'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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