Psychoanalyst Consultant Psychotherapist . Political Mind . Organisational Consultant. Fellow The British Psychoanalytic Society. British Psychoanalytic Association.British Federation Psychotherapy
The last Seminar of the Series Tuesday 16th July | 8.15pm - 9.45pm Commodities: Consuming people Prof Bob Hinshelwood I do not agree that psychoanalysis has an explanation for all political issues and problems. I believe there is a strong creative aspect to conscious linking, policies and planning. However, I think that there are sometimes unconscious interferences in the creative aspects of human life and achievement. That is when we as individuals come to a psychoanalyst, and it is when, in my view, we need to apply our thinking to social and political issues of a group or society. In a paper published forty years ago, I noticed a similarity between the term ‘alienation’ from Karl Marx’s early writings, and the Kleinian term ‘projective identification’ (Hinshelwood 1983). I have had a long time to consider the implications. I will quickly note the key point of that comparison. In his 1844. Early Writings Marx’s about the psychological position of the industrial worker:
