A Commentary on Burston and Nelson

Uncertainty and Psychoanalysis

Authors

  • C. Jama Adams

Abstract

What follows are some comments in relation to the manuscript by Burston and Nelson on the current turmoil in APsA.  Can we generate culturally informed theories, psychoanalytically grounded practitioners, and organizational structures that can contain and work with an infinite variety of cultural affinities: perplexed politicized Jews, aggrieved and enraged Palestinians, conservative Nigerian immigrants playing hide and seek with Blackness, an infinite permutation of sexual and gender identities and low-income Mexican refugees who do not speak Spanish or English? How do we recognize a fundamental psychoanalytic foundation while acknowledging the hybrid models being generated?

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Published

2023-10-24

How to Cite

Adams, C. J. . (2023). A Commentary on Burston and Nelson: Uncertainty and Psychoanalysis. Free Associations, (89). Retrieved from https://freeassociations.org.uk/FA_New/OJS/index.php/fa/article/view/464

Issue

No. 89 (2023)

Section

Forum on Social Justice and Psychoanalysis

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