ABSTRACT
Dr Kabasakalian-McKay’s hopeful discussion, in which she evokes a meeting between traditional enemies, is countered by the author’s awareness of a perhaps phylogenetic loyalty toward one’s “people,” a response relatively inured to the reason and self-reflexivity required for reconciliation.
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Emily A. Kuriloff
Emily A. Kuriloff, Psy.D, is Director of Clinical Education, and a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the William Alanson White Institute in New York. She is former Book Review Editor and has been on the editorial board of the journal Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Her scholarly writing includes the intersection between culture, politics, and psychoanalysis, and the relationship between action and reflection, body and mind. Her book, Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Legacy of the Third Reich, explores how the trauma of the Shoah transformed the development of psychoanalysis at its apex and beyond, and was published by Routledge in 2014.