Shaheen Haq
Biographic Data
| ID | 1000506 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shaheen Haq |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shaheen |
| FAMILY NAME | Haq |
| SIGNATURE | HAQ S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ambedkar University Delhi |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0507-7563 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
To Disappear or to Become Relatable as Subjects in Mourning
Disappearance, or the involuntary abduction of individuals, continues to be practiced in many parts of the world. In political contexts, where torture and disappearances are carried out by state actors, there appears to be a widespread denial and suppression of suffering. Losing a loved one to disappearance is experienced by many as “going crazy.” The mourner‐survivors run the risk of serious mental, bodily and social breakdown, leaving them feel…
The Ineffable Effable
Alterity, Kinship, and Repair
This commentary engages with Lisa Koshkarian and Chris Larrald’s proposal for a “kinship object” to theorize the human- nonhuman connectedness in psychoanalysis. The authors suggest that early experiences with the maternal environment augments the need for companionship, reciprocity, and the capacity for concern paving way for an inclination toward responsibility, reparation, and recognition of the alterity of the other. It is suggested that tole…
Adieu, Elephant Mother
In June 2020, a pregnant elephant emerged from a region called “Silent Valley” in Kerala, India and died soon after consuming pineapple that had been filled with crackers by local farmers prepared
Assimilation and Transgression
This commentary engages with Jón Ingvar Kjaran and Zara Saeidzadeh's research article, "Trans* Activism in Indonesia and Iran: Working Against Misrecognition and Enhancing the Intelligibility of Trans* Subjectivities." The authors examine the conditions and form trans* activism takes in "doing" gender in Muslim-dominated societies of Indonesia and Iran. It is argued that trans* experience interacts with Islamic norms to persist in gaining intelli…
Psychoanalytic perspectives from South Asia
Not Evil, Just Sad
This commentary engages with Dhwani Shah’s clinical observations on racialized experiences of patients or people of color and of mixed race identity. The author suggests that the racialized ghosts, the unmourned losses or underinternalizations of inner representations, require a reanimating of hauntings. It is argued that racial melancholia reveals not only the problems of internalizations but more significantly an atmospheric death or disablemen…
Stray Reflections on Hate with Gandhi and Winnicott as Companions
In psychoanalysis, hate is imagined to be fundamental to the creation of the inside and outside, the self and the other. Donald Winnicott took a step further to see in hate a place of ruthless love and a mother’s capacity to tolerate without retaliation. Similarly, Gandhi too imagined hate as a place of self-other transformations through nonviolence. This paper attempts to draw connections between hate and survival, between Winnicott and Gandhi, …
Dreaming, Mourning, Transformation, and Truth
This conversation between Willow Pearson and Shifa Haq explores themes that are catalyzed by Shifa Haq’s book In Search of Return: Mourning the Disappearances in Kashmir. These themes include dreaming, mourning, transformation, and truth. Being deeply affected by trauma anchors the conversation. Creative work through art and song and its transformative power is touched upon. Psychotherapy as a transformative practice, on the level of soul work, t…
Unplanned Futures
A Lesson in Hunger
When on the eve of March 24, 2020, the Indian Prime Minister announced a countrywide lockdown to fight COVID-19, a population of 1.38 billion Indians became aware of the distance between their mout
Hidden Present, Visible Absent in the City of Dreams
Fireweed Issue 16
Fireweed
Images of Black Women Organizing
Fireweed Issue 16
Fireweed
Images of Black Women Organizing
Hidden Present, Visible Absent in the City of Dreams
A Lesson in Hunger
When on the eve of March 24, 2020, the Indian Prime Minister announced a countrywide lockdown to fight COVID-19, a population of 1.38 billion Indians became aware of the distance between their mout
Unplanned Futures
Not Evil, Just Sad
This commentary engages with Dhwani Shah’s clinical observations on racialized experiences of patients or people of color and of mixed race identity. The author suggests that the racialized ghosts, the unmourned losses or underinternalizations of inner representations, require a reanimating of hauntings. It is argued that racial melancholia reveals not only the problems of internalizations but more significantly an atmospheric death or disablemen…
Stray Reflections on Hate with Gandhi and Winnicott as Companions
In psychoanalysis, hate is imagined to be fundamental to the creation of the inside and outside, the self and the other. Donald Winnicott took a step further to see in hate a place of ruthless love and a mother’s capacity to tolerate without retaliation. Similarly, Gandhi too imagined hate as a place of self-other transformations through nonviolence. This paper attempts to draw connections between hate and survival, between Winnicott and Gandhi, …
Dreaming, Mourning, Transformation, and Truth
This conversation between Willow Pearson and Shifa Haq explores themes that are catalyzed by Shifa Haq’s book In Search of Return: Mourning the Disappearances in Kashmir. These themes include dreaming, mourning, transformation, and truth. Being deeply affected by trauma anchors the conversation. Creative work through art and song and its transformative power is touched upon. Psychotherapy as a transformative practice, on the level of soul work, t…
Alterity, Kinship, and Repair
This commentary engages with Lisa Koshkarian and Chris Larrald’s proposal for a “kinship object” to theorize the human- nonhuman connectedness in psychoanalysis. The authors suggest that early experiences with the maternal environment augments the need for companionship, reciprocity, and the capacity for concern paving way for an inclination toward responsibility, reparation, and recognition of the alterity of the other. It is suggested that tole…
Adieu, Elephant Mother
In June 2020, a pregnant elephant emerged from a region called “Silent Valley” in Kerala, India and died soon after consuming pineapple that had been filled with crackers by local farmers prepared
Assimilation and Transgression
This commentary engages with Jón Ingvar Kjaran and Zara Saeidzadeh's research article, "Trans* Activism in Indonesia and Iran: Working Against Misrecognition and Enhancing the Intelligibility of Trans* Subjectivities." The authors examine the conditions and form trans* activism takes in "doing" gender in Muslim-dominated societies of Indonesia and Iran. It is argued that trans* experience interacts with Islamic norms to persist in gaining intelli…
Psychoanalytic perspectives from South Asia
The Ineffable Effable
To Disappear or to Become Relatable as Subjects in Mourning
Disappearance, or the involuntary abduction of individuals, continues to be practiced in many parts of the world. In political contexts, where torture and disappearances are carried out by state actors, there appears to be a widespread denial and suppression of suffering. Losing a loved one to disappearance is experienced by many as “going crazy.” The mourner‐survivors run the risk of serious mental, bodily and social breakdown, leaving them feel…
Sociology (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Psychoanalysis (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)