Psychoanalyse im Widerspruch

Supervision is a process that is supposed to promote understanding, interpretations and explanations are to arise. In a predominantly cognitive understanding of supervision, this is a process that is based on the knowledge and experience of the...

A culture of learning from mistakes, as an individual and institutional quality criterion, requires a culture of dialogue that allows for the perception of conflict and undesirable events in therapy, training, and institutional contexts, and for...

The question of the relationship between theory and practice arises in many scientific disciplines, especially in the human sciences. It becomes even more acute in areas where psychoanalysis is taught and studied, such as in university psychology...

In this article, we examine the possibilities and tasks of psychoanalytic university teaching leaning on the International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) Berlin as example. We argue that academic psychoanalysis should primarily convey a specific...

Shame is one of the most challenging emotions that can arise in the psychotherapeutic process. Due to its contagious nature, it is often observed that shame affects transfer from the therapy session to the supervision and becomes noticeable in the...

Theory- and Practice-Group (TPG) is a special Setting embedded in Heidelberger Institute of Psychotherapy’s (HIP) curriculum for qualifying as Therapist for Depth Psychology. Experiences and appraisal are described in gonzo fashion, including...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

My topic is the prism of the meanings of victimhood and the associated psychodynamics of anxieties and defensive movements. From the denial of Jewish victims after 1945, their frustration and shame and the silence of both victims and perpetrators, I...

In her novel Schrödinger’s GRRRL, Marlen Hobrack shows us aspects of fluid subjectivity using the example of her protagonist Mara. Using excerpts from the novel, we can trace how the new ego-technical media (Sloterdijk) – selfies and social...

The article differentiates five perspectives from which polarities are important in psychoanalytic theory and practice. The first seems to be the most obvious, namely to understand polarity as an antagonistic opposition. To assert this as the basic...

After years of having been tabooed, racism has returned to everyday life in Germany in a clearly noticeable way. It had never completely disappeared, but now racist incidents, some of them fatal, have increased.

There is a cultural war over the question of identity going on within western societies. Despite all appeals to human dignity and equality there is no doubt that people even in liberal democracies are still discriminated, for racist reasons, to be...

On the occasion of Sándor Ferenczi’s 150th birthday, the Ferenczi 150th Anniversary International Conference was held in Budapest in June 2023. The conference report cursorily highlights the lectures and forums of the conference. In addition to a...

This paper examines Sándor Ferenczis influence on the understanding of the psychoanalytic situation. Continuing Freud, he made it a basic concept of psychoanalysis in Development of Psychoanalysis of 1924, together with Rank. Freud had thus...