Through a Screen Darkly: Psychoanalytic Reflections During the Pandemic

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Cover Endorsements Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Figures Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Pandemic Waking Up to Covid-19 Walking Through A plague Physican Stress Measuring Risk Looking Around Getting to Know Ourselves Alone What’s Funny About A pandemic? Dressing Up The Virus as Muse Cyborgs When You Have Lemons . . . Smart People, Dumb Actions Honesty Reading A poem Part II: Venturing out Sharing A post-pandemic World Silence Writing the Pandemic The Rabbi and the Pandemic Looking for A job The Problem of Choice Stepping Out Parents, Risk, and the Pandemic Keeping It Together Gardening Self-confidence Tough Choices To Commute or Not? Hieronymus Bosch Father’s Day Who Needs Anxiety? Part III: The new normal Gender Do We Still Want to Buy Stuff? The Brooklyn Bridge Having A baby Dating –who Said It Would Be Easy? Elderly Parents The Psychiatrist and the Guitar Camping Returning to the Office Talking to the Kids Climate Change Throwing Pots Writer’s Block Drinking Part IV: Life, simplified (not really) Parting Ways Teaching the Pandemic Germaphobia Painting the Pandemic Back to School Vigilantism Getting Old Second Chances Reinventing Yourself? In the Light of Eternity Yeats and the “Second Coming” Fragile Egos In-person Meetings Play Acceptance Reflections References Index