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This telescope is nothing other than the concretization of the theory of geometrical optics. But it makes it possible to observe phenomena that are not contained in the said theory… . The right way of using theory is to allow us to make new observations and to discover phenomena that are not contained in the initial theory.
Case totals and deaths tolls have become a strange clock for the brave new world of our disaster. The magnitude of the present condition is distressingly marked by the fact that I must continually return to revise the following sentence, that we must continually return to what we are currently sentenced to: as of this writing we are approaching fifty-five million cases of the novel coronavirus worldwide, with over 1.3 million deaths— almost a fifth of these from the United States. Now, after months of sheltering in place and a near complete shuttering of our economy, we face not a light at the end of the tunnel but daily record-breaking tallies of cases, threatening debilitating surges. Half a year into this pandemic, the numbers only continue to stagger us; the future remains dark and uncertain.
Global events of this historical magnitude cannot but have important impacts on psychoanalysis, on both its theory and its practice. Our conferences and symposia are abuzz with the impacts on psychoanalytic practice, much of it dealing with necessary adjustments to the setting occasioned by working at a distance (so called “tele-health”) and to its