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What the reader will find here is the second monographic issue dedicated to the Madrid Forum of 2022. The very fact that this second issue has been produced is an indication of the richness and variety of the contributions presented at that meeting. There is no doubt that after the terrible period of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Madrid gathering was in some way an explosion of creativity and enthusiasm. The many participants overcame the initial uncertainties and came to a face-to-face meeting after a time confined to a cold electronic distance. There was a real desire to meet again and exchange opinions and doubts in a warmer and more human way.
The serious events affecting the world today and the ominous prospect of a new world order are forcing us to quickly leave behind the suffering of the pandemic and face the new sufferings that are arising around us. The theoretical tools we possess that allow us to delve into the individual and collective psyche confer on us not only the possibility and the right, but also even the responsibility to try to throw light on what is happening and perhaps point out paths that will alleviate wounds.
Two articles in this issue focus on social aspects and their links with the internal world. Juan Flores, from a Winnicottian perspective, points out that the subject is never isolated and can only be studied together with the society that surrounds them and in which they are integrated. Social psychology, as we know, is at the same time individual psychology. The author points towards a two-way street that is closely related to our task. Without a doubt, social conflicts can influence personal suffering, and our body becomes an exponent of the social conflicts in which it is immersed. The individual and their clinic speaks to us of society, and this in turn serves as a loudspeaker for individual conflicts throughout a complex process where the unconscious and its manifestations show us the way.
Darius Leskauskas approaches the social from