The Time of Tears

LA TRIBUNE DIMANCHE

A year after October 7, the French writer Sylvain Prudhomme visits Israel, and sketches a portrait of a wounded and divided country, at a turning point in its history.

From the article:

“Orna Reuven recounts that she has never seen so many cases of depression and anxiety among her patients: “I don’t believe a single person in this country has been truly happy for a year.” Using Melanie Klein’s terminology, she suggests that Israeli society is engrossed in a schizo-paranoid position, characterized by the inability to see the other in anything but radical terms of black and white, good and evil”.

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