Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran - Homayounpour, Gohar
Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran - Homayounpour, Gohar A Western-trained psychoanalyst returns to her homeland and tells stories of displacement, nostalgia, love, and pain.Is psychoanalysis possible in…
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Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran - Homayounpour, Gohar
A Western-trained psychoanalyst returns to her homeland and tells stories of displacement, nostalgia, love, and pain.Is psychoanalysis possible in the Islamic Republic of Iran? Twenty years after leaving her country, Homayounpour, an Iranian, Western-trained psychoanalyst, returns to Tehran to establish a psychoanalytic practice. This is the question that Gohar Homayounpour poses to herself, and to us, at the beginning of this memoir of displacement, nostalgia, love, and pain.
Iranian culture, she says, revolves around stories. When an American colleague exclaims, "I do not think that Iranians can free-associate " Homayounpour responds that in her opinion Iranians do nothing but. Why wouldn't Freud's methods work, given Iranians' need to talk?Thus begins a fascinating narrative of interlocking stories that resembles--more than a little--a psychoanalytic