Articles
In this section, you'll find psychoanalytic articles inspired by my clinical experience, exploring themes that emerge from contemporary life and modern phenomena. I encourage you to share your thoughts, ask questions, or reach out directly if you’d like to learn more. Feel free to suggest topics or ideas for future articles—your input is always welcome.
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The Permission to Breathe: Sealed Lives in Paolo Sorrentino’s Cinema and Clinical Practice
Why do some people choose to live in a prison built of rituals and silences, rather than risk the unpredictability of an encounter? This is the question that runs through the work of Paolo Sorrentino, beginning with The Consequences of Love (2004), continuing with The Family Friend (2006), and resurfacing in his latest film, La
From ‘Attention Seeking’ to ‘Attention Deficit’
A paradox of our times: never have we been so hungry for attention, yet so incapable of sustaining it. We are witnessing a peculiar phenomenon: a society gripped by frantic attention seeking and ADHD symptoms, forming an apparent paradox where we are hungry for gaze yet incapable of focus. These are not separate issues; they
The Desert and the Ethics of Solitude
At some point, you have to realize you are in the desert—you have to face solitude. There’s no one else around—not because others are physically absent, but because the responsibility for speaking, deciding, and acting cannot be outsourced. No one is born in a void. We learn to speak using words that we received from
10 Frequently Asked Questions about Psychoanalysis
I am often asked similar questions about psychoanalysis by people who are curious but find the terminology confusing. I have compiled these psychoanalysis FAQs not only to clarify the process but also to challenge the unbearable clichés often repeated by both laypeople and professionals. This is my attempt to go beyond those stereotypes—even if it
How Psychoanalysis Works (and Why It’s Different): Listening to the Letter
In this article, I describe how psychoanalysis works based on my personal interpretation and clinical practice: a Lacanian-inspired approach where language is central. What follows is not a textbook definition of the entire field, but a personal formulation of the analytic work. Listening to the unconscious We often move through life assuming we know exactly
Revisiting Psychoanalysis in Hong Kong: The Absent, the Present, and the Reinvented
A Personal Note on Research and Practice Some years ago, I published a book that emerged from my PhD research and my first years of living and working in this city: Psychoanalysis in Hong Kong: The Absent, the Present, and the Reinvented (Routledge, 2017). I wrote it at a time when I was still trying