Abstract
This article highlights that psychoanalysis continues to be what it has always been: a theory and a clinic never stabilized, shifting perpetually. In the current moment, necessarily, this situation cannot be separated from the disturbing occurrences tied to the Covid-19 pandemic and, in addition, it relates to the centennial of Freud’s Oeuvre: Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921) in which arguments aimed at deepening our thinking regarding the reactions of human masses newly formed by telematic technologies, are sketched out. Considerations are added about psychoanalysis itself, and its practitioners as integrated to a materialized “artificial mass” in institutions that follow or pretend to follow lines designated by the two founders: Freud and Lacan. Changes to the analytic frame consequent to social distancing laws and to fear of contagion between participants in the psychoanalyst-analysand encounter are also discussed. These have led to the almost universal acquiescence of “telematic sessions” which imply irreversible changes to the practice and technique of psychoanalysis.
How to Cite:
Braunstein, N., (2021) “The Current State of Psychoanalysis in Society, Culture and the Clinic”, The European Journal of Psychoanalysis 8(1), 1–16.
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