Comments on: Psychoanalysis in the Time of Plague: This *Is* Psychoanalysis! https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/psychoanalysis-time-of-plague/ Sun, 12 Apr 2020 18:35:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Veronica Csillag https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/psychoanalysis-time-of-plague/#comment-25211 Sun, 12 Apr 2020 18:35:47 +0000 https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/?post_type=blog_post&p=17508#comment-25211 Thank you, Blair. Indeed, we are moving around in a virtual reality, an alternate universe, so to speak. While this is the nightmare, from which we are not going to wake up anytime soon, we are discovering new ways of being.

]]> By: Blair Casdin https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/psychoanalysis-time-of-plague/#comment-25210 Sun, 12 Apr 2020 16:26:33 +0000 https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/?post_type=blog_post&p=17508#comment-25210 Loved your post, Veronica. I am daily wondering what I’m doing as the frame shifts, breaks a little, comes back together. I’ve moved around in my current virtual office. The best location in the room has a giant map behind me. The map has been the focus of several conversations about where I am, where we all are,, and for some how nice it is to have a different view of me than the one they’ve had for years!

]]> By: Debora Worth https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/psychoanalysis-time-of-plague/#comment-25209 Wed, 08 Apr 2020 15:45:05 +0000 https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/?post_type=blog_post&p=17508#comment-25209 I promise you I wash very often, and my shoes are in excellent shape (though we don’t wear shoes inside our home). And I don’t wear my ratty, torn sweatpants; my version of “properly attired” means wearing a nice top, lipstick, and earrings. So I haven’t gone entirely to pot, I’m just being a shade more comfortable, which feels right to me in this time.

For real darkness, try re-watching “Contagion”, the 2007 movie with Matt Damon. It’s like seeing a current news report, just with better-looking people. Creepily prescient.

]]> By: Veronica Csillag https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/psychoanalysis-time-of-plague/#comment-25208 Wed, 08 Apr 2020 14:25:53 +0000 https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/?post_type=blog_post&p=17508#comment-25208 Thanks, Debby. Actually, I get properly attired each day, and now even on the weekends, which is new. Very early on in this process I decided that it might be demoralizing if I did not. Probably this has something to do with my family’s Holocaust background. According to anecdotal evidence the people who survived the camps were the ones who washed themselves, even in the freezing weather and who took good care of their shoes. I do not by any means suggest that everyone ought to do that but it works for me. Very cheerful, I realize. From one apocalyptic scene to another. Speaking of which, I have been watching Babylon, Berlin, a series about the Weimar Republic, for the past couple of weeks. Check it out if you don’t mind some more darkness.

]]> By: Debora Worth https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/psychoanalysis-time-of-plague/#comment-25207 Wed, 08 Apr 2020 13:35:56 +0000 https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/?post_type=blog_post&p=17508#comment-25207 And on a much lighter note, no one else has mentioned the silver lining of being able to wear sweatpants or jeans every day. I wonder if that will survive the apocalypse.

]]> By: Veronica Csillag https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/psychoanalysis-time-of-plague/#comment-25206 Tue, 07 Apr 2020 22:41:43 +0000 https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/?post_type=blog_post&p=17508#comment-25206 Thank you, Emi. I appreciate your reflections.

]]> By: Chaim E. Bromberg https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/psychoanalysis-time-of-plague/#comment-25205 Tue, 07 Apr 2020 19:51:23 +0000 https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/?post_type=blog_post&p=17508#comment-25205 Thank you, Veronica, for this post. I join you in celebrating the flexibility, creativity, and collaborative spirit that allows us to recalibrate and at times even re-create our relationships and our analyses in the midst of upheaval and uncertainty. Psychoanalysis exists in order to help us to help people, not in order to achieve fidelity to it’s own structures and rules. Your focus on what matters is an important and valuable signpost in disorienting times.

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