Working-through Collective Wounds

Soreanu, Raluca

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“…(Butler, 2015: 73 -4) Bodies together-a return of the mass-present a demand for a kind of immediate, pre-ontological recognition. Butler links this with precarity, with making-vulnerable, a state of being that is resonant with Soreanu's (2018) Brazilian illustration given earlier. Bodies coming together in vulnerability and out of precarity, needing to express their hopes and fears, are a powerful statement of being; not that everyone is the same, but rather that everyone is forged in the same elemental, and binding together as a mass, as an assembly, is a way of giving expression to this.…”

Section: Jacqueline Rose Describes Freud's Trajectory Like Thismentioning

confidence: 84%

“…Here is an extended example given by Raluca Soreanu (2018) in her powerful account of the Brazilian social uprising of 2013, before it all turned sour and the country ended up with a militaristic authoritarian as its president.…”

Section: Managing the Massmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…The collective does not collapse into a set of individuals, but maintains its synchronized modulations. (Soreanu, 2018: 207–8)…”

Section: Managing the Massmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Soreanu understands this extraordinary moment as an instance of a kind of containment (‘someone is able to contain the movement of a crowd of tens of thousands, and their despair in re-living scenes of violence that transport them to the times of the military dictatorship’— Soreanu, 2018: 208), one in which the rhythmicity of the bodily action maintains and recreates a social body or indeed a new element of the social that resists destruction and promotes what she calls ‘a new complex of subjectification’: ‘The oblique line drawn by the arms travels away from the individual body to contain and modulate the rhythm of the socius . In so doing, it creates a new socius , a new complex of subjectification.…”

Section: Managing the Massmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The collective has incorporated the obliqueness of care. A new semiotic conjunction becomes conceivable across arms-eyes-voice-moving crowd’ (Soreanu, 2018: 209). In this way, a certain act that is both in tune with the crowd and has an integrating enactment of symbolic leadership, offers protection and calmness and a way forward for a mode of progressive ‘crowd control.’ Quoting Ferenczi (1932: 6), Soreanu comments, ‘the organism begins to think.’…”

Section: Managing the Massmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Mass psychology and psychosocial assemblies

Frosh¹

2022

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In the 100 years since Freud’s Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921) was published, much has changed and much has stayed the same. This article explores the resonance of Freud’s book with contemporary issues around inclusion and exclusion, masses and assemblies, and the question of how a practice of ethical relationality can emerge across a shared social terrain. Drawing on concepts from psychosocial studies and leaning especially on Judith Butler’s recent work on assemblies and on grievability, I argue that patterns of division and exclusion, notably along racialized lines, emerge from insistently violent responses to vulnerability. Understanding the intricate intersection between what are usually differentiated as ‘personal’ and ‘social’ domains in ways recognizable within group analysis, is an important move towards contesting this violence and towards a situation in which all lives become grievable.

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Section: Jacqueline Rose Describes Freud's Trajectory Like Thismentioning

confidence: 84%

Section: Managing the Massmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…The collective does not collapse into a set of individuals, but maintains its synchronized modulations. (Soreanu, 2018: 207–8)…”

Section: Managing the Massmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Managing the Massmentioning

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Beyond Recognition: The Politics of Encounter

Frosh¹

2019

Studies in the Psychosocial

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The context for this paper is an attempt to think through the possibilities and challenges of nonviolent resistance, with the shadow of the Israel-Palestine conflict looming over it. Drawing on the work of Jessica Benjamin, I outline how a theory of recognition becomes one of acknowledgement through the inclusion of a notion of a witnessing 'third'. This third is actively implicated in the injury caused by oppression and is called upon to do something about it. I go on to use Judith Butler's account of the challenge of nonviolence to draw out some lessons on issues of vulnerability, cohabitation and justice. Finally, I return to the question of the kind of witnessing third that might make a difference.

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Supervision for our times: countertransference and the rich legacy of the Budapest School

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2019

Am J Psychoanal

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In this paper I ask what an investigation of the Budapest model of supervision adds to our psychoanalytic imaginary. The Budapest model confronts us with a number of crucial questions for contemporary psychoanalysis, including the question of envisaging ways of working on the countertransference of the analyst to their patient. I discuss the forgetfulness that surrounds the Budapest model, and I read it in relation to the unsettling issues it stirs up, including those of authority, horizontality, and the ethics of psychoanalysis. In this model, supervision can be seen as a form of "double dreaming" or of "dreaming up of a dream". In particular, in drawing on the writings of Sándor Ferenczi and Michael Balint, I point to some principles behind the Budapest model and to the epistemic, technical, and ethical implications of their ideas. I also work toward a Ferenczian "translation" of the idea of "parallel process".

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Working-through Collective Wounds

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Mass psychology and psychosocial assemblies

Mass psychology and psychosocial assemblies

Beyond Recognition: The Politics of Encounter

Supervision for our times: countertransference and the rich legacy of the Budapest School

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