Living in War with Darya Navidi

This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Darya Navidi, a psychoanalyst and writer working at the intersection of clinical practice, migration, and cultural inquiry. Speaking from Iran, Navidi shares the raw and ongoing experience of war. She dissects the effects of international and internal violence on the Iranian people and what it looks like to read, write, practice, and live when you cannot guarantee a tomorrow for yourself, your family, and or your patients.

"Iran is not a puzzle waiting to be completed. It is a bag of broken turquoise tiles. And to live here, in this moment, is to resist the urge to force these fragments into coherence too quickly—to remain with their disjunction, their incompatibility, their refusal to settle." — Darya Navidi, "A Bag of Broken Tiles: Report from Tehran" ROOM 6.26