On transience and other hatreds. (1st July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Crociani-Windland, Lita
• Is Part Of: Journal of psycho-social studies. Volume 13:Number 2(2020)
• Page Start: 179
• Page End: 191
• Publication Date: 2020-07-01
• Subjects: free associations -- transience -- movement -- environment -- marginalisation; Social sciences and psychoanalysis -- Periodicals; Psychology -- Periodicals; Psychohistory -- Periodicals; Social interaction -- Periodicals; Politics, Practical -- Periodicals; 302.5
• DOI: 10.1332/147867320X15894733016410
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1478-6737

Abstract

Abstract : This article originates in a free associative extended reflection on what the author sees as the many faces of our relationship to transience in Western culture. It begins with the image of plastic flowers in graveyards, wild flowers pushed to verges and marginal spaces, women, migrants and transient communities. Our relation to life, death and their relation to movement and limitation are key aspects being reflected on and taken up for further analysis. The result of the free associative experiment is to invite reflections on the Freudian concepts of Eros and Thanatos and revisit the highly controversial question of whether these should be viewed in terms of a dualist or a monistic understanding. What is being presented here is a way of working with free associations outside the consulting room and group processes, using free associations as a reflexive research tool within a psychosocial hermeneutic approach.