Volume 37 (2025), Edition 1

There is a cultural war over the question of identity going on within western societies. Despite all appeals to human dignity and equality there is no doubt that people even in liberal democracies are still discriminated, for racist reasons, to be...

My topic is the prism of the meanings of victimhood and the associated psychodynamics of anxieties and defensive movements. From the denial of Jewish victims after 1945, their frustration and shame and the silence of both victims and perpetrators, I...

After years of having been tabooed, racism has returned to everyday life in Germany in a clearly noticeable way. It had never completely disappeared, but now racist incidents, some of them fatal, have increased.

The article differentiates five perspectives from which polarities are important in psychoanalytic theory and practice. The first seems to be the most obvious, namely to understand polarity as an antagonistic opposition. To assert this as the basic...

In her novel Schrödinger’s GRRRL, Marlen Hobrack shows us aspects of fluid subjectivity using the example of her protagonist Mara. Using excerpts from the novel, we can trace how the new ego-technical media (Sloterdijk) – selfies and social...