Vol 34 (3) 2016
On Racism from a Psychoanalytic Point of View – Pat Jacops
Identity on the Run: Psychoanalysis as “a possible Profession” in an unbearable Situation – Amar El- Omari
The Immigrant and Singularity: An “odd” Couple? – Amar El- Omari
A Foreign Land to come Home to: On Migration and Psychoanalysis – Lene Beelen
On Racism from a Psychoanalytic Point of View
This paper focuses on Freud's interpretation of racism and xenophobia as described in his essay "A Comment on Anti-Semitism" and in his "Letter to the Editor of Time and Tide". The psychobiographical method Jean-Louis Maisonneuve uses in his work L'extrême droite sur...
Identity on the Run: Psychoanalysis as “a possible Profession” in an unbearable Situation
To speak of fleeing presupposes an active choice: the subject driven by a survival instinct to make strategic use of its defence mechanisms. But what of the case where flight is une carte forcée driven by real danger forcing the subject faced with death to choose...
The Immigrant and Singularity: An “odd” Couple?
Migration is currently under investigation. On the one hand questions are raised as to whether immigrants are assimilating the norms and values of their new country quickly enough. On the other hand, in a clinical context, it is observed that mental illness when...
A Foreign Land to come Home to: On Migration and Psychoanalysis
This paper examines what psychoanalysis can say about migration, and what it means for psychotherapeutic work with migrants and refugees. Topics addressed include trauma, mourning, depression, melancholia and identity formation. The refugee or migrant faces not only...