CICSI NEWS

The paper rethinks one of the key psychoanalytic concepts, 'envy'. Inspired by a radically different social use of envy in another culture, it revisits psychoanalytic views on envy with the aim to consider their cultural framework and widen the understanding of envy’s functions. Re-evaluating Klein’s theory of envy as shaped by the interaction of phantasy and real environment, the paper uncovers omissions in her examples that suggest envy’s overlooked adaptive role in the feeling of being...

As part of a workshop on human rights and psychiatry, organised by AK Neue Psychiatrie im Bremer Westen (https://neuepsychiatrie-bremenwest.de/) und der Blaue Karawane e.V. (https://blauekarawane.de/), CICSI's Fabian Freyenhagen presented a talk on 'Autonomy, human rights, and coercion in psychiatry'. The talk was subsequently broadcasted at a small independent radio station and is available here, starting about 17 minutes into the broadcast. NB: both the talk and the broadcast are in German.

This paper critically examines theories of neoliberal socialisation. Taking Byung-chul Han's theory of ‘psychopolitics’ as an example, CICSI's Felix Yeung contends that descriptions highlighting the ‘seductive’ and ‘positive’ elements of neoliberal culture overlook the persistent disciplinary and precarising forces underpinning the neoliberal socio-economy. Contrary to claims that repressive mechanisms are obsolete, the analysis shows they were initially redirected towards marginalised groups...