Waiting for other people: a psychoanalytic interpretation of the time for action.
Lacan
NHS
coronavirus
passivity
psychoanalysis
time
waiting
Journal
Wellcome open research
ISSN: 2398-502X
Titre abrégé: Wellcome Open Res
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101696457
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2020
2020
Historique:
accepted:
14
05
2020
entrez:
25
8
2020
pubmed:
25
8
2020
medline:
25
8
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Typical responses to a confrontation with failures in authority, or what Lacanians term 'the lack in the Other', involve attempts to shore it up. A patient undergoing psychoanalysis eventually faces the impossibility of doing this successfully; the Other will always be lacking. This creates a space through which she can reimagine how she might intervene in her suffering. Similarly, when coronavirus forces us to confront the brute fact of the lack in the Other at the socio-political level, we have the opportunity to discover a space for acting rather than continuing symptomatic behaviour that increasingly fails to work.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32832702
doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15959.1
pmc: PMC7438963
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
133Subventions
Organisme : Wellcome Trust
ID : 205400/Z/16/Z
Pays : United Kingdom
Informations de copyright
Copyright: © 2020 Osserman J and Lê A.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
No competing interests were disclosed.
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