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/530/ Urgent and Immediate and Impossible ft. Christie Offenbacher & Ricky Levitt (Patreon)

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2026-01-27 08:00:09
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2026-01

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On the social turn in psychoanalysis.

Psychoanalysts Christie and Ricky talk to Alex and George about their article in issue #5 of Damage, on ill-fated attempts at solving social problems through therapy.

What is the 'social turn' and is it another case of immediacy?

Why are the social problems to be dealt with treated as both urgent and impossible to resolve?

Is this a case of hyperpolitics? Is psychoanalysis actually white supremacy?

Do the professions need defending? Do they need to accept their limitations?

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Links:

The Regression in Psychoanalysis’s “Social Turn”, Christie Offenbacher & Ricky Levitt

/210/ Reading Club: Psychoanalysis & Spirit of Capitalism

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Davka Smolah Collective

Anyone talking about demographics as a defining problem should be labelled a fascist.

Pickibun

Great episode but, also, can I just state for the record how all psychotherapists seem to have this *one way* of speaking? Impossibly attentive. Sorry, I liked the episode and I do not mind Freudian psychoanalysis but that manner of talking is 'unique'. Also, Alex, I am sorry but you cannot have the fall of the professions without there being a revulsion against them. As I think this discussion illustrates, the progressivist 'takeover' of the professions which occurred in the 2010s was characterised by the simultaneous desire to tear down the intellectual foundations of these institutions while ostensibly retaining their authority. I agree that there is a point to wanting to rehabilitate these professions but I do not think that it can happen without a hard, almost ‘Trumpian’ challenge. Otherwise, places like academia and journalism will muddle on and do what they do best: cover their tracks to maintain the dint of legitimacy which remains from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.