Volume 37 (2025), Edition 2

This paper argues that in a regressive movement something is treated as if it had not come into being. With a focus on social processes and in the form of a distinction between regressive processes in the context of radicalized and radicalizing...

The paper contains two parts: Following on from the uncanny topicality of Hannah Arendt’s observations on defensive busyness in post-war Germany (Arendt, 1989 [1950]), and with reference to works by Ernst Simmel (1978 [1946]) and Mortimer Ostow...

Fascism is characterized by a specific relationship to violence. While modernity promises a life in the absence of violence and violence must therefore always be legitimized, fascists trust in violence. In fascist ideology, violence is not something...

In this essay, from a psychoanalytic point of view, the question is investigated what can help out of conditions of hopelessness, both in the social and in the therapeutic context. The recognition of powerlessness, real loss and limitation proves to...

In a critical analysis of Alice Wexler’s book The Analyst: A Daughter’s Memoir (2022), this article traces the career of Milton Wexler (1908–2007), a lay analyst who has been forgotten in the history of psychoanalysis. Wexler was in training...

This essay offers a psychoanalytic and political reading of Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig, set against the mass protests in Iran following the death of Jina (Mahsa) Amini. Through the figure of Iman, a newly promoted investigating...