Psychoanalysis and Social Involvement Interpretation and Action

What is the ethical anchoring of psychoanalysis? What does it mean to be a subject and how is it different from being a self? Is analytic psychotherapy doomed to promote individualism?

Psychoanalysis and Social Involvement conducts a comparative investigation of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and activism, especially as it manifests in the Israeli-Palestinian arena. The basis for this comparative analysis is laid by means of a critical look at what it means to be a subject across social levels; the manner in which subjecthood develops and its inherent reliance on ethical positioning. Methodologically, the book interfaces theory with the empirical fields of psychotherapy and social activism, further strengthening its rooting in psychosocial studies.

This book will appeal to professionals including mental health workers, social workers, political scientists, and socio-political activists, especially those with liberal and radical agendas.

Uri Hadar is Professor of Psychology at Tel Aviv University, Israel. His research focuses on psychoanalysis and language and he has published various articles on why we gesture when we speak, as well as how the brain retrieves lexical information, analysing how they are intrinsically related.

He has also published two Hebrew books on psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Hadar is a member of 'Psychoactive- mental health professionals for human rights', which promotes the rights of Palestinians under Israeli occupation and is teaching an innovative course on the psychology of occupation.

Preface
Introduction: Structure and Overview of the Book's Main Themes
PART I: THE SUBJECT
1. Being a Subject
2. Subject to a Body
3. Psychotherapy and being a Subject - Basic Assumptions
4. Psychotherapy and being a Subject - Positions
5. Subject and Self
PART II: INTERPRETATION AND ACTION
6. Enactment and Analycity
7. Speech as Action
8. Positions Revisited
9. Interpretation, Enactment and Ethics
PART III: THE OTHER
10. Enactment and the Positioning of the Other
11. The Personal Other
12. The Subject and the Personal Other
13. From the Personal Other to the Other
PART IV: THIRDNESS
14. The Specular Third
15. Orthogonality
16. Triangulation and Identification
17. The Otherness of the Other
PART V: THE INJURY
18. The Injury
19. The Analytic Identification of the Injury
20. The Analyst's Recognition of the Injury
21. The Symmetrisation of the Injury
22. Transference and its Injuries
PART VI: FROM THE ANALYTIC TO THE POST-COLONIAL
23. From the Other to the (Post)Colonial
24. Jessica Benjamin
25. Trauma and Memory, Shoah and Nakba
PART VII: OCCUPATION AND ANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
26. Resistance
27. Violence
28. Reconciliation
29. Psychoanalytic Reconciliation
PART VIII: ACTIVISM
30. Activism
31. Postness
PART IX: PSYCHOLOGICAL ACTIVISM IN THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN ARENA
32. The Parents Circle Families Forum
33. The Mutual Acknowledgement Project
34. The Third in the Palestinian-Israeli Field
35. Psychoactive
PART X: THERAPY AND POLITICS
36. Compartmentalization and Analycity
37. Political Talk in Analysis
Epilogue: The Ethical and the True