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Identification & Idealization: What is the Group to You?
Reading Freud's "Group Psychology" in the context of psychoanalytic training and formation
 • Naomi Washer
On the possibilities of transformation
A reading of Lauren Elkin's novel, Scaffolding
 • Naomi Washer
Doing less in psychoanalysis
A reflection on Rebecca Zlotowski's film "A Private Life"
 • Naomi Washer
Questions I was asked in 2025 about psychoanalysis
Okay, just two questions I want to share, but they have everything to do with why I am in formation as a Freudian Lacanian psychoanalyst.
 • Naomi Washer
I'm the kind of person who. . .
re-introducing Process Notes for the new year
 • Naomi Washer
"Syntax [...] is something to be worn like a black velvet dress"
"Syntax ... is something to be worn like a black velvet dress"
 • Naomi Washer
"Say more about the process of becoming..."
I’m back home in New York, the MARGINALIA tour complete for now.
 • Naomi Washer
"Could it have been different?"
I’m currently on tour with my new book, Marginalia: an autobiography.
 • Naomi Washer
On Valeria Luiselli's "Faces in the Crowd"
"a note placed in a novel at the right time"
 • Naomi Washer
Process Notes
Process Notes
Process Notes is a space for reflections on psychoanalysis and subjectivity, and psychoanalytic perspectives on the experience of reading.
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