Six months later, Gaza’s destruction has exposed the power – and danger – of our fundamental need to belong
Illustration by Ayumi Tanaka
Psychoanalysis is a choreography of closeness and distance. You need to feel close enough to your analyst so that what you are most hopeful or excited about, or afraid or ashamed of, can emerge. But you also need the safety of distance – otherwise it can become just another demanding relationship, like the ones you are trying to change.
But we are living through a political and moral earthquake, and it can be hard to keep a distance.
