Dear Eyal

ABSTRACT

In this paper, Gohar Homayounpour responds in the format of a letter to Eyal Rozmarin’s paper: Belonging and its Discontents, in which he lyrically and psychoanalytically addresses the current war in Gaza, in a deeply personal spirit as an Israeli-American psychoanalyst living under its tragic and disturbing shadow. Homayounpour attempts to question our need for belonging, towards an ethics of un-belonging. The various problematics/seductions of belonging are confronted metapsychologically, but she moves beyond that into a personal/political narrative on the horrific and ongoing tragedy in Israel and Palestine. Where dreams have failed into nightmares, where Radical hope or the ethics of the social as she puts it, becomes more radically indispensable than ever.

This article is referred to by:

Belonging and Its Discontents

This article responds to:

Belonging on the Edge

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Gohar Homayounpour

Gohar Homayounpour, Psy.D. is a psychoanalyst and award winning author. She is a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association, and the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is a Training and Supervising psychoanalyst of the Freudian Group of Tehran, of which she is also founder and past president. She is a member of the scientific board at the Freud museum in Vienna, and of the IPA group Geographies of Psychoanalysis. Her first book, Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran (2012, MIT) won the Gradiva award and has been translated into many languages. Her latest book is titled Persian Blues, Psychoanalysis and Mourning (2022, Routledge).