaginary psychic field where he, Kakar of 2022, met Sigmund Freud of
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In the Rearview, A Mirror
By Shalini Masih The war back home between India and Pakistan escalated, each news report intensifying the heaviness in my chest. Living in England, I was constantly reminded of the enduring legacy of colonialism, a historical force whose fingerprints shaped conflicts and constructed divisions. Yet my life now in this country has much beauty in
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To Love Without Needing
By Shalini Masih Spring unfurled itself tentatively as we, a group of psychoanalytic therapists, gathered to speak of love, not its blazing form but it’s quiet, clandestine form that pulsates in the corners of our work. It was Sheldon Bach’s (2006) paper that served as the vessel: a meditation on love as the unseen scaffolding
Shades of Becoming 