We Are All Much More Simply Unsettled Than Otherwise: Reply to Commentaries by González, Rozmarin, and Tummala-Narra

Abstract

In this paper I respond to the commentaries by González, Rozmarin, and Tummala-Narra and address some of the issues they raise. These are the themes of unsettledness, the anxiety of the immigrant as well as of the “native,” the experience of marginalization, and the topic of secrecy and privacy. I appreciate that I am included in this inspiring dialogue and have the opportunity to rethink my paper in the context of the current social and political frame.

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Veronica Csillag

Veronica Csillag, L.C.S.W., is Faculty and Co-Director, Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis; former Faculty and Supervisor, Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services; former Faculty, NYU School of Social Work. She is coauthor, coproducer, and actor, The Blue Crystal Teardrop (1990), a 35-minute narrative film; author, “The Child Patient of This Particular Therapist,” Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy (2005); “Ordinary Sadism in the Consulting Room,” Psychoanalytic Dialogues (2014). She is in private practice in New York City.