What Is the Fear That Underlies This Issue of Otherness?

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Nico: What is the fear that underlies this issue of otherness? Some people say we were kind of wired to understand the world by creating differences in our mind. Nico: There are many ways that you can imagine like what this difference and what the fear brings up. If it's got let's say the political system you grew up in, invites dealing with difference by way of oppression then that's what you think, other oppress.

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About Dr. Guralnik:

Dr. Orna Guralnik is a psychoanalyst and writer, who serves on the faculty of NYU PostDoc, National Institute for the Psychotherapies, the Stephen Mitchel Center, and the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Studies in Gender & Sexuality. Her writing centers on the intersection of psychoanalysis, dissociation, and cultural studies. She has completed the filming of four seasons of the Docu-series Couples Therapy, airing on Showtime.

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