Volume 35 (2023), Edition 1

The article starts with the background of Freud’s text and the problem of applying psychoanalytic knowledge to collective phenomena such as violence and war. Freud’s analysis of the relationship between violence and law is discussed in the...

Times of peace have turned into times of war. This has a disintegrative effect on our entire culture. The current events of war and its effects on society are examined using three concepts from psychoanalytic and group analytical points of view. A...

The paper wants to make a contribution to understanding turning points in time. It is not readily clear how time can turn at all and whereto it may turn. Objective time never turns, it only advances. On the other hand, subjective time may turn,...

The article examines the life of Sigmund Freud’s grandson Anton Walter Freud. After reconstructing his youth, his family relations in Vienna as well as the events that led to the family’s emigration to England, and after describing the very...

The developments of the last 20 years suggest that the general understanding of sexualized violence and sexualized power in society has improved. At the same time, it has become clear that the barriers to our ability to recognize sexual abuse and...

The text provides a deconstruction of the Monroe myth via a review of Anne Carson’s play Norma Jeane Baker of Troy, which reaches far into the imagination about her private life. This also affects Monroe’s attempts to interpret long-standing...