In crisis: transformation of the world and change in psychoanalysis

The author starts from the conviction that the current historical moment, commonly defined as the "season of the crisis", constitutes, more than a passing historical conjuncture, a real structural condition perfectly homogeneous with the model of development that characterizes the time of globalization. The formidable welding that has come about today between individualism and the substantial process of disembodiment of subjectivity is leading towards a drift whose tangible effects can also be found in the analysis room. Through numerous clinical examples, the author shows how a pervasive sense of inadequacy and the distressing search for a rapid solution that can restore a condition of "normality" in the shortest possible time, are the elements that seem to characterize the therapeutic demand today. What can psychoanalysis do in the face of all this? Which instruments and which "values" can the psychoanalyst interpret in order not to give in to the logic of the "quick fix" and rather to contrast the spirit at the base of it?