You do not currently have permission to view the full text for this document. Please sign in to an account with an active subscription or contact support.
This article examines the political and ethical consequences of a specifically dynamic systems view of psychoanalysis and selfhood, arguing that a dynamic systems view entails an ethos, or a way of looking at the world. The article postulates the “thin” normativity, or the minimalist set of commitments involved in a dynamic systems account of selfhood. These minimal commitments provide a framework for exploring two ways in which politics and psychoanalysis intersect: first, how political context surfaces in psychoanalysis (as it is thematized concretely in treatment); and second, the politics of psychoanalysis (as a political or cultural force). The commitments can be summarized under the headings of an ethos of changeability; disruption; experimentation; particularization; and exposure.