Volume 47 (2024), Edition 3

The increasing and partially irreversible destruction of the environment is a fact. To acknowledge that requires remembering and mourning. Mourning must be accompanied by productive forgetting and forgiveness without a »theater of pardon«. Then...

After a brief discussion of the concept of scientific neutrality, Donna Orange’s concept of ›radical ethics‹ will be presented against the background of the ›ethical turn‹ in psychoanalysis – in which Emmanuel Levinas’ thinking of...

In view of the global rise in CO2 emissions, despite all the warnings and diverse global efforts to achieve the necessary transformations, many people are losing hope of a life worth living in the future. This can lead to paralysis and apathy as...

Drawing from the observation that our response to climate change fails to match its potential threat, this study investigates the mechanisms by which individuals defend themselves against this daunting reality and their perceived sense of...

In an attempt to build a bridge between activism and psychotherapeutic, psychoanalytical and sociological science, activism is defined, insight into protest research is given, various new climate justice groups in Germany since 2018 are presented...

The climate crisis is also a narrative crisis. For how can the collapse of the biosphere be linked to our everyday actions; how can we talk about the complex natural processes that take place without a stringent chain of events but are of planetary...

This article analyses the connection between the climate crisis and different concepts of humanity. Sociological, psychoanalytical, evolutionary-biological, and philosophical concepts of man are discussed. They play a central role in the various...

Although substance-related addictions, especially alcohol dependence, have one of the highest prevalence rates of mental illness, casuistics of addicted patients and theoretical reflections on addiction are rare in psychoanalytic publications. In...