Main description:

Psychoanalysis, Group Analysis, and Beyond presents an important new paradigm in psychoanalysis and group analysis, presenting the individual and the group as elements of a wider whole and taking socio-political and cultural contexts into account.

Juan Tubert-Oklander and Reyna Hernandez-Tubert explore the contributions of group analysis to this new perspective, which suggests a holistic conception of the respective status and nature of what the common-sense view of the world conceives as the individual and the community. Part I presents thoughts on the 'gelding' of psychoanalysis, focuses on the limitations of classical psychoanalysis, and elaborates on key topics including epistemology, inclusion and exclusion, culture, and the real. Part II considers the reincorporation of what had formerly been excluded, through the theory and practice of group analysis. Finally, Part III bridges the gap, presenting several approaches to the building of the new paradigm that is so sorely needed.

Psychoanalysis, Group Analysis, and Beyond will be of great interest to group analysts, psychoanalysts, and psychotherapists in practice and in training, as well as other professionals specializing in group work.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

Part I: The gelding of psychoanalysis

1. Freud's contradictions and the hybrid nature of psychoanalysis (2008-2020)

Juan Tubert-Oklander

2. Inclusion and exclusion in psychoanalysis (2013): from splitting to integration in our theory and practice

Reyna Hernandez-Tubert

Chapter 3: Donald Winnicott: a revolutionary malgre lui (2017)

Juan Tubert-Oklander

4. The fundamental role of aggression and hate in the psychoanalytic treatment (2017)

Reyna Hernandez-Tubert

5. Freudian anthropology and metasociology (2008)

Reyna Hernandez-Tubert

6. The work of culture (Kulturarbeit) in Freud (2012)

Reyna Hernandez-Tubert

7. The quest for the real (2016)

Juan Tubert-Oklander

Part II: A fresh look

8. The matrix and the bond (2017-2020): the holistic theory of group analysis

Juan Tubert-Oklander

9. The British and the Latin-American traditions (2014): The Social Unconscious and the large group part I

Juan Tubert-Oklander and Reyna Hernandez-Tubert

10. A context that becomes a text (2014): The Social Unconscious and the large group part II

Juan Tubert-Oklander and Reyna Hernandez-Tubert

11. Listening to the voices in the wind (2014): The Social Unconscious and the large group part III

Juan Tubert-Oklander and Reyna Hernandez-Tubert

12. The politics of despair: from despair to dialogue and hope

Reyna Hernandez-Tubert

Part III: Bridging the gap

13. Ferenczi and group analysis

Juan Tubert-Oklander

14. The wind and the tide (2013-2020): on personal acts and impersonal currents in human life

Juan Tubert-Oklander

15. Beyond psychoanalysis and group analysis

Juan Tubert-Oklander

16. And what next? (2021)

Appendices

Appendix I: Analogical hermeneutics

Appendix II: The conception of the world (Weltanschauung)

Appendix III: Holism

Appendix IV: Thinking group or therapeutic group - a personal reflection on the large group experience Reyna Hernandez-Tubert

References