'The State of Threat and Psychoanalysis: from the Uncanny that
Structures to the Uncanny that Alienates' 128K
by Janine Puget
I have placed this in the Free Associations egroup Files at :
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/free-associations/files/Puget_State_of_Threat
I have configured the site so that anyone can download from these
files, but let me know if you have trouble, and I can send the essay
directly to you as an an attachment or as a long email
I am delighted to make available at the earliest possible opportunity
the first chapter (of eight) of a remarkable and timely collection on
psychoanalysis in a state of terror, i.e., under the Argentine
dictatorship.
This chapter is by the distinguished Argentinian individual and group
analyst, Janine Puget, who co-edited the collection with Rene Kaes
and published in France in 1989 under the title _Violence d'etat et
Psychanalyse_ (Bordas). I obtained the rights for Free Association
Books and commissioned a translation by Trista Selous. By the time
she had done her work I had taken in two partners who decided not to
publish this and several other books of which I had a high opinion.
This and other issues led to a parting of the ways, with the result
that I was pushed out of my own company, followed in due course by
the managing director, and it is now (in my opinion and that of many
others) publishing many fewer noteworthy books.
I have tried to find a home for the collection in the dozen
years since the book was ready to publish, but radical ideas do not
seem to find much favour in psychoanalytic publishing these days. So
I decided to scan it into my Mac and publish it electronically on the
human-nature.com web site. This turned out to be a seriously tedious
task, and I have been at it for more time than I care to contemplate.
This chapter is the first instalment, and I will put the others on
the web as soon as I can manage to get them ready, beginning with the
bibliography.
As I said, Janine Puget is a remarkable woman. I spent a number of
pleasant times with her and her devoted and charming husband,
Enrique, who died some years ago. She was a protégé of another
remarkable woman, Marie Langer, whose From autobiography, _From
Vienna to Managua_, I did manage to publish while I was still in
charge at Free Association Books. (See the special issue of _Free
Associations_ on her work, with a contribution by Puget (FA no. 15)
and her essay, 'Social Violence and Psychoanalysis in Argentina: the
Unthinkable and the Unthought', in FA 13. Both issues are
unfortunately out of print, so I'll try to get at least the latter of
these scanned and onto the web site.
The essay I am putting on line is intrinsically interesting, timely
because of present-day Argentina and (although it is about state
terror) relevant to the dynamics of current terrorism. I hope it will
provoke discussion.
Best, Bob Young
Robert Maxwell Young, Prof. Emeritus of Psychotherapy &
Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, Univ.
of Sheffield, http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/
Co-Director, Bulgarian Institute of Human Relations & Honoured Prof.,
New Bulgarian Univ., Sofia. http://www.nbu.bg/bihr/psy.htm
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