Human among the more-than-human. Retrofitting Kohut for the Anthropocene

被引:6
作者
Kassouf, Susan [1 ]
机构
[1] Natl Assoc Psychoanal, New York, NY 10011 USA
关键词
Anthropocene; archaic precarious self; Erysichthonic complex; more-than-human selfobject tie; permeability; safety;
D O I
10.1080/24720038.2023.2194933
中图分类号
B84-0 [心理学理论];
学科分类号
040201 ;
摘要
In this speculative essay, I try to take seriously and psychoanalytically what many have diagnosed as a key dynamic in our age of the Anthropocene, namely narcissism. Because of the powerful paradigm shift and transformations his thinking inaugurated around narcissism, I turn to Heinz Kohut and those intersubjective Self psychologists who developed his theories. By expanding Kohut's theories of selfobject ties to include a tie to the more-than-human, I attempt to describe a state that too many of us inhabit too much of the time. An archaic self craves safety in response to precarity, while a more stable self is aware of the possibility of a liveable permeability. I suggest that such self states need to be thought together with internal and external more-than-human surrounds. My hope is that these explorations may contribute to our ability to understand, explain and ultimately act on the disproportionate suffering some endure and some inflict on each other and the planet in the Anthropocene.
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页数:21
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