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Palestinian suffering: some personal, historical, and psychoanalytic reflections
Author(s) -
Jarrar Adib
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
international journal of applied psychoanalytic studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.314
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1556-9187
pISSN - 1742-3341
DOI - 10.1002/aps.252
Subject(s) - dignity , empathy , politics , praxis , injustice , environmental ethics , intimidation , sociology , collective responsibility , tragedy (event) , psychoanalytic theory , law , criminology , political science , psychology , psychoanalysis , social psychology , social science , philosophy
This paper reminds the “share holders” of the international psychoanalytical enterprise of their collective responsibility towards a major social, national and moral injustice that has been grasping the attention of the remaining world for many decades. This involves the suffering of the Palestinian people who are under a brutal siege of occupation, intimidation, and disenfranchisement. Lacking a world‐endorsed nationhood, threatened in the preservation of their culture, barred from travel, used and abused by Arab regimes, and, often ignored by the international community, the Palestinians strive to save their dignity – sometimes by political praxis and at other times by violent resistance. This paper offers a description of this national/political/humanitarian tragedy in the hope of enhancing knowledge, engendering empathy, and mobilizing reparative action. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.