A year ago, I moved from New York City back to Montevideo, Uruguay, the country where I am originally from. Yet the Montevideo I returned to was not the same city I had left thirteen years earlier, and I, too, was no longer the same person. One afternoon, while walking through its streets, rediscovering places…
From Negative Mirroring to Tradition, Creativity, and Innovation: Group as Pharmakós In ancient Greek mythology, Pharmakós suggests both remedy and poison. Pharmakós is both the instrument of change, the remedy, and at the same time the entity destroyed or poisoned by that change. Pharmakós has the power to transform. Negative mirroring is a characteristic of…
This entry provides an overview of liberatory psychoanalysis. The introduction responds to common objections, defines the field and emphasizes its explicitly political orientation, including its alignment with liberation movements and its use of their perspective to critique traditional psychoanalytic theories and practices. The text then traces the historical development of liberatory psychoanalysis within and beyond…
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