From the place of theory in psychoanalysis to the place of psychoanalysis ‘in a world where love has become a psychotechnical tool among others’ as Adorno insightfully foresaw in 1946 (41-42), these are some of the questions and themes that this issue of Sitegeist tackles and wrestles with, in a celebration of clinical and metapsychological commitment.
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