Abstract
This essay explores many different dimensions of the event of September 11, 2001. Events are not easy to define or delimit, in time, space, causality or consequence. In this essay, I reflect on, and revisit, the impact of 9/11 on me as an Indian-American immigrant, and a psychoanalyst living and practicing in New York City. I examine the ways in which the event has changed for me over time, and how it has changed me, and my relationship to the culture at large, over the last two decades.
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1 A term coined by military analyst Donald Brennan in 1962, arguing against the rationale of stockpiling nuclear weapons with the hope of deterrence.
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Gurmeet S. Kanwal
Gurmeet S. Kanwal, MD, is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He is Supervising Psychoanalyst and Teaching Faculty at the William Alanson White Institute, and Past President of the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society. He is a member of the Editorial Board, and Fellow of the College, of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and editorial Board member of the Journal of Psychoanalytic Discourse. Dr. Kanwal is co-editor, with Dr. Salman Akhtar, of “Bereavement - Personal Experiences and Clinical Reflections” (Karnac) and “Intimacy: Clinical, Cultural, Digital and Developmental Perspectives” (Routledge). Dr. Kanwal is in full-time Private Practice in New York City.