Much has been said about the intellectual ferment that characterized late 19 century and early 20 century Vienna. Of particular interest are the intersections between the various circles that operated in Vienna at that time. Having done some work on two of the most radical currents that operated in Vienna,
Dying Together: Towards a Psychoanalytic Understanding of Political Self-Sacrifice The paper delineates a conceptual framework by which a historical- social phenomenon such as suicide terrorism could be understood in terms of its psychological meaning. It offers few psychoanalytically informed observations on the role of trauma and on the psychic dynamics
Keynote paper in the meeting of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society to mark its 80 Anniversary view lecture in Hebrew>>
Admittedly, there is something uncanny about anti-Semitism. Regardless of the most meticulous historical representation, and in spite of its deep inscription on modernity, even when it is rubbed against one’s nose – anti-Semitism keeps claiming the place of a phantom, or a metaphor, in the mind; as if shielded from
podcast of a lecture in the conference “Why Anti-semitism” organized by the Hellenic Psychoanalytic , Society and Goethe Institute, Athens, March 2014 link to the lecture in English>>
Selbstaufopferung als politische Waffen Die Analyse von individuell frei gewählten oder kollektiv geplanten Zuiziden von Liebenden (denken Sie z.B an Kleist) oder Gruppenmitgliedern (Sekten, Masada etc.) begleitet das psychoanalytische Denken seit seinen Anfängen. Trotz des Unterschiedes zwischen der Verbundenheit von Liebenden, die den gemeinsamen Freitod wählen und dem politischen Mord
Jean-Michel Quinodoz’ book sprung out of the experience of reading Freud in a “closed group” setting. Not only has this experience been shared by analysts for more then a century, it is still considered one of the pillars of the psychoanalytic training program. In what, then, are psychoanalysts in our
A vast outpouring of psychoanalytic literature has been devoted to sexual perversion. Mental symbolization is likewise one of the most contentious topics in our field. Gregorio Kohon’s paper is, to the best of my knowledge, the first to explore these two well-established objects of analytic investigation by juxtaposing them with
paper presented to the Israel Psychoanalytic Society read the paper in Hebrew>>
paper read in the Israel Psychoanalytic Society read full paper in Hebrew>>