the Sufferer
"This appeal to disavow the link between social forces and personal life reflects not only a defense against psychic overwhelm but the ethic of individualism as well that is at the heart of our social surround" (635)"My aim in this paper is to challenge the tendency within psychoanalysis to separate the social and the individual, the public and the private, the clinical and the political" (636)"prevailing psychoanalytic theories overly focus on the family in the etiology of psychic conflict and its affective and defensive dynamics at the expense of the historical and sociopolitical specific