Adrienne Harris: The next generation of psychoanalysts should understand the importance of freedom
Adrienne Harris is one of the leading personalities of Relational psychoanalysis. Among other things, she is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues journal and...
How can a psychoanalytically oriented clinician transform society?
These days, many people from all around the world are afraid of the current socio-political situation. Many educated people often express the wish to...
The Quality of Free Association as an Expression of a Relationship With a Psychoanalyst
The concept of free association is based on one-person psychology – only the analysand’s conflicts and inner dynamic are usually considered when the content...
Adrienne Harris: It is unlikely that politics is absent from your clinical practice
Adrienne Harris is one of the leading personalities of Relational psychoanalysis. Among other things, she is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues journal and...
Underground psychoanalysis in Prague – part I.
It is impossible to cover half a century of Prague underground psychoanalysis without mentioning several key moments in its development. We are a society...
Rosine Perelberg: Murder of the dead father, history and psychoanalysis
During the Otto Fenichel and His Legacy Conference in Prague in October 2017, we had a chance to meet some of the most prominent...
David Bell: Psychoanalysts‘ Role Also is to Communicate Their Understanding to the Public
David Bell is a Past President of the British Psychoanalytical Society and one of the leading experts on the relation between psychoanalysis and other disciplines:...
Rosine Perelberg: Après coup, crypt and the work of the negative
During the Otto Fenichel and His Legacy Conference in Prague in October 2017, we had a chance to meet some of the most prominent...
Death and Civilisation
“Nature rises up against us, majestic, cruel and inexorable.”
—Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
Freud’s The Future of an Illusion and Civilization and its...
Underground psychoanalysis in Prague – part II.
This is a follow-up of the article Underground psychoanalysis in Prague – part I.
Now, I would like to cover several themes which I consider to...