Mortality, Identity & Trans-Subjectivity: A Discussion of Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot’s “The Carnivalesque Politics of a Pandemic Body”

Malcolm Owen Slavin, PhD, is a founder of The Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, where he teaches, supervises, and has served as President. He is on the faculty of several other psychoanalytic institutes worldwide, as well as on the International Council for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP), and is a director of IARPP. Slavin is a consulting and associate editor of the journals Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and Self and Context. He is the author (with Daniel Kriegman) of The Adaptive Design of the Human Psyche: Psychoanalysis, Evolutionary Biology and the Therapeutic Process. His forthcoming book, Original Loss: Grieving Existential Trauma in the Arts and the Art of Psychoanalysis, explores the human evolutionary loss of a formerly innate, instinctual embeddedness in nature and how it necessitated the vital survival function of the arts as well as the art within psychoanalysis and religion. He is also assembling a volume of his collected papers entitled Why the Analyst Needs to Change, a name drawn from his earlier work of the same title.
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