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Homayounpour and Movahedi (2012) examine the impact of second-language use in psychoanalytic settings from the perspective of analysands. The two authors question what extent speaking in a second language impacts the self and psychoanalytic process. If words can convey how one expresses themself to the outside world, what does that mean for those who are speaking in a language that is not their mother tongue? This research integrates cultural analysis into the psychoanalytic setting and demonstrates the importance of thinking critically about language and culture in psychoanalysis.

“although the chador as a social object is embedded in the sphere of culture and politics, in its psychic dimensions it carries multiple meanings and functions in women’s (as well as men’s) individual psychic economies.”-absolutely, there is meaning behind the object, which is then interpreted and associated with certain connotations depending on the context and who is viewing the object“It is a complex entity located within the public and private contexts at varying intra- and interpsychic axes.”-particularly, for Western individuals that only see things through their lens and thus as a fo