Fadi Abou-Rihan

@fadiabourihan.bsky.social

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Posts (mostly) on psychoanalysis… clinical, theoretical, political Books: Finding Winnicott tinyurl.com/2wnb2eh8, Deleuze & Guattari tinyurl.com/2pxspas9 Site: psychoanalysttoronto.com

None of this occurs in a vacuum. Violence echoes. The attacks on transgender people are intimately tied to the current waves of deportations and the fall of Roe v. Wade, which are part of a larger crackdown on bodily autonomy. Rights are won, and then they are stripped away. For many trans people, this ambivalent dependence on the state is both a privilege and a weakness. We are tied to a political machine that ultimately does not want us. For years, we have been forced to work out creative solutions to bureaucratic snafus; we have celebrated hard-fought victories that often turn out to be short-lived. The state will not save us, we joke, even as we fear that it may very well try to extinguish us.

Jean Allouch (1939-2023)

chocolate sorbet churning, courtesy of David Lebovitz

Wooden psychoanalytic couch with the following inscription above: “In a world, where psychoanalysis is impossible, but necessary, our task is to build another world, in which psychoanalysis is possible, but unnecessary.”