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Politics, psychoanalysis, and large group identity (https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2023.2234682)

  • Since Freud's contributions, psychoanalysis has devoted attention to group phenomena in the field of politics. Volkan and Kernberg stand out today for providing conceptual tools for analyzing political reality. Politicians' work has historically included a share of group manipulation, but today a strong trend towards populism is emerging from the right and the left. This offers a unique opportunity to examine in detail how leaders often promote primitive group dynamics, close to borderline personality organizations. The war in Ukraine offers an opportunity for a psychoanalytic exploration of unconscious conflicts. Some leaders' biographies and actions may offer clues, as well as group phenomena that express the need to protect a valuable identity. The current situation has generated an identity crisis in Europe and beyond. Autocratic tendencies have become stronger and we have lost leaders who sustained a more adult, less primitive European identity. The possible solutions lie in the abandonment of infantile maximalist positions and the adoption of a painful, frustrating, slow – and healthy – integrative attitude, perceiving nuances and shades of gray, both in our own group and in that which we consider Other. Psychoanalysis has the responsibility to put its knowledge at the service of society, also in politics.

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Author:Miguel Angel Gonzalez-Torres
Parent Title (English):International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 32 (No. 3, 2023), pp. 227-232.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2023
Release Date:2024/04/04
Format:PDF-scan upon request / PDF-Scan auf Anfrage
IdNo:Gonzalez-Torres_M_A_2023a
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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