Overcoming the fracture between psychic and social: the intervention on the Community through analytical work

The author intends to examine how psychoanalysis can address wide-ranging social problems and extend its influence beyond private studies. Psychoanalytic concepts are applicable to any setting. Psychoanalysis facilitates self-reflection and brings attention to details, nuances of perceptions and feelings. It helps us not to avoid painful experiences and to hold back pedagogical impulses. Associations of ideas are of particular value to illuminate situations from new points of view and unlock thought. Furthermore, psychoanalysis teaches us how to handle countertransference and this is of particular value in communities, where difficult relational situations and the power play of roles constantly tend to block the paths of emotional growth, as shown by the many colourful examples that the author gives in his exposition.