Editorial

The events we have experienced in recent years at a global level have led us to think and feel differently than in times of relative stability and relative peace. This “other” has called for a revision of the representation of the human condition along the fundamental dual dimensions that define it from a psychoanalytic point of view: subjectivity-otherness, Eros-Thanatos. The pandemic, as a borderline existential event, revealed again how we regress, how rapid and sudden our return to magical thinking is, how argumentative our paranoid-persecutory attitudes can be. However, at the end of the pandemic, we were happy to announce that we had managed to join forces and become a “big work group”. It seemed we had succeeded in this goal by the 24^th of February 2022…

As a natural consequence of the anguish and regression caused by existential boundary events, the reference to the group and the institution is natural. The crises we are going through have tested our morality, our ability to think, reduced us from narcissistic reveries marked by self-sufficiency, omnipotence and omniscience, and have brought back to the forefront of discussion the subject of human relationships and the way in which each of us contributes to building and enhancing the common space of the group, the institution and humanity in general.

In the article Craving for Polymorphous Perverse Relationship, Ilany Kogan addresses the trans-generational impact of trauma constructed by a totalitarian setting, exploring, in a novel way, the sexual and emotional pathology of the son of a Holocaust survivor mother. The article explores the multiple ways in which the transmission of trauma from one generation to the next takes place: the traumatisation of the child by exploiting the child as a vehicle for the repetition of the parent's trauma; the traumatisation through the parent's emotional inaccessibility; traumatisation in fantasy; traumatisation through loss of self. Similarly, Ilany Kogan shows us