Summary
Radmila Zygouris: A dog's life in a sable fur coat and other psychoanalytic cases
Can we still talk about "real" psychoanalysis? There is such a gap between various psychoanalytic currents that it is difficult to see their unity. We are in the midst of a mutation in the very field of psychoanalysis. A certain paradigm shift is taking shape, the old one is no longer recognizable, the new one is not yet legible. Some are in the Freudian dogma, or in the Lacanian dogma, and others are their own masters. For those who believe - everything works. And all that is nothing special. It is likely that some radical change will be imposed, and it will come from outside. Today, I see the need for a much more radical rebellion, a rebellion that would no longer have psychoanalysis or some psychoanalytical institution at its center, but society as a whole. It is enough to see the state of schools and hospitals, how children and lunatics are treated. Not to mention the poor. Children, lunatics, the poor and foreigners, that's already a lot. And, as if by accident, they are all helpless, helpless and without instruments. Can psychoanalysis provide them with useful instruments? Instruments for rebellion... and life? Would the discourse of analysis, that is, the involvement of analysts as such in that rebellion, bring something specific and appropriate? Radmila Ziguris, Crossing borders (conversation with Pierre Baben)
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