psychosozial

The discussion of antifeminism as a central component of far-right ideology and co-motive in right-wing terrorist attacks is still young. It is due to feminist interventions in work and research on the far-right. The recent debate often implicitly...

In the extended discussion of Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem it is strange to observe how much the publications of Bettina Stangneth (2011) ignored. This author had type-records available, documenting Eichmann’s position long before he...

This article analyzes the media coverage and discourses on the right-wing terrorist attacks in Munich at the Oktoberfest in 1980 and at the Olympia-Shopping-Center in 2016. With a critical discource analyse we ask how relatives and survivors appear...

The becoming self is affected by the other down to its very core. The instinctual life is embedded in socio-cultural dynamics. The psychic reality is deeply linked to the outer reality. Individuation and socialisation are two sides of the mental...

This overview article is intended to present the results of psychoanalytic-pedagogical publications. These are contributions that are dedicated to current crisis events and date back to 2015 at the earliest. Various databases (Fachportal Pädagogik,...

Social work is case work and case stories can be told in a narrative way. But what does it mean if social workers do not develop narrations while talking about their cases? This question is addressed in this article by way of case studies on dealing...

The opportunity-use models of the effects of teaching describe school learning as the cognitive, motivational, and emotional engagement with learning opportunities by students. In this context, joy and fun are considered positive emotions that...

This article deals with the phenomenon of a solution-orientation in psychoanalytically oriented seminars on understanding in higher education and in the key discourse of psychoanalytic pedagogy. Based on sketches of the current development of the...

Various publications on the professionalization of social work refer to the crisis-like nature of practical professional action. Professional action in social work is characterized by encounters with the unknown or ambiguous, for which no...

The article shows that the concept of crisis appears with different connotations in social psychiatric theory and its community psychiatric practice. While »crisis« is repeatedly negotiated as a dialectical process of precarious experience with...

Reactions to the uncovering of (sexual) violence in educational institutions typically unfold in a split between doubt and denial on the one hand and support for dealing with the issue on the other. However, the now numerous studies on the emergence...

Religion is at the center of gender political contestations. In the background is a new anti-feminist consensus on gender rights; at the same time, rights are being instrumentalized to justify racist policies. This raises the question of the form,...

Muslim women in Austria are increasingly struggling with hostility. The phenomenon of conversion to Islam in the Western world has received increased attention in both academia and the mass media. Female converts were often at the centre of the...

Metaphors of religious criticism are no less colorful and diverse than the metaphors of religion. Moreover, they are often related to metaphors of religion, especially with regard to their specific processes of meaning-formation. The meaning of a...

Freud’s psychoanalytic critique of religion is one of the great, though highly controversial, achievements of psychological enlightenment. Despite its theoretical biases and errors, its rather narrow empirical basis, and its apparent...

The article explores the question of why religion inherently involves a demarcation against »the other«. Orthodox and fundamentalist forms of religiosity, for instance, often regard all those who do not adhere to their narrow dogma as unbelievers....

This article argues for a multi-perspective analysis of current antisemitism, which systematically researches not only attitudes and but also antisemitic actions and the perspective of those affected. To this end, some results of an analysis of...

The following article presents selected results of a research project on anti-Semitism and Jewish perspectives in Hamburg. The data material consists of group discussions conducted in 2020 with Jewish Hamburg residents of different generations,...

Hannah Arendt’s major essay »Eichmann in Jerusalem« summarized the results of the trial against the organizer of the Nazi extermination of the Jews, Adolf Eichmann, with the formula about the banality of evil. With this formula, Arendt argued...

The article explores psychoanalytic research of contemporary anti-Semitism, emphasizing the transgenerational transmission of trauma within families of Holocaust survivors. In this context, it analyzes a disruption that occurred in an encounter...