The impossibility of freedom: From psychoanalytical conceptions to political objections

This chapter provides an overview of psychoanalytical conceptions on freedom is provided along with certain political objections. Urukagina's code has been widely hailed as the first recorded specimen of government reform, seeking to achieve a higher level of freedom and equality. The chapter encounters conical shape associated with freedom in Ancient Rome: pileus. Liberty embodies the privileges of independence, freedom, on the other hand, the rights of belonging. To top it all off, in countries with authoritarian regimes, quarantine-like regulations that are dictated by the COVID-19 pandemic created an opportunity for restricting freedom of speech and freedom of peaceful assembly. Ego is neither able to control passion nor the external world in the name of reason or freedom. Through a newly won freedom from the constraints of fantasy, the course of a psychoanalysis should enable the person to approach reality from a different perspective, to pass from the restrictions of an unconscious internal reality to the possibilities offered by whatever may happen. Consistent with his aim, Freud saw freedom as an illusion and redefined it as the recognition of necessity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Robert K. Beshara, Freud and Said: Contrapuntal Psychoanalysis as Liberation Praxis

Chapter 3 presents an apotheosis of sorts, in which Beshara works through Said's I Orientalism i within and beyond the text, noting how 'Freud (who undoubtedly influenced Said) is, more or less, repressed in the text' itself (p. 113). Third, while Beshara positions his work as a critique of racialized capitalism, he seems to return to culture as the primary site of critique, stating for example that '[c]ultural resistance is essential in contrapuntal psychoanalysis' (p. 128). In chapter 2, "Beginnings", Beshara accomplishes this with style and aplomb, tracing Freud's influence on Said's work, the namesake of this chapter. [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Psychoanalysis & History is the property of Edinburgh University Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)

Hermeneutic Imagination: Drawing Out Freud

Natalija Subotincic drinks from the well of Surrealism, in her case suffused with in-depth drawing research into Sigmund Freud's consulting room and study and the precise placement of objects within them. This has led her to draw with objects in space as she constructs her own ‘museum’ cabinet of curiosities. Emeritus Professor of Architectural History and Theory Alberto Pérez-Gómez takes us on a fascinating journey of discovery through her world. Copyright © 2022 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Psychological Counseling during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Clinical Thoughts and Implications Arisen from an Experience in Italian Schools.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, I worked as a psychologist in two schools: a comprehensive school (an institution including three school levels: kindergarten, primary school, and secondary school of first grade) and a Provincial Center for the Education of Adults (CPIA). This paper provides some clinical considerations that arose from this personal experience, focusing on practical implications for school psychological counseling. Among the main points, I noticed that students were eager to disclose information about themselves in a professional space, were not afraid of being ridiculed by classmates for attending the service, and spontaneously used artistic media. Using English (a non-native language for both the Italian psychologist and the CPIA student) emerged as an added value for immigrant students who were not fluent in Italian. This allowed them to attend the psychology service and share their thoughts and feelings despite their difficulties with Italian. In conclusion, psychological counseling services should be implemented in all schools and across all school levels worldwide to favor psychological well-being and spread a culture prone to asking for psychological help. Moreover, using a non-native language might be helpful when working with international students. Finally, sandplay therapy (and art) might be an additional option to verbal counseling in school settings.

Viral Law: Life, Death, Difference, and Indifference from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19.

What is viral law? In order to being my discussion, I note that the last two years have been extremely difficult to understand and that we, meaning those who have lived through the pandemic, have struggled to make sense. Thus, I make the argument that the virus has impacted upon not only the individual's ability to make sense in a world where every day routines have been upended, but also social and political structures that similarly rely on repetition to continue to function. According to this thesis, Covid-19 is more than simply a biological organism, but also a cultural virus that undermines the organisation of social, political, and economic systems and requires new ways of thinking about how we might move forward into a post-Covid world. In the name of beginning this project of making sense of Covid-19, I track back in history to the comparable reference point of the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-1920 and, in particular, a reading of Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle, which the founder of psychoanalysis wrote in the shadow of the virus. In reading Freud's attempt to write a psychology of death in the context of this funereal period of history, I argue that he set out first, a mythological theory of viral law concerned with the death drive, before turning to second, a techno-scientific, biological theory of the same (viral) law characterised by microbial immortality. Beyond this exploration of Beyond the Pleasure Principle, in the third part of the article I turn to a reading of Lacan's interpretation of Freud's work, where viral law becomes a story of cybernetics and nihilistic mechanisation. Here, perfect mechanisation, and the endless oscillation between message and noise, looks a lot like living death. Finally, I take up Derrida's critique of Jacob's molecular biology and, by extension, Freud's theory of microbial immorality, that he thinks privileges an idea of repetitive sameness and opens up a space for cultural politics concerned with immunity against otherness. Derrida's key point here is that this biological fantasy ignores the reality of viral sex that enables evolution to happen. What this means is that the other, even in its microbial form, is ever present, and that we must recognise the importance of difference to the possibility of social, political, and economic change.

Writings and Readings of the Pandemic: The Shadows Left Behind.

A pandemic's reach is broad, deep, layered-both as an infectious agent and as the psychological force that will be explored by the author in this paper. The disorder it creates and the sorrow it leaves in its wake can be found in traces of its existence that remain in written works generated in the time after the pandemic is thought to be over. The author draws from creative texts by imaginative writers and Freud written in the period after the 1918-1920 pandemic. This paper is intended to create an experience in reading that introduces ways in which we can look for the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic in our own writing.

