This paper describes the terrorist attacks of September 11, and the political response to them, from the point of view of their unconscious underpinnings, both personal and archetypal.
In the margins of a notebook in which he recorded dreams and composed poems, a young analysand doodled a serpent. The creature's slender body was bent such that its posture mimicked that of a person kneeling in prayer.
Psychologist C. G. Jung once said that all change is experienced by the ego as a death. It's a long, slow process to develop into the person we are.
Sesame is a plant of Asian origin, today widely spread over the Middle East, where it is used to prepare fabulous sweets such as helwa, or doughnuts covered with the characteristic little white seeds.
A psychoanalytical interpretation of the Thousand and One Nights must necessarily begin with the prologue, the overall frame that introduces Shehrazade as teller of healing tales.
