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Exigent Sadism: Austerity Logics and the Antireparative Turn by Avgi Saketopoulou
Avgi Saketopoulou; Exigent Sadism: Austerity Logics and the Antireparative Turn. Social Text 1 March 2026; 44 (1 (166)): 25–51. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-12195785 Abstract This article arises from an ethical curiosity about why individuals do not resist state violence, ethnonationalist escalations, and the rise of fascism and is driven by the urgency for theory with teeth—theory, that is, that can move… Read more
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Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture, by Heather Murray. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.
Description Asylum Ways of Seeing is a cultural and intellectual history of people with mental illnesses in the twentieth-century United States. While acknowledging the fraught, and often violent, histories of American psychiatric hospitals, Heather Murray also suggests that it is in these hospitals that patients became more intense observers: they gave more conscious consideration to institutional… Read more
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Politics of the Mind: Marxism and Mental Distress By Iain Ferguson.Â
Mental ill health has become one of the key ‘public issues’ of the 21st century. According to the World Health Organization, depression currently affects 350 million people. Politics of the Mind: Marxism and Mental Distress looks at the link between the economic and political system under which we live – capitalism – and the enormously… Read more
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Three Letters, One Crisis: Neutrality, Witnessing and Institutional Failure by David Morgan
Abstract Three letters circulating in response to the Henri Parens Symposium on Resilience in Response to Violence and War crystallise a conflict that has been developing inside psychoanalytic institutions for several years. The letters, from Psychoanalytic Voices for Palestine, from aninternational group of respondents, and from IPA President Herbert Blass, together describe an institution struggling… Read more
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April 27 [In-Person Event]On Infrastructural Thinking and Free Psychoanalytic Clinics. Raluca Soreanu.
Overview In this talk, Professor Soreanu looks at institutional struggles and forms of innovation happening in psychoanalytic free clinics Raluca Soreanu examines the institutional struggles and experimental forms of practice that emerged in psychoanalytic free clinics, situating them within a broader inquiry into the boundaries of psychoanalysis—its relation to money and the fee, and the… Read more
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April 11, 2026 – Free Book Launch Event [Portuguese] – Fanatismo, Negacionismo, Mentira : Estudos Psicanaliticos de Roosevelt Moises Smeke Cassorla
đź“• Lançamento do livro “Fanatismo, negacionismo, mentira: estudos psicanalĂticos” A Diretoria CientĂfica da SBPSP, em parceria com a Editora Blucher, convida para o lançamento do livro pĂłstumo de Roosevelt Moises Smeke Cassorla: “Fanatismo, negacionismo, mentira: estudos psicanalĂticos”. O autor examina, a partir da psicanálise, fenĂ´menos contemporâneos como radicalização, negacionismo e manipulação da verdade, articulando essas… Read more
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