03/08/2025
Today I listened to three psychoanalysts in dialogue on the theme The Working Hope for a Creative and Proactive Approach to Catastrophes.
Gohar Homayounpour spoke of a radical hope rooted in the capacity to dream, a hope that endures despite imposed sociopolitical traumas, as is the case in Iran, for example.
In the very fabric of the saying "woman, life, freedom", there is clear connection to life, binding, linking, libido and sublimation:
they are not saying we want to die for freedom, they are saying we want to live for freedom.
Secondly, Christine Franckx analyzed the individuation process of adolescence, compromised and further intensified by the realisation that Mother Earth has become vulnerable and that the climate may no longer provide a safe home in the future.
According to Cosimo Schinaia ecogical ethics and science posit that there are good reasons to be alarmed. Denial is the other face of catastrophism, so we protect ourselves against intolerable feelings of insignificance, deprivation, loss, fear of death, and the sense of guilt that would result from acknowledging our implicit connivance.
Every genuine progression challenges our tolerance for the uncertainty of the "truths in transit," (Horovitz 2007) truths that move us away from the risk of thinking we always have the final and definitive solution at hand. They are small truths, probably slightly larger than a babble expressing a desire. However, we cannot exclude these truths because they support and promote psychic transformations.
Società Psicoanalitica Italiana
International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)
