From “What’s American about American Psychoanalysis (2004)” to “What’s American History and Politics Got to Do with the Emergence of the Relational Turn (2012) and on to the American Nightmare: 2017”

ABSTRACT

This article, through four sections, looks at the philosophical and social backdrop to the relational turn, the particular pressures on psychoanalysis in the Second World War and post-War years. Drawing on Gampel’s ideas of radioactive identifications, the force of political and social experience on theory and practice in psychoanalysis is considered in the current political climate.

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Adrienne Harris

Adrienne Harris, Ph.D., is a psychoanalyst working in New York City. She is at NYU postdoc and is a member of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She writes about gender, development, and the impact of the social on the conduct and practices of psychoanalysis. She is on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and of the IPA online ejournal, Psychoanalysis Today. With Lewis Aron and Jeremy Safran, she started the Sandor Ferenczi Center at the New School.