This Changes Everything: The Anthropocene Age and Psychoanalysis

Authors

  • Ryan LaMothe

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1234/fa.v0i76.279

Keywords:

Psychoanalytic education, Psychoanalytic psychotherapy, Climate change, Anthropocene, Fanon

Abstract

This article depicts the present and future consequences of climate change vis-à-vis material and psychological suffering and argues these realities invite alterations in psychoanalytic method, aims, education, and ethics. The article begins with a brief discussion on climate change and its material and psychological impacts. This is to establish that we are in the midst of an unfolding global crisis. This is followed by a depiction of a Fanonian approach to therapy and its relation to the realities of climate change. The last portion of the article addresses possible changes to psychoanalytic education and professional organizations. 

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Published

2019-07-25

How to Cite

LaMothe, R. (2019). This Changes Everything: The Anthropocene Age and Psychoanalysis. Free Associations, (76), 17–38. https://doi.org/10.1234/fa.v0i76.279

Issue

No. 76 (2019)

Section

Articles

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