For a psychoanalysis that loves and respects the Earth

(CRITICA - CRITICAL THINKING, CREATIVITY, & CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PRACTICE FALL ISSUE 2024 VOL. 5 NO.2)

The scientific information available to us today is sufficiently clear and precise to allow us to look at the world less distractedly surprised, more consciously mature regarding the effectsof the Anthropocene. From an ecological ethics perspective, we must look with clearly alarmedeyes, not naively optimistic or irresponsiblyindifferent, at the unlimitedconsumption of the planet's resources, thoughtlessly considered inexhaustible. Today we can relate human beings tothe exploitation of Mother Earth withwhat Freud wrote in "Clarificationson the Two Principles of MentalEvents" (1911) regarding His Majestythe Child, who takes for granted and without limits, with no possibility of extinction, the maternal availability to respond to his urgent needs, and with the child described by Melanie Klein (1935), whose unconscious fantasy consists of the inexhaustibility of the maternal breast, which he wants to fully possess, just like her entire body. It was Harold Searles (1960), during the years when the atomic threat loomed and the fear of the planet's destruction existed, who gave meaning and value to the "non-human" environment, to everyday habitat ....

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