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/530/ Urgent and Immediate and Impossible ft. Christie Offenbacher & Ricky Levitt
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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.
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What is the 'social turn' and is it another case of immediacy?
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Why are the social problems to be dealt with treated as both urgent and impossible to resolve?
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Is this a case of hyperpolitics? Is psychoanalysis actually white supremacy?
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Do the professions need defending? Do they need to accept their limitations?
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The Regression in Psychoanalysis’s “Social Turn”, Christie Offenbacher & Ricky Levitt