Where the Holocaust and Al-Nakba Met: Radioactive identifications and the psychoanalytic frame

Khouri, Lama Z.

doi:10.1057/s41282-018-0097-9

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“…While there are a number of articles within the psychoanalytic literature 13 that are implicitly engaged in identifying and challenging anti-Palestinian racism, for example, those that document the silencing of Palestinian perspectives, and the hostility that can meet attempts to describe the experiences of Palestinian clinicians (e.g., Khouri, 2018aKhouri, , 2018b, the phenomenon itself is seldom identified as such. Naming it will hopefully enable members of the profession to recognize its presence within themselves and in the behavior and speech of others.…”

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What would Freud have made of it? Notes on a “normal pathological organization” within contemporary psychoanalysis

Kemp

Pinto²

2023

Appl Psychoanal Studies

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Psychoanalytic discourse in relation to the situation in historic Palestine is subject to both ideologically‐based and anxiety‐driven inhibitions and restrictions that conflict with the discipline’s claim to be able to “stay with” difficult issues, to “think the unthinkable”. This situation is understood as a social pathology, and its impacts are explored through a literature review (explaining the paper’s length). It considers works that directly seek to protect Zionism from its critics, and texts whose purpose is to demonstrate the relevance of psychoanalytic concepts to the study of social injustice. The qualities of this contemporary discourse are considered alongside Freud’s comments on the conditions for freedom of thought within psychoanalysis, and the example he provided in his comments on politics and society. Rather than a psychoanalytic contribution to understanding an issue of public concern, the paper attempts to describe aspects of psychoanalytic culture itself. It aims to facilitate deeper reflection amongst clinicians, on both an individual and collective level, regarding their contemporary engagement with coloniality and the social responsibilities of the psychoanalytic community.

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“…20 20 The authors have attended a clinical presentation where the patient was described as anti‐Semitic on the basis that he employed a settler colonial framework to understand the situation in Palestine. See also Khouri (2018b). …”

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What would Freud have made of it? Notes on a “normal pathological organization” within contemporary psychoanalysis

Kemp

Pinto²

2023

Appl Psychoanal Studies

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“…The psychoanalyst and child psychiatrist Yasser Ad‐Dab'bagh (), for example, describes an episode in which a psychiatrist colleague introduced him in a jocular tone to a hospitalized patient by saying, “Even though he looks like a terrorist , he really is not [italics in the original].” Others relate more overtly sinister interactions, such as an exploration of her failed personal analysis by a woman of a displaced Palestinian background who was at that time a candidate within a psychoanalytic training institute. Although nothing in her personal history suggested these suspicions could be plausible, she was accused by her analyst—a man whose parents were Holocaust survivors—of a variety of malicious acts such as secretly vandalizing his air conditioner with a marking pen and otherwise aiming to hurt him (Khouri, ).…”

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Silencing Palestine: Limitations on free speech within mental health organizations

Berger

Jabr

2019

Appl Psychoanal Studies

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The authors report on episodes in which five professional mental health organizations—for the most part associations for psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy—have covertly tried to silence members who bring attention to the issue of human rights abuses inflicted by the Israeli occupation of Palestine. These various vignettes illustrate how the leadership of these organizations systematically attempts to limit the activism of their members, even in their “free time,” and to forbid the introduction of discussion of Israel/Palestine into their newsletters, meetings, chatrooms, and other organizational venues—despite the fact that these organizations profess their commitment to exploring themes of social justice and to the principle of open dialogue. Implications and recommendations are discussed, particularly the practical need for transparency on the part of our organizations and the intellectual need for a more complete theoretical understanding of the roles of history, ideology, and collective meaning within mental life.

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Dangerous Dialogues: Racial Enactment as the Scene of Address

Obeid¹,

Schoen²

2020

Contemporary Psychoanalysis

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Where the Holocaust and Al-Nakba Met: Radioactive identifications and the psychoanalytic frame

Cited by 4 publications

References 8 publications

What would Freud have made of it? Notes on a “normal pathological organization” within contemporary psychoanalysis

What would Freud have made of it? Notes on a “normal pathological organization” within contemporary psychoanalysis

Silencing Palestine: Limitations on free speech within mental health organizations

Dangerous Dialogues: Racial Enactment as the Scene of Address

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