by Kate Niles | Dec 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
So here is a picture of two women I don’t know very well, but I do know. The woman running the sled is someone I used to teach with twenty-odd years ago, and the woman in front of her was part of a book club I attended for a while in...
by Kate Niles | Dec 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
Jacques Lacan, the French psychoanalyst, refers to the role of inscription [i.e., writing] in helping a person fundamentally separate from traumatic context: “The way inscription on a tombstone allows leaving the dead – and the trauma leading to the death – because...
by Kate Niles | Dec 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
Today I riff on this: “The word ‘therapist’ has an ancient Greek root in the word ‘therapon’ (Davoine and Gaudilliere, 2004, p.153), the second-in-combat, the one who attends to the burial of the warrior.” – M. Gerard Fromm Traveling Through Time: How Trauma Plays out...