Ghassan Assaf, ALDeP -Association Libanaise Pour le Développement de la Psychanalyse First, I thought it was all a misunderstanding - Sir, sorry to interrupt you, but you need to come with us. You are under arrest. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in court. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for you. - What? Is that a joke? please let me eat my Ice cream in peace. - You will eat it on your way to jail. - But what have I done? - I have no right to say anything, but I’ll just read the arrest warrant to you. It - Please sir let me finish the list, there are more: envy, jealousy, sexual scenarios, and other fantasies, thoughts and feelings that were thought or felt or that will be in the future. - But who are you to accuse me of something that did not even happen yet? - Sir, it’s obvious that you don’t know yet who we are. I’m sorry I should have introduced myself first. I’m officer Ken, my colleagues call me Big Brother. Gloriana Bartoli, American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) Member and Director of Training of the New Zealand Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (NZIPP) At first, I thought it was all a misunderstanding. “He said this, I said that, and then it went on and on ... But how did it start? Hard to say”. mentions accusations of murder, robbery, adultery. - What? what? I never done any of these atrocities. She started to look outside the window and stared at the horizon - the same landscape she had always seen, every morning, every day of her life. “How could it be seen differently?”. It felt unequivocable; indeed, she could not make him see her side, and equally she could not see his side, and vice versa. The sun was rising, and she was still looking outside the window. She looked up: a bird came through, flying high in the sky. “Here is something different from the usual, the same old, same old I’d seen every day of my life”, she thought. Then she looked down: a mother with a baby were walking quietly on the street, beneath the trees. The baby looked up and captured her gaze; she smiled. They smiled at each other for a few seconds, and it felt like forever. Now she knew how a misunderstanding could be broken, if not how it came about. The morning started with heavy rain, and he was already feeling sad at the start of the day, even before going to work.
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