This article is the last of our three part series about Underground psychoanalysis in Prague (part one and part two). In the traumatizing conditions of political violence, the importance of the „everyday narcissism“ of the analysts often overpowered their „analytic narcissism“ (Puget, 2002); associated mainly with their work on uncovering the unconscious. It is possible that […]
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 be most significant in the formation of Prague psychoanalysis. The Hungarian writer, György Konrád, once wrote (2009): Some time ago, a butcher lived in our village. He had a house […]
It is impossible to cover half a century of Prague underground psychoanalysis without mentioning several key moments in its development. We are a society with a history of many new beginnings and traumatic endings and with a persistent striving to build a stable external environment necessary for a prospering psychoanalysis. My paper is by generational experience: I am […]
