The Future of Psychoanalysis and Future Psychoanalysis

The Difference Between Evolution and Change

2.The Discovery of the Subject and the Psyche

 

This post is likely be considered boring. Not even few analysts would consider it related to what they are presently doing. However, I will continue writing and publishing it because I am convinced that the recent efforts to resuscitate psychoanalysis-especially in North America- have already failed. Psychoanalysts in the whole world are 12,000. The figure tells it all. Even if the 12000 are in one country they validate and attest to that it is a profession close to its last downfall. To cut it short: this could be for one (and only one) of two reasons: either psychoanalysis has outlived its usefulness, or there is something missing in our perception and conception of what happened to it. Personally, I am convinced that old psychoanalysis that we learned until the late Seventies-early Eighties has outlived its usefulness. What we face now is a new human object who has no concerns about sexuality, gender, parental relationships, aggression whether public or private. We need a new psychoanalysis that is different in its topics and who is the subject we will be dealing with in our future psychotherapy.   

                 I am making the first section of the post a problematic because our old psychoanalysis had and has a history that explains whey it emerged in the end in the nineteen century. If we will have a new psychoanalysis it has to have a similar background history too.