Through a Screen Darkly: Psychoanalytic Reflections During the Pandemic

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