Pub Date : 2024-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.inan.2024.100478
Alain Deneault
Context
The metapsychology expounded by Sigmund Freud in his First Topic of 1915, and the study of anxiety phenomena emphasized in the author's Second Topic from 1923 onwards, provide political ecology with conceptual elements for analyzing phenomena such as ecoanxiety.
Objectives
The aim of this text is to show how the psychic object is constituted in the original psychoanalytic theory, and how this approach enables us to measure the scale of the crisis represented by what is known in political ecology as ecoanxiety, but which is more often than not akin to ecoanguish.
Method
This conceptual approach proceeds by textual analysis, integrating psychoanalytical discourse with philosophical approaches, as was common practice in France during the last third of the 20th century.
Results/Interpretations
The result is an appraisal of the construction of substitute objects that the subjects of the epoch into which the ecological crisis plunges us tend to give themselves, out of an inability to give themselves objects in keeping with the unprecedented scope of today's problems.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.inan.2024.100491
Ella Schlesinger PhD (Docteur en psychopathologie et psychologie clinique et en anthropologie) , Liviu Poenaru PhD (Doctor in Psychopathology, Clinical Psychology, Federal Psychotherapist ASP)
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Pub Date : 2024-11-21DOI: 10.1016/j.inan.2024.100476
Hila Naot , Eyal Asor
Context
The concept of hygiene plays a significant role in human life, dividing spaces into opposing categories (clean vs. dirty, pure vs. taboo, familiar and uncanny, etc.) in the pursuit of a long and meaningful life. Across multiple disciplines, hygiene encompasses both physical-material and also mental-spiritual-abstract dimensions, and is studied through various lenses—medicine, religious and cultural studies, psychiatry and psychoanalysis, philosophy and more.
Objectives
The article aims to describe and critically analyze the pattern that defines hygiene maintenance mechanisms in multiple spheres of human activity. The analysis include physical and cultural hygiene in external aspects of our lives, as well as mental-spiritual hygiene in the internal spheres. The investigation explores how the mechanism of pursuing the hygiene works to preserve the “clean” or the “pure” by preventing the intrusion of the “dirty” and “polluting” and examines the implications of strict hygiene practices on life and vitality.
Method
This is a theoretical study drawing on interdisciplinary approaches, including medical research on the formation of the concept of hygiene, leading to the presentation of the “hygiene hypothesis”, religious and cultural analysis of concepts of purity and pollution, as explored by Mary Douglas, and Freud's psychoanalytic theory with focus on the concept of the uncanny (unheimlich) as a sphere of life that seems to “pollute” our inner world. The implications of Freud's ideas are further examined in the works of Winnicott and others.
Results
The study reveals that the strict enforcement of hygiene mechanisms, while aiming to eliminate the polluting element entirely, can paradoxically threaten the very vitality it seeks to protect. This paradox appears in different ways but follows a common pattern: the excessive pursuit of cleanliness may inadvertently harm the source of life that hygiene is intended to safeguard.
Interpretations
The article interprets the findings within a broader theoretical framework, and poses questions regarding the balance between the aspiration for purity and the preservation of life's essential vitality. Theoretical implications suggest a need for caution in how hygiene is approached in health policy, and also in contexts like psychology or psychoanalysis. Future research should explore how this balance can be maintained across other fields, such as ethics, media policy in consumer-driven society or education.
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