Present day suicide Killing cannot be dismissed as representing downright individual psychopathology, or demonized as the incarnation of Islamist religious devotion. Performed in front of millions of people the violent spectacles of the 21 Century merit a transdisciplinary approach. It as an impending social-ˇpsychological catastrophe threatening not only its direct victims,
Since the early days of psychoanalysis psychoanalysts are indisposed to bring together psychoanalysis with a particular world-view (Weltanschauung). Yet it is hardly possible to understand the dissemination of psychoanalysis and its development in various countries throughout the Twentieth Century without considering the conflicting intellectual, cultural and political “climates of opinion”
It is one thing to mourn the losses inflicted on Humanity over the centuries by the murderous incarnations of anti-Semitism from a depressive position. It is a totally different thing to adopt a melancholic stance to history and to counter anti-Semitism from the same paranoid position in which the
Everyone says that “the truth hurts,” but only the liar does something about it. Pathological or compulsive lying is an interesting human behavior, and can up to a point be quite spellbinding. In psychiatry it is customary to distinguish between lying that serves a clear “external” benefit, and “pathological,” habitual
The social protest in Israel that began in the summer of 2011 has had its achievements. But until now it has been more of a political lightning rod and social shock-absorber than a challenge to the existing political order, whose single purpose is to prevent the Israelis from truly mourning
Una reciente declaración de los científicos cognitivos sobre memorias recuperadas lanza dudas engañosas sobre uno de los apuntalamientos de la psicología Freudiana, mientras socava la lucha contra violencia sexual cometida contra niños. Por Eran Rolnik / Haaretz Nov. 1, 2014>> PDF>>
The Bad, The Mad and the Functional: One Anti-Semitism or Many? Psychoanalytic practice taught us to perceive archaic defense mechanisms and transference enactments not only as pathological, but also as developmentally functional and communicative. The propensity for regression, scapegoating, projective-identification, and generalization cannot be “banned” from language and from public
Although we cannot expect the historiography of psychoanalysis to tell us “how much political reality psychoanalysis can bear,” there are chapters in the history of our science which provide insights regarding that frontier where various conceptions of analytic theory meet the realm of politics, social aggression, and ideology. One such
Great letter-writer that he was, the father of psychoanalysis corresponded with a number of colleagues in pre-state Israel. To one of them, Dr. Yochanan Lewinson, Freud wrote about his preoccupation with the supernatural and telepathy. His letter to Lewinson is published here, for the first time read full paper>>
Freud’s path to acceptance in France was even less straightforward than in England and America, and “Vocabulaire de la psychanalyse” (The Language of Psychoanalysis ), published in 1967, was meant to help remedy this. The fact that its authors, Jean Laplanche and Jean-Bertrand Pontalis, were born in the period between