Days of Awe: September 11, 2001 and its Cultural Psychodynamics
@article{Stein2003DaysOA, title={Days of Awe: September 11, 2001 and its Cultural Psychodynamics}, author={Howard Stein}, journal={Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society}, year={2003}, volume={8}, pages={187 - 199} }
Near the end of September 2001, my seven yearold son, Zev, came home from school with, among other papers, a pencil drawing he had made. Everyone in the second grade class had been asked to draw something about Halloween. His was a simple sketch. In the center of the 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of paper was a tall, thin rectangular boxy figure, flanked on either side by a couple of long, concave, petal-like strokes. I asked him what it was about—was there a story? He said, “It’s a haunted tower, and at…
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