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Published online: 21 June 2024
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Had a title been required for this review, I would probably have gone with something like “The urgency of a psychoanalytically-informed cultural hermeneutics.” And what I mean by this, more simply put, is a psychoanalytically-informed interpretive approach that could make some modest headway into some of large cultural—and political—challenges of the present moment, in the United States and beyond: the mystifying support of demagogues and would-be dictators, the upsurge of fascist impulses and practices, the regressive return of proudly overt forms of racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, and more. In its own somewhat heterogeneous and at times idiosyncratic way, Roger Frie and Pascal Sauvayre's edited volume Culture, Politics and Race in the Making of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis marks a significant achievement that, in the end, moves in precisely this direction.
The centerpiece of this volume is the emergence of Psychiatry: The Journal of the Biology and the Pathology of Interpersonal Relations in 1938 under the direction of Harry Stack Sullivan. As for the “method” undergirding the volume, it entailed inviting a range of contributors, most of whom have been connected in some way to the William Alanson White Institute, to reflect upon, and comment on, selected articles from the journal. The resultant chapters include “The Sociocultural Turn: An Introduction” (Roger Frie and Pascal Sauvayre), “The Roots of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis: Harry S. Sullivan, Interdisciplinary Inquiry, and Subjectivity” (Naoko Wake, Roger Frie, and Pascal Sauvayre), “Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: A Lost Dialogue Over Time” (Victoria Malkin), “More Simply Human Than Otherwise: Interpersonal Psychoanalysis and the Field of the 'Negro
Mark Freeman
1 Department of Psychology, College of the Holy Cross, 1 College Street, Worce
Mark Freeman
1 Department of Psychology, College of the Holy Cross, 1 College Street, Worce