Del Sentimiento de No Estar del Todo: Reply to Csillag and Orfanos

Abstract

This response presents associations elicited by commentaries from Csillag and Orfanos (this issue), on the author’s paper discussing issues of language, race, and social class in an immigrant clinical dyad. The author describes ways in which these issues were experienced during the process of writing and sharing the original essay, provides some reflections on the state-dependent nature of epistemological truth in clinical enactments, and offers, through biographical fragments, an example of how the principles organizing our psychic experience inform and are informed by our cultural context.