As American as Apple Pie: Anatomy of an Event

Abstract

This essay explores many different dimensions of the event of September 11, 2001. Events are not easy to define or delimit, in time, space, causality or consequence. In this essay, I reflect on, and revisit, the impact of 9/11 on me as an Indian-American immigrant, and a psychoanalyst living and practicing in New York City. I examine the ways in which the event has changed for me over time, and how it has changed me, and my relationship to the culture at large, over the last two decades.