03677oam 2200625I 450 991082566060332120190503073405.00-262-30506-21-283-59317-397866139056280-262-30598-49786613905628(CKB)2670000000241645(EBL)3339499(SSID)ssj0000711211(PQKBManifestationID)12315795(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000711211(PQKBWorkID)10682159(PQKB)10241545(MiAaPQ)EBC3339499(OCoLC)812066349(OCoLC)810317474(OCoLC)810414829(OCoLC)817811902(OCoLC)961548013(OCoLC)962604144(OCoLC-P)812066349(MaCbMITP)9510(Au-PeEL)EBL3339499(CaPaEBR)ebr10599084(CaONFJC)MIL390562(OCoLC)812066349(EXLCZ)99267000000024164520120611h20122012 fy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDoing psychoanalysis in Tehran /Gohar Homayounpour ; foreword by Abbas KiarostamiCambridge, Massachusetts ;London, England :The MIT Press,[2012]©20121 online resource (175 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-262-01792-X Contents; Foreword; Preface: Is Psychoanalysis Possible in the Islamic Republic of Iran?; Upon Arriving in Tehran; A Few Years after Returning to Tehran"Is psychoanalysis possible in the Islamic Republic of Iran? This is the question that Gohar Homayounpour poses to herself, and to us, at the beginning of this memoir of displacement, nostalgia, love, and pain. Twenty years after leaving her country, Homayounpour, an Iranian, Western-trained psychoanalyst, returns to Tehran to establish a psychoanalytic practice. When an American colleague exclaims, 'I do not think that Iranians can free-associate!' Homayounpour responds that in her opinion Iranians do nothing but. Iranian culture, she says, revolves around stories. Why wouldn't Freud's methods work, given Iranians' need to talk? Thus begins a fascinating narrative of interlocking stories that resembles--more than a little--a psychoanalytic session. Homayounpour recounts the pleasure and pain of returning to her motherland, her passion for the work of Milan Kundera, her complex relationship with Kundera's Iranian translator (her father), and her own and other Iranians' anxieties of influence and disobedience. Woven throughout the narrative are glimpses of her sometimes frustrating, always candid sessions with patients. Ms. N, a famous artist, dreams of abandonment and sits in the analyst's chair rather than on the analysand's couch; a young chador-clad woman expresses shame because she has lost her virginity; an eloquently suicidal young man cannot kill himself. As a psychoanalyst, Homayounpour knows that behind every story told is another story that remains untold. Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran connects the stories, spoken and unspoken, that ordinary Iranians tell about their lives before their hour is up."--Jacket.PsychoanalysisIranPsychotherapyIranCULTURAL STUDIES/GeneralPsychoanalysisPsychotherapy616.8/914/0095525Homayounpour Gohar1977-1593174OCoLC-POCoLC-PBOOK9910825660603321Doing psychoanalysis in Tehran3913183UNINA