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ABSTRACT
In discussing Nick Malherbe’s important exploration of liberation psychology and psychoanalysis, I attempt to sharpen analysis of the oppressive impact of traditional psychology/psychoanalysis (especially so in the U.S.). I consider oppressive hierarchies of privilege within the capitalist order in which all institutions, movements and individuals are implicated. I draw particularly from the intersectional theories of the Black feminists of the Combahee River Collective and their successors, and I consider struggles around privilege within other activist movements like ACT UP. This exploration leads me to raise questions about Malherbe’s sharp distinction between “consciousness- raising” and “unconsciousness-raising.” I explore, and raise some questions about, Malherbe’s vivid case illustration.
在讨论尼克·马尔赫贝对解放心理学和精神分析的重要探索的同时,我试图对传统心理学/精神分析的压迫性影响(尤其是在美国)进行尖锐的分析。我考虑的是资本主义秩序中压迫性的特权等级制度,所有的机构、运动和个人都牵涉其中。我特别从Combahee River Collective的黑人女权主义者及其继承者的交叉理论中汲取灵感,我还考虑了其他激进运动中围绕特权的斗争,比如ACT UP。这种探索使我对Malherbe对“意识提升”和“无意识提升”的尖锐区分提出了疑问。我对Malherbe生动的案例进行了探索,并提出了一些问题。
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Launched in 1991, Psychoanalytic Dialogues was founded on the premise that within the diverse world of psychoanalysis there had developed a set of overlapping perspectives that regarded relational configurations of self and others, real and fantasied, as the primary units of human motivation and psychodynamic explanation. These perspectives emerged within interpersonal psychoanalysis; British objct relations theories; self psychology; the empirical traditions of infancy research and child development; and certain currents of contemporary Freudian thought. This common relational model has come to provide a vitalizing framework within which clinical contributions can be situated and developed.