• DOI:10.1353/psy.2003.0047
Corpus ID: 144229311

Days of Awe: September 11, 2001 and its Cultural Psychodynamics

@article{Stein2003DaysOA,
  title={Days of Awe: September 11, 2001 and its Cultural Psychodynamics},
  author={H. Stein},
  journal={Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society},
  year={2003},
  volume={8},
  pages={187 - 199}
}

H. Stein

Published 2003

Psychology

Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society

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… CONTINUE READING

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