Speaking of Home: An Intimate Exchange on Israel-Palestine
A conversation between psychoanalysts Eyal Rozmarin (Israeli) and Karim Dajani (Palestinian), moderated by ROOM: A Sketchbook of Analytic Action’s Editor-in-Chief, Hattie Myers. With an urgent focus on Israel-Palestine, these two psychoanalysts engage in a powerful and tender conversation showing how unconscious process underlies political-cultural realities and individual misunderstandings.
This exchange was recorded at the Psychology & the Other conference on July 14, 2024, hosted by Boston College and Northeastern University in London.
Since 2017, ROOM has been publishing essays, poetry, art, letters, memoir, and creative nonfiction, using psychoanalysis as a lens for social discourse. This year, ROOM has published an ongoing correspondence between Dajani and Rozmarin. Both analysts share an interest in the role of the unconscious as a cause of political violence, unrest, and polarization. The goal of their conversation is to find new common ground. Their final letters will be published in ROOM 2.25.
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Karim G. Dajani, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and a training and supervising analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. He specializes in working with issues related to cultural dislocation and displacement. He sits on the editorial board of the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. His recent works include a special issue dedicated to the social unconscious and an upcoming chapter on race and ethnicity in contemporary psychoanalytic theories and praxis that will appear in the next edition of the Textbook on Psychoanalysis.
Eyal Rozmarin, PhD, is a psychoanalyst and writer who teaches at the William Alanson White Institute and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. He writes at the intersection of the psychological and the social-political about subjects, collectives, and the forces that pull them together and drive them apart. He is co-editor of the book series Relational Perspectives in Psychoanalysis and sits on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. His upcoming book is titled Belonging and Its Discontents.
To read the correspondence between Eyal and Karim in ROOM 2.24 and ROOM 6.24, click the images below.
