psychosozial

Since ancient times, people have been taking pictures of themselves and presenting themselves. What began with the imagery of the body in prehistoric times and reached a new qualitative level with the selfie cult has now reached its current climax...

This article is devoted to a deep hermeneutic analysis of the experiences of Tayo, a 47-year-old refugee who lives in Germany with his family under the uncertain residence status of tolerated stay. It first shows that tolerated stay is experienced...

This article uses film psychoanalysis (Hamburger, 2018) to examine the unconscious reception of Tori et Lokita (2023). It distinguishes between three levels of film understanding: the logical understanding of the plot, the psychological...

This article examines how former elite athletes of the GDR narratively interpret and process their sports past and its biographical consequences. Drawing on 15 narrative interviews (Schütze, 1983) with athletes of different gender identities, ages,...

This article analyzes the correlation between social participation and spatial structure in the film Tori et Lokita (2022) by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. The film chronicles the endeavors of the two protagonists to secure a permanent residence...

This article analyses the narrative and legitimising constraints of flight within the context of the European asylum regime, linking cinematic perspectives with those of migration studies and social pedagogogy. Using the 2022 Belgian film Tori and...

The article examines how belonging as a family is narrated in relationships of voluntary engagement. Using the analytical perspective of agency, as well as episodic interviews and grounded theory, the relationships narrated as family are...

The article explores the dynamics of sequential trauma among young refugees within the interplay of vulnerability, adaptation, and subjectivation. It examines how educational institutions act as spaces of resonance between functional adjustment and...

The article examines the subjectification theory concept of the resistant subject in the context of refugee migration. It argues that placing strong emphasis on the resistance of subjects is ambivalent First, references to the theoretical figure of...

This article examines anti-Muslim and anti-Islamic racism (AMIR) as a historically sedimented and contemporarily effective structure of inequality that shapes social fields on macro-, meso-, and micro-levels. Drawing on racism-theoretical and...

This article deals with the difficulties and inhibitions to address racism and race against the backdrop of Germany’s National Socialist past. After 1945 and following the UNESCO-statements on race, the assumption of a biological foundation of...

This article traces Ernst Cassirer’s path of thought and life from epistemology to cultural philosophy and anthropology. The focus is on Cassirer’s symbol-theoretical approach. For Cassirer, man is a self-organizing, culture-creating being. The...

The article conceptualises racism as a historically constituted, discursively mediated, and socially as well as psychologically embedded structure of human societies. It addresses central problem areas in contemporary racism research, including the...

This article discusses how to develop anti-racist competence among teachers and students. It begins by discussing the concept of racism, before going on to differentiate between its various forms. It then focuses on whiteness, before presenting...

The squiggle method developed by D. W. Winnicott initially served him to establish contact with children by encouraging them to articulate themselves visually. In a scribbling game, they were able to express what moved them inwardly in an...

This article examines how the relationship between anti-Semitism and racism in Germany has changed following the events of 7 October 2023. Drawing on specific protests and public debates, it illustrates how anti-Semitic and racist discourses are...

In contemporary debates, ressentiment is conceptualized as a key affective driver of social conflicts. The disclosive posture of ressentiment is characterized by persistent, self-righteous embitterment over (perceived) injustice, connected to...

Imagery and pictorial practices are extremely important for the modes of action and media representation of (animal rights) organizations with links to veganism. For example, images provide insights into the processes and structures of factory...

This article examines how belonging to the Alevi community profoundly shapes adolescent identity formation in post-migrant Germany. Focusing on Eylül, a young woman in her early twenties, it highlights how complex Alevi–Sunni relations – marked...

Aristotle believed that every living being carries the goal of self-development within itself: man is primarily a knower. As with Maslow, the prerequisite is participation in social prosperity. Self-realization requires acceptance of personal and...

The essay focuses on the relationship between solidarity and guilt from a conceptual-historical, political-theoretical and psychoanalytical perspective. Particular attention is paid to the conceptual ambiguity of guilt, whose socially integrative...