Social Psychology
I am including under this title some issues that seem to
be relevant if we consider expanding the field of work of
a psychoanalyst. Apparently we could offer other kinds of
contribution besides the specific clinical work, using our
experience and training to study and discuss solutions for
social problems.
I am here talking about an attempt to establish an agenda
where certain topics could be debated within a frame - in
the sense of the Freudian weltanschauung - that seeks
to bring together factors from both the internal reality,
where we enter with Psychoanalysis, and from the external
reality, which we try to investigate with the help from thinkers
who have dedicated to research and discuss the present conditions
of the our world, as well as their resonance in the realm
of subjectivity.
In the section authors and quotations
we may find comments by Anthony Giddens, Karl Popper, Boaventura
de Sousa Santos, Eric Hobsbawm and some others, who offer
their view about our times and the ways it can be depicted,
besides José Bleger and Eugène Enriquez, who
deal with this issue more directly as they are in the area
of Psychology and Psychoanalysis themselves.
There are also two papers on this
subject - "A First Approach to the Possibility of
a Relationship between Psychoanalysis and Social Psychology",
that investigates this intersection, and "The Incarnate
Feather in the Cage", that goes over some questions
involving methodology in Social Psychology, plus chapter 3
in the book, named "The Analyst-Researcher,
where I point to the peculiar conditions - that may also turn
out to be quite privileged - for the psychoanalyst to become
an investigator in other fields as well, just like Freud already
called our attention to, in 1933 ("Explanations, Applications
and Orientations" - see authors and quotations).
The book is "O Componente
Emocional - funcionamento mental e ilusão à
luz das transformações econômicas no Brasil
desde 1985" ("The Emotional Component - mental
functioning and illusion at the light of economic transformations
in Brazil since 1985" - there is no translation for
it - yet).
Considering we have so many urgent problems in the economic
and social fields, it might be of interest to study them with
the help of the tools we have developed throughout our analytic
training and experience, which could add a new vertex to their
illuminating and even forwarding discussions and possible
solutions in a future we still cannot see.
As a starting point, there are some ideas gathered in Selected
Text (it hasn´t been published yet), that focus
more specific angles about the world of work in the realm
considered here.
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