Reflection or action: And never the twain shall meet

Hinshelwood, R. D.

doi:10.1002/ppi.1401

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“…Hinshelwood struggles to imagine a way in which psychoanalysis might fulfil its assumed radical potential. With pessimism written into its title, “Reflection or Action—and never the twain shall meet”, he frames the problem as the “need to find models of interaction between social relations and psychodynamics” (Hinshelwood, 2019 p175). He perceives a shared interest between psychoanalysis and socialism in overcoming “alienation” and “false consciousness”, where analytic insights, delivered intact into the right hands, could help combat the malevolent power of right‐wing propaganda: “as psychoanalysts”, he writes, “we could give to political debate an awareness of those anxieties that are played upon…” (ibid p183).…”

Section: Socially‐engaged Psychoanalysismentioning

confidence: 99%

What would Freud have made of it? Notes on a “normal pathological organization” within contemporary psychoanalysis

Kemp

Pinto²

2023

Appl Psychoanal Studies

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Psychoanalytic discourse in relation to the situation in historic Palestine is subject to both ideologically‐based and anxiety‐driven inhibitions and restrictions that conflict with the discipline’s claim to be able to “stay with” difficult issues, to “think the unthinkable”. This situation is understood as a social pathology, and its impacts are explored through a literature review (explaining the paper’s length). It considers works that directly seek to protect Zionism from its critics, and texts whose purpose is to demonstrate the relevance of psychoanalytic concepts to the study of social injustice. The qualities of this contemporary discourse are considered alongside Freud’s comments on the conditions for freedom of thought within psychoanalysis, and the example he provided in his comments on politics and society. Rather than a psychoanalytic contribution to understanding an issue of public concern, the paper attempts to describe aspects of psychoanalytic culture itself. It aims to facilitate deeper reflection amongst clinicians, on both an individual and collective level, regarding their contemporary engagement with coloniality and the social responsibilities of the psychoanalytic community.

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Section: Socially‐engaged Psychoanalysismentioning

confidence: 99%

What would Freud have made of it? Notes on a “normal pathological organization” within contemporary psychoanalysis

Kemp

Pinto²

2023

Appl Psychoanal Studies

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“…These articles are followed by a talk. This section was introduced a few years ago with a contribution from Bob Hinshelwood (2017), and offers readers the opportunity to read a contribution from a significant colleague in the field talking, as it were, directly to us. In editing these contributions, we endeavour to do justice to them as a published article, while retaining the original tone of the talk.…”

Section: This Issuementioning

confidence: 99%

Editorial

Tudor

Minikin

Pavón‐Cuéllar

2022

ppi

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We are delighted to be writing this editorial-the first under the journal's new owners, the Black, African and Asian Therapy Network (BAATN); and the first as a new co-editing team. For my part (Keith), having edited Psychotherapy and Politics International (PPI) for the past 10 years, I am delighted and relieved to welcome Karen and David as co-editors-ngā mihi mahana ki a kōrua | warm greetings to you both-and to say that I am looking forward to handing over the editorial reins to them during the rest of this year, at the end of which I will be stepping down as editor. For my part (Karen), I am looking forward to working with Keith and David this year. I am also relieved to have Keith's support and experience as a dear friend and colleague and am very much looking forward to collaborating with David. I hope this will be an innovative time for the journal, a time to encourage and support new authors and editors, whilst also gaining the benefit of having experience and some familiarity as a support. For my part (David), I hope to help maintain the rhythm of work that Keith has sustained all these years, always respecting the freedom, originality, and pluralism that characterises this journal. The crucial thing for me is that the journal remains open to critical and politically engaged articles that find little or no place in other periodicals on psychology and psychotherapy. I would like to include more texts from outside the English-speaking world, especially from traditionally marginalised groups and regions in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. In any case, I trust that all this will be possible with the invaluable support of Karen and Keith.

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“…This point is also somewhat topical as we see certain tensions between the old and the young as expressed in the demographics of voting patterns, both in last year's UK European referendum, in which the majority of older people voted to leave Europe (60% of those aged 65+) while the majority of younger people voted to remain in Europe (73% of those 18-24) (British Broadcasting Company, 2016), for reflections on which, see Hinshelwood (2017); and in the US presidential election in which 53% of voters aged 65+ voted Republican, while 55% of those aged 18-29 voted Democrat (The Washington Post, 2016). In this respect, I am particularly delighted that we have contributions to this special issue from all ages: from two in their early twenties to two in their early eighties.…”

Section: On Ageingmentioning

confidence: 99%