Three fundamental difficulties in the application of psychoanalysis on politics

Authors

  • Emilio Modena

Abstract

Based on a short discription of the psychoanalytic work, there is a discussion of the dialectics between subjectiv and objectiv factors. There are three main difficulties trying to observe reality and to transfer psychoanalytic knowledge on politics: Definition of the interplay of subjectiv and accidental factors, inclusion of the unconsciousness and defining the focus of contradiction in the special historical situation.

Keywords Dialectics; Interplay of subjectivity and accidental factors; Focus of contradiction; Psychoanalysis and politics; Subjectivity; Unconsciousness

Author Biography

Emilio Modena

Emilio Modena, geboren 1941 in Neapel, seit 1950 in Zürich; Arzt und Psychoanalytiker in freier Praxis, Mitbegründer des selbstverwalteter Psychoanalytischen Seminars Zürich und der Stiftung für Psychotherapie und Psychoanalyse, Dozent und Supervisor; zahlreiche Publikationen in den Schwerpunktbereichen Psychoanalyse und Gesellschaft, psychoanalytische Ausbildung, Aggression und Narzissmus.

Korrespondenz: Ausstellungsstrasse 25, 8005 Zürich, Schweiz.

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Published

2006-04-01

How to Cite

Modena, E. (2006). Three fundamental difficulties in the application of psychoanalysis on politics. Psychotherapie-Wissenschaft, (2), 84–88. Retrieved from https://psychotherapie-wissenschaft.info/article/view/326

Issue

No. 2 (2006): Psychotherapie Forum 14/2 (veröffentlicht bei Springer Wien New York)

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Special Issue

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