Culture and Psychoanalysis

Silhouette of a man in a dark suit standing with his back to the camera in front of a bright window, reflected on a polished floor in a luxurious, somber room. A visual representation of a 'sealed life' and the fear of intimacy.

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 […]

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Vast red sand dunes in the desert under a clear blue sky, evoking a sense of peace and solitude

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

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A hardcover book titled "Psychoanalysis in Hong Kong" by Diego Busiol stands upright on a wooden shelf against a white wall. To the right of the book is a small toy model of a red and cream Hong Kong public light bus. The book cover features an abstract blue and white design.

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

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