Alexithymia: when words are missing
Alexithymia is the term used to refer to people with great difficulty or inability to express and name their emotions. The word comes from Greek, it means "absence of words for emotions"...
Luciana Benigno
from Brasilia
Psychologist and psychoanalyst. Master and Graduate in Psychology from UnB. Experience in clinical care since 2010. Serving remotely since 2020.
Thinking outside the margins and writing within them
Reading Elena Ferrante's latest book, The Margins and the Saying, about pleasures...
Memory, time and body
I come across the following phrase by Tennessee Williams: Has it ever struck you that life...
The crossing of Paul B. Preciado
When I was a teenager, we met once at a friend's house to study in...
Magic in the ordinary
From everything I've heard and read about 2022, there seems to be almost consensus...
Women and forbidden notebooks
There are books that hook us by their title. Forbidden Notebook, by Alba de Céspedes – it was a...
"The Shame", by Annie Ernaux: writing so as not to be swallowed
In "The Shame" (originally published in 1997), Annie Ernaux – winner of the Nobel Prize...
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