‘Psychoanalysis is one more way of taking people seriously’: Adam Phillips in conversation with Emma Williams

Adam Phillips is a leading psychoanalyst and author. Phillips was educated at Clifton College and studied English Literature at Oxford University. He trained to be a psychoanalyst at the Institute of Child Psychology. Across the course of his professional career, he has worked at Guys Hospital, with a school for ‘maladjusted children’, at Camberwell Child Guidance Clinic and at Charing Cross Hospital in the Department of Child Psychiatry. He now works in private practice. Phillips is the author of many works, including Terrors and Experts (1997), In Writing: Essays on Literature (2016), Attention Seeking (2019) and his most recent book, The Cure for Psychoanalysis (2021). He also served as the General Editor of the New Penguin Classics Translations of the works of Sigmund Freud.The conversation begins by exploring the way mental health has become a topic of public interest as a result of the COVID‐19 pandemic. The opportunities and challenges in Phillips's experience working with schools and for young people's mental health services during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s are then discussed. Questions about the nature of psychoanalysis are introduced, and the discussion turns towards the relationship between philosophy, literature and psychoanalysis. There is a brief discussion of connections between Phillips's work and the philosophy of Stanley Cavell. Phillips's essays on schools and education are explored in connection with ideas of omniscience, sadomasochism and ‘experiments in living’. The conversation ends with a glimpse of school as a place to cultivate one's interest and one's sociability with others.

On the possibility of non-standard measurement of personality value orientations

As the title implies the article deals with the process of measurement of personality value orientations. This particular problem is especially acute during the COVID-19 and thus needs non-standard solutions. The article makes a point on what value orientations are, providing examples from history, philosophy, psychology and law to prove the point. Modern science is not possible without measurement and the article demonstrates standards from different perspectives. Article provides the analysis of values, their role in society and an explanation of how do they form, it mentions that most human values, deeds and goal need to be evaluated. There is a comparison, the relationship of our own desires, instinctive desires, with a system of prohibitions, restrictions, social norms, ideals of society with a certain system of behavior formed in our imagination under the influence of social and cultural relations. The emphasis is placed on the importance of using non-standard measurement and on that moral and structural categories cannot have a single quantitative standard, because they function as a measure. Article gives a perspective on how are the values formed and denoted the type of non-standard measurement. Due to changes of society the value system is changing, so a certain system of values that has developed in a person under the influence of society, its traditions, prohibitions, norms of behavior, socially significant events, etc., should refer to the non-standard measurement.

Love and fight in times of pandemic

This article deals with the Covid-19 pandemic and how the human expresses himself at this time as a human who can love, but in a way beyond neurosis and the self. For this, in a dialogue with the depths of Hegel and with the art of Goya, Freud’s psychoanalysis and its determination of the human are criticized. And with Lacan and Žižek it is shown that love is possible, but in as much as the human is thought in a radically different way, that is, for example, through the monstrous side. And that monstrous side is the singular thing that cannot be caught in any category that tries to represent it. And in that differential singularity it articulates with another © 2021, Discusiones Filosoficas.All Rights Reserved.

RESPUESTA DEL ORDENAMIENTO JURIDICO AUSTRIACO A LA PANDEMIA DEL CORONAVIRUS

The coronavirus pandemic has tested not only the legal foundations of fundamental rights in Austria, but also the awareness of them. A study by the Sigmund Freud University 2020 states that Austrians' unfamiliarity with their rights is due to their fragmented and stratified constitution and the lack of a catalog of fundamental rights. The dynamic and early work of the Constitutional Court during the Covid-19 crisis has helped to promote the interest of the citizenry, which has been affected in a whole range of freedoms, such as movement and residence, exercising a profession, assembly, the right to private and family life, property, data protection, education and equality. Although for reasons of space it is not appropriate in this paper to address the defense of each right, the reader will get an impression of the challenges, legal and procedural shortcomings of the Austrian legal framework in the face of interim measures to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 disease. In this context, the versatility and agility with which the centuries-old Constitution and its Constitutional Court have responded in defense of fundamental rights is positively surprising.Alternate :La pandemia del coronavirus ha puesto a prueba no solo los cimientos jurídicos de los derechos fundamentales en Austria, sino también la conciencia hacia ellos. Un estudio de la Universidad Sigmund Freud de 2020 manifiesta que la poca familiaridad de los austriacos con sus derechos se debe a su fragmentada y estratificada Constitución y a la falta de un catálogo de derechos fundamentales. La dinámica y temprana labor del TC durante la crisis del Covid-19 ha ayudado promover el interés de la ciudadanía, que se ha visto afectada en toda una serie de libertades, como por ejemplo la circulación y residencia, ejercer una profesión, reunión, el derecho a la vida privada y a la vida familiar, propiedad, protección de datos, educación y la igualdad. Aunque por razones de espacio, en este trabajo no procede abordar la defensa de cada derecho, el lector obtendrá una impresión de los retos, carencias legales y procedimentales del marco jurídico austriaco frente a las medidas provisionales para prevenir la propagación de la enfermedad Covid-19. En este contexto sorprende positivamente la versatilidad y agilidad con la que la centenaria Constitución y su Tribunal Constitucional han respondido en defensa de los derechos fundamentales.

Transience and hope: A return to Freud in a time of pandemic.

This essay is about what it is like to read Freud again in the time of the coronavirus pandemic. It offers a close reading of Freud's essay "On Transience" and it brings to light how it might be read differently with the thoughts of world-catastrophe on our minds.