Jonathan Chou // For Part I: I become inscrutable to myself For Part II: No sacrifice is excessive III. Finding a relational home In the previous section, I argued that the war metaphor engenders a derealizing self and other relation that precludes the realization of our interdependency and the ethics of nonviolence conditioned by loss….
Author: Jonathan Chou
Jonathan C Chou is a poet and fourth-year resident physician in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital. He obtained his M.S. in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University prior to attending the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. Clinically, he is interested in Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander mental health and psychodynamic psychotherapy. Drawing on reading in psychoanalytic theory, critical race theory, experimental poetry of the Asian diaspora, and Asian American literary criticism, his work across disciplines and genres explores the interface of diasporic Asian identity and mental health. His poetry chapbook, Pomes, was selected as a semifinalist for the 2022 Snowbound Chapbook Award.
Grief, Denial, and Racial Violence in the COVID-19 Pandemic (Part II)
Jonathan Chou // For Part I: I become inscrutable to myself For Part III: Finding a relational home II. No sacrifice is excessive If we are to demand that grief be made into a resource for politics, we must demand to be allowed to feel grief, to feel the way in which when I lose…
Grief, Denial, and Racial Violence in the COVID-19 Pandemic (Part I)
Jonathan Chou // This article in three parts is adapted from a critical theory essay that I wrote in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder on May 25, 2020. It strikes me as nearly beyond belief that I wrote that essay then; the words “manic defense” and “intellectualization” come to mind. It is clear to…
His Wife (No. 8847)
Jonathan Chou // His Wife (No. 8847) History from wife. The water came in through painted rain pipes. It was not paint but a daub of lard on his wife’s dress. She didn’t remove it after all.1 Things didn’t go smoothly. Furniture had to be wiped off. Elix. Iron Phos. Quin. & Strych. Smash the…