Abstract
ABSTRACT This article examines the political and ethical consequences of a specifically dynamic systems view of psychoanalysis and selfhood, arguing that a dynamic systems view entails an ethos, or a way of looking at the world. The article postulates the “thin” normativity, or the minimalist set of commitments involved in a dynamic systems account of selfhood. These minimal commitments provide a framework for exploring two ways in which politics and psychoanalysis intersect: first, how political context surfaces in psychoanalysis (as it is thematized concretely in treatment); and second, the politics of psychoanalysis (as a political or cultural force). The commitments can be summarized under the headings of an ethos of changeability; disruption; experimentation; particularization; and exposure.
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