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What brings one to undertake an analysis? It’s a question that echoes ceaselessly, each day, in the sessions with my analysands. Whom do they address? Indeed, there is something of being sought, for there is a speech flowing, and something important is in progress. Psychoanalysis, a theatrical unconscious dialectic, with several acts, and thoroughly about…
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This is going to be a half-finished post, and when I say “half,” I don’t mean it’s quantifiable as half; it was never going to be whole. “Half” is more of a figure of speech, something my supervisor reminded me of for the first couple of years of my work with him. It’s euphemism, Bita.…
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Admiring the musical notes dripping like heavy rain in the psychoanalyst’s consulting room on the Persian rugs, these now Freudian rugs which adorned the floor. Freud’s taste, the only trace of myself which I recognized of myself, was the Persian rugs in my analyst’s room. Choosing Australia as the name for this place, being a…
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نامه ای خطاب به سرزمین خوش شانس ها تهران را در یک روز برفی زیبا ترک کردم. با سوار شدن به هواپیما این حس را داشتم که نمیدانم چقدر طول می کشد تا بتوانم از این خانه دیدن کنم. نمی دانستم چند سال می گذرد تا بتوانم به این خانه برگردم. آیا خانه برای من…
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I made a slip of the tongue in a letter to you, I thought I wanted to write “it” but I wrote “I” instead. I wanted to deny myself the pleasure of displeasure, the discontent. I had reserved the discontent, my annoyance for something specific, something spectacular. I wanted to say that my analysis was…
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(This essay contains fragments of a talk I presented at a symposium in Melbourne in 2018.) The epic love story of Qays (known as Majnun) and his beloved Leili is a Persian tragedy written by the 11th century poet, Nezami Ganjavi. Over the centuries, the legend became the ultimate meaning of love in cultures influenced…
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Recently I saw a purple BMW and the thought of this purple BMW in the Melbourne traffic stayed with me. It was a disruption. The purple was a purple without a metallic shine. It looked like Hobby the Turkish chocolate my father bought for me each time I visited my uncle’s shop together with him…
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This is a hot topic right now considering the Australian Government just cut 10 sessions from the already very limited 20 Medicare rebates for psychology. I am a critic of the Medicare Better Access Initiative and I have wanted to write something about it for some time. I participated in writing an APS submission regarding…
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We always fall in love without knowing what it was that made us fall in love in the first place. It could be a first thought that passed through our mind that gave us a pleasant feeling. Have you ever had this when you met someone and you thought what a nice hair they have,…