Maternal Ethics and the Therapeutic Work of Protecting Open Futures

Corpt, Elizabeth A.

doi:10.1080/07351690.2017.1334450

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“…The matricial space (Chetrit-Vatine 2014) of the therapeutic endeavor highlights the centrality of emotionally meaningful, responsible caregiving. The importance of open futures and receptive listening is emphasized within this maternal vein (Corpt 2017, 2018), and prioritization of others’ suffering is counseled (Goodman and Severson 2016). Wilson (2020) writes of an ethic of warm hospitality that includes “innkeeping,” with metaphorical and material elements that require close attentiveness to the status of both the clinician’s and the patient’s desire, and their dynamic interaction.…”

Section: Social Justice and The Ethics Of Psychoanalysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Justice Activism as Interpretation in a Loewaldian World

Rao

2023

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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At a time when many questions are arising about the nexus between psychoanalysis and social justice, the writings of Hans Loewald open an avenue for broadened conceptualizations of psychoanalytic activity and the role of interpretation within it. The pursuit of social justice, it is argued, is integral to psychoanalytic ethics, and the relation between activists and society can be formulated in Loewaldian terms. Using Loewald, and considering case examples from social justice informed advocacy, direct action, and protest speech in AIDS activism, social justice activism can be understood as a spontaneously emergent psychoanalytic interpretation delivered by activists to their social surround, effectively accomplishing multiple forms of therapeutic action. The therapeutic action includes a working through in two phases of the negative social transference, a concept proposed here to elaborate a mechanism for the transformation, through the interpretive aspects of activism, of psychic material directed toward marginalized subjects and those expressing marginalized subjective positions. Resistance to social justice activism is examined using the forms of resistance identified by Freud.

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Section: Social Justice and The Ethics Of Psychoanalysismentioning

confidence: 99%