PinnedJavier RiveraSadness, Our Personal Death Initiation.“You have had many sadnesses, large ones, which passed. And you say that even this passing was difficult and upsetting for you. But please…Jun 10, 2021Jun 10, 2021
Javier RiveraA Poet’s Thssorder ( Poem )The psychotherapist. Psycho-therap-ist. The psycho , the-rapist. Diagnosed me. “You have a disorder Javier.” I should have known I was…Oct 24, 2021Oct 24, 2021
Javier RiveraThe Phenomena of Suicidal Experience“ However pains may be caused-even by imagination-they themselves are no less real and no less violent on that account”. — Sigmund FreudAug 19, 2021Aug 19, 2021
Javier RiveraLove as a Tyrannical ExperienceThere is something deeply tyrannical about love or perhaps about the idea of love that denies all other possibilities of experience. Where…Aug 8, 20212Aug 8, 20212
Javier RiveraA Psychoanalytic Approach to ForgivenessHere I attempt to address the nature of forgiveness and the tension that is oscillated between two individuals. Where one has wronged the…Jul 17, 2021Jul 17, 2021
Javier RiveraMoses and Khidr (Freudian/Quranic Case Study)This work aims to explain the dialect between the conscious and the unconscious and how it reveals itself through a Quranic narrative. A…Jul 11, 2021Jul 11, 2021
