Tangling with the four responses to ‘The entangled relational’

Dalal, Farhad

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“…The fact that a sociologist was given so much prominence in this book, troubled many group analytic colleagues because they said the thinking in this book was not sufficiently psychoanalytic. This by the way is an experience that I have had repeatedly over the years, the most recently being at a conference in 2020 in Tel Aviv, where many members of the audience were exercised by the fact that I had given prominence to a political sociologist rather than a psychoanalyst in a paper on gender (Dalal, 2020, 2021). To my mind they are exercised because of their allegiance to the psychoanalytic version of methodological individualism.…”

Section: ‘Race’ In the Group Analytic Milieumentioning

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Taking the group (really) seriously. Race, racism and group analysis

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2021

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The paper is an autobiographical account of the critical role that race and racism came to play in the writing of the book Taking the Group Seriously (1998) over 20 years ago. I will start out by telling you something about my history and early life experiences which eventually took me to the IGA in London to train as a group analyst. I will describe how and why I started to become increasingly preoccupied with the themes of race and racism which eventually led me to doing a PhD on the subject. As I delved deeper into the study I was faced with a number of theoretical and experiential difficulties. The engagement with these difficulties led to the critique of the world view that prevailed (and I would say, continues to prevail) in mainstream psychoanalysis and group analysis. I will use some of my experiences at the IGA from that time to make links with dynamics within the institution today.

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Taking the group (really) seriously. Race, racism and group analysis

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2021

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“…particular policies ' (p.19). However, he also finds himself implicated emotionally in relation to Israel and the occupation, in a state of ethical distress if you will (Dalal, 2020(Dalal, , 2021 because 'most of us feel torn by our relation to divergent, intersecting histories-in this case, histories of antisemitism, genocide and occupation ' (p.19).…”

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Book Review: The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators

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2021

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This book, written by Michael Rothberg, a Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Samuel Goetz, Chair in Holocaust Studies at the University of California, is both an eye opener and a life changer.The book is a deep and profound work ranging over a mix of ethics, politics, philosophy and psychology. Its intention is to interrogate a range of moral and psychological consequences of both, 'the legacies of violent histories and the sociopolitical dynamics that create suffering and inequality in the present ' (p.11).Although the book necessarily draws on the past, its real work is with the present-with the consequences of the past in the present; with the nature and distribution of responsibility in the present for events in a long-gone-past, much prior to the birth of those living in the present. The trajectory of the book turns out to entail a radical critique of individualistic accounts of violent histories and their consequences. It is in these sorts of ways and territories that the book turns out to be of surprising relevance to the theory and practice of psychotherapy in general and Foulkesian group analytic psychotherapy in particular.In this book Rothberg works his way through a number of violent histories and their continuing legacies in the present: the Nazi Holocaust, slavery, South African apartheid, Israel/Palestine, France/Vietnam, Turkey/Kurdistan, and with each he deepens the complexity of his analysis of morality, justice and the human condition. Rothberg's analysis is located in what Primo Levi has called the grey zone (2015). The grey zone, which requires the elaboration and extension of the well-known tidy trinity: persecutor, victim and bystander.This stark trinity had already previously been critically enriched by the addition of the idea of the 'beneficiary' by Robert Meister (2011), Bruce Robbins (2017) and others. The beneficiary being someone who comes to benefit 'innocently' from the ways that societal structures emerge out of those violent histories-for example White persons alive today in Great Britain and North America in the aftermath of slavery, and in South Africa in the aftermath of Apartheid.

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Tangling with the four responses to ‘The entangled relational’

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Taking the group (really) seriously. Race, racism and group analysis

Taking the group (really) seriously. Race, racism and group analysis

Book Review: The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators

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