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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DON'T SHOOT NOW: This is a slightly revised and updated version of an essay I published in 2011 under the title "Making Time". In it, I shared my viewing experience of Šejla Kamerić and Anri Sala's video work 1395 DAYS WITHOUT RED, a work about what it takes to survive a siege. Then the city was Sarajevo (1992 - 1996), today the cities under ongoing genocidal siege are in Gaza. I dedicate this new version to the Palestinian people in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Read it here

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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