Social Reality

Sanville, Jean

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“…By and large, psychoanalysis has shown little interest in cultural and social reality and it is only recently that as Janine Puget remarked in a 1999 panel on social reality, it has ‘begun to take on the challenge of extending analytical theories and practice to include the socio‐cultural space’ (Puget in Sanville 2000, p. 998). We can see the same trend at work in analytical psychology with Henderson's concept of the cultural unconscious and Singer and Kimbles’ work on cultural complexes (Singer & Kimbles 2004).…”

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Through the Iron Curtain: analytical space in post‐Soviet Russia

Connolly¹

2006

J Analytical Psychology

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This paper discusses the experience of working as an analyst in post-totalitarian Russia in order to explore some of the general theoretical and clinical issues involved in working in a different cultural and linguistic context, and the particular problems encountered in the Russian cultural context. It describes how the Soviet regime worked actively to create a new totally collective mentality through the destruction of individual differences and the collectivization of private space, and the effects this produced in the individual and collective psyche. It examines the difficulties encountered when working with Russian analysands in creating and maintaining the setting, in preserving boundaries, in creating analytical space, and in working with certain particular transference-countertransference dynamics. It focuses on the contrast between my own Western experience of space and the spatial experience of the analysands, and describes the process of helping them use analytical space to interiorize and create a new experience of psychic space. The paper uses dreams to illustrate some of these dynamics, and the particular psychic problems associated with the traumas created by totalitarian regimes.

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confidence: 99%