The contexts of history lie within generational and lineage dimensions. This is why we will first submit to your attention a few historical coordinates that have led to the the contents of the current issue.

In the Communist era, psychology in general and psychoanalysis in particular were banned. The Institute of Psychology was closed and university study programmes were discontinued. Some professors and researchers in the field of psychology were demoted and forced to take unqualified jobs such as waste collectors or machinists.

Ideological infiltration became a constant, deemed by the party-state as necessary for the so-called cultural revolution, a programme that strived to build ways to impede and regress the social and individual development process. Life stories and events, difficult to believe by a westerner,