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Regarding our garish cover art image, befitting the discouraging times, we solemnly do bear in mind Albert Camus' infamous advice that we somehow must imagine that Sisyphus is happy in his fruitless labours. Still, even Nobelist Bob Dylan plaintively asked “what price you have to pay to get out of going through all things twice?” Things at this seamy juncture certainly seem Sisyphusean.
Judith Hughes weighs the causes and the implications of Trump's Project 2025-fuelled second term, the latter hefty reactionary masterpiece being one which many a red-capped follower had never heard of before casting their then happy votes. What are psychoanalysts to make of MAGA irrationality by people who really can't afford to be conservative? Ryan Lamothe then returns with explorations of the meaning of the post-industrial neoliberal agenda for planetary survival. Bettina Mathes takes a seriously literary turn in her endeavour to grasp – and help others to grasp – the hideous enormity of the Gaza war in a comparison of it to the Sarajevo siege. Daniel Burston chimes in from another realm with doleful considerations of the trade-offs when psychoanalysts engage with, as they sometimes feel they must, the butcher's bench of ongoing history.
Adam Shechter undertakes a deep dive into the “currencies of symbiosis and separation” in a meditation on the question of whether one possesses, as an analyst or just a human being, a “socialist heart,” of all things. The question then is why anyone would even ask that question and in what context and for what purpose. In a 'Cinema on the Couch“ foray, finally, Allister Mactaggert, in the immediate aftermath of the late and much lamented Donald Sutherland's passing, takes on Don't Look Now and manages to mine it for more symbolic treasure.
In other news, we are pleased to announce that this year's edition of the annual Psychoanalysis and The Public Sphere conference - once again with the cosponsoring Freud Museum - will address the theme of modern yo