Fred Plaut in conversation with Andrew Samuels

Abstract

This is a reprint of an interview of Fred Plaut (who died in June 2009) conducted by Andrew Samuels in mid-1988 and first published in April 1989 in the Journal, 34, 2, pp. 159-83. The interview covers Plaut's early life, his career, and historical observations of the development of the Society of Analytical Psychology from its beginnings, and of the wider community of Jungian analysis. Plaut reflects uninhibitedly on such topics as the role of leadership in analytical psychology, discussing the parts played by Michael Fordham in London and Hannes Dieckmann in Berlin. Plaut explains his thinking concerning individuation.

Kurumsal İktisatçı Olarak Hayek: Kültürel Evrim, Kurallar ve Kurumlar

“…Avusturya iktisat okulu ve kurumsal iktisat, 20. yüzyıl boyunca etkili olan ve heterojen görünüme sahip iki iktisadi düşünce okuludur. 58 İki okulun piyasa kavramı etrafında birleşmeleri pek mümkün görünmezken her iki okulun da heterojen görünüme sahip olmaları ve kurumları önceleyen bir sosyal teori geliştirmeleri sebebiyle bu çalışmada iki okul arasında kurumlar üzerinden bir ortak nokta yakalanmıştır. Bunun gerçekleşmesinde, Hayek'in hem 20. yüzyılın en etkili kamusal entelektüellerinden biri olarak politik iktisada ciddi katkılar sunmasının hem de kurumsal iktisat geleneğinde pek karşılaşılmayan kapsamlı bir kurallar teorisine sahip olmasının ve epistemolojiye dayanan kültürel evrim ve kurumsal analiz geliştirmesinin payı vardır.…”

Rivers of milk and honey ‐ an exploration of nurturing the self in a Russian context

“…Count Myshkin knew deep from within his innermost being how essential it was to give all these ever‐hungry, desperate and self‐deluded people around him love; to accept the sacrifice to be eaten (for this is how they understood love). Perhaps the sacrificial nature of the therapeutic relationship with patients who experience a blocked capacity to symbolize was also evident to Fred Plaut who, in the interview with Andrew Samuels, spoke with conviction after 40 years of analytic practice about the inevitability of the therapist ‘to be eaten, to be ingested, and excreted again’ by his/her patients () for ‘he is the food … and is going to serve the patient with his very being, body and soul’ (ibid., p. 58) serving his urge for wholeness.…”