I am a New York City trained psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in private practice, published writer and translator. I currently live and work in Granada (Spain).

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in the news
March 2024: as a German citizen I am deeply concerned about the German state's near total identification with the current Israeli government and its ongoing genocidal destruction of Gaza and its population. In Germany, shows, readings, lectures, protests and award ceremonies are being cancelled in order to prevent expression of compassion with Palestine and / or criticism of current Israeli politics. Calling for a ceasefire is considered anti-semitic, and sanctions are imposed. Jewish Germans, Israeli citizens and Jewish intellectuals are reprimanded for disapproving of the war in Gaza. Muslim voices are met with with suspicion. Journalists have become mouthpieces of the government. I'm sharing links to commentaries by Susan Neiman and Masha Gessen, whose pieces shed light on the broader context of this extraordinary suppression of free speech. I'm also sharing an older essay of mine "Teutonic shifts, Jewish Voids (published in 2012).

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

ESSAYS, LECTURES etc.

essay:
Like a Fugitive Love, in: Division/Review 30/2023
lecture:
SHAME – and the Limits of Gender Studies, Universität Wien, Nov. 2019

essay:
Words of Seeing, DIVISION/Review 19 (2019)

essay:
All My Toys Are Dead: Chantal Akerman's NO HOME MOVIE, in: International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 2019

email conversation
with Christian
Schenkermayr
„Andre Jungfrauen für andre, diese für mich allein“
Glaube, Ökonomie und Geschlecht in Elfriede Jelineks "Abraumhalde".

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Published TRANSLATIONS:

Freud at Work: on the history of psychoanalytic theory and practice by Ulrike May (Routledge 2018), chapters. 3, 5, 6, 7.

new translation of
Sabina Spielrein, Die Destruktion als Ursache des Werdens / Destruction as the Cause of Becoming, in: Pamela Cooper White & Felicity Brock Kelcourse, eds., "Sabina Spielrein and the Beginnings of Psychoanalysis.
With Twelve New Translations," Routledge 2019.

BOOKS:
reprint of award-winning book Verschleierte Wirklichkeit
(1st printing 2007) with a
new introduction,
and a newly designed
cover
featuring a photograph by Kurosh Adim.

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