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This foundational work brings psychoanalytic insight to bear upon cultural and political phenomena. Symbiosis no longer describes an "infantile phase of development." Rather, depicts our very relationship to culture or society. |
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I have read Symbiosis and Separation with great interest and have found it to offer a very thoughtful and perceptive analysis of the interplay of unconscious phantasy and cultural phenomena.
—Thomas Ogden, M.D., author of The Matrix of the Mind
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I read Symbiosis and Separation with a good deal of excitement. Much of my clinical work confirms his insights and theories. But he carries them creatively into the social science field. I was very impressed by this fascinating book.
—Frances Tustin, author of Autism and Childhood Psychosis
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I am intrigued by Koenigsberg's psychoanalytic theory of culture. I find a strong element of truth in what he has expressed. I want to emphasize the great pleasure I experienced in reading this book and finding it so thought-provoking.
—Bernard L. Pacella, M.D., former President of the American Psychoanalytic Association
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PUTIN: "I WILL NEVER GIVE UP MY BELIEF THAT RUSSIANS AND UKRAINIANS ARE ONE PEOPLE."
Putin is enacting his own symbiotic fantasy. This is what the "war" (terrorist attack) is: that's ALL it is. To achieve "oneness," one has to kill those who wish to be (imagine) they are separate. NO SEPARATENESS ALLOWED.
"World politics' (the sound and the fury): ENACTING A PSYCHOLOGICAL FANTASY. And if you don't know what this FANTASY OF ONENESS IS, you don't know anything about the "war" (terrorist attack). "Mommy and child are one."
Of course, it's nonsense.
"How could it be nonsense if so many people are being slaughtered." That's Putin's point: he is demonstrating how DEEPLY HE BELIEVES IN HIS FANTASY (so it must be real).
Ukraine cannot be separate from Mother Russia. "Full of sound and fury."
All the BABBLING, but no one knows why. ENDLESS BABBLING WITH NO INSIGHT. Immersed within Putin's fantasy. The enactment of a fantasy. The dream of symbiosis. "RUSSIANS AND UKRANIANS ARE ONE PEOPLE."
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