The Future of Psychoanalysis in an Interdisciplinary World
Psychoanalysis has never existed in isolation. From its earliest formulations, it emerged in dialogue with medicine, philosophy, literature, anthropology, linguistics, politics and the arts. Its central concepts—the unconscious, desire, repetition, symptom, transference and subjectivity—have always exceeded the limits of a single discipline.
The future of psychoanalysis depends on its capacity to preserve the rigor of clinical listening while remaining open to the questions posed by contemporary life. The psychoanalytic field cannot simply repeat inherited formulas, nor can it dissolve itself into the language of management, adaptation or technological efficiency. Its task is more difficult and more necessary: to sustain a…
