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…3 min read·Jun 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…2 min read·Oct 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 Freud4 min read·Aug 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…3 min read·Aug 8, 2021--2--2
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…3 min read·Jul 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…5 min read·Jul 11, 2021----