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Felicity Callard
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Geographies & histories of what we have come to call “mental health” | the university | daydreams & fantasies | Freud | Marx

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · Jan 28
I wrote on psychic life and Palestinian resistance

– to ensure more people read Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social.

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For the Palestinian people, psychic life is just as much a site of struggle for liberation as social life. Palestinians are persistently refused psychological amplitude, characteristics easily granted to those who are never worried they might fall out of what is constituted as the category of the human. Abdaljawad Omar’s writings in English published since October 7, 2023 (as well as writings by other Palestinians, other Arabs, and those of Palestinian descent) offer means of understanding material resistance in relation to the terrain of the psyche. Omar offers distinctive accounts of mourning, loss, and ruins, as well as of how settler colonialism reorganizes experiences of time and relations between past, present, and future. The article reads Omar’s writings against other accounts of mourning and of psychic phenomena that are indebted to psychoanalysis. Omar’s analyses of Palestinians’ resistance to unfreedom and annihilation open up other ways of understanding the psychic vicissitudes of those who suffer, grieve, and struggle to exit a colonial condition characterized by the colonizer’s repeated attempts to break psychic worlds as well as erase bodily life. Understandings of psychic life that do justice to how Palestine is redrawing the world are central to the work of ‘cracking history open’.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 2d
And this is the guy who is now the reported owner of Beckmann’s famous painting on the violence of the Nazi regime (see news.artnet.com/market/chris...)

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The confessions of Leon Black, the billionaire who bankro...
In Money to Burn, author William D Cohan speaks to the ruthless businessman and art collector whose friendship with Epstein ended his career
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