Extra-ordinary Measures: Psychoanalytic Activism Today
Journal: The Psychoanalytic Quarterly
Psychoanalysis and various modes of activism have been intertwined and in dialogue since the beginning of our field. Activism can be considered departure, parameter, dilution of psychoanalytic thinking, or its most important distillation and a necessary engagement with and recognition of the ever present social. Different eras, countries, and lineages of psychoanalytic theory have brought forth many sorts of activis…