Volume 46 (2023), Edition 1

The article draws on conceptualizations of political and social action and resistance, especially with Hannah Arendt. Its aim is to examine the social-psychological backgrounds of indignation, resistance and political agency. First, the individual...

The text pleads for a change of perspective on a migrant historiography and a turn towards a migrant-situated knowledge in order to be able to overcome racism in the future. It also problematizes the current boom of an identitarian anti-racism,...

Starting from the critical-psychological concept of personal agency, this article develops the foundations and dimensions of a concept of collective agency. On the basis of our own research on Antisemitism and Classism, different forms of...

The article discusses the distinction between »restrictive« and »generalized capacity to act« developed in critical psychology with regard to (wage) workers. The central thesis is that in order to analyze political agency directed at society,...

This translation of the Chapter »The internal establishment« from Paul Hoggetts book The Emotional Life and the Politics of Welfare (2000) covers group dynamics even in political groups with progressive-emancipatory purposes. Drawing on...

This paper traces the development of a group political engagement that evolved in the aftermath of the 1968 upheaval in West Germany. Out of a student initiative, a grassroots work with the inhabitants of a precarious district of a West German city...

Not only the achievements, but also serious boundary violating run through the history of psychoanalysis. How do you become the »perpetrator«, what »deeds« are involved? Using the example of the psychoanalytical training situation, dilemmas and...