| Abstract: | Neither the analytic container nor the analyst is immune to the currents of cultural and societal change, in particular when those changes feel seismic in nature. In addressing the cultural anxiety that surrounded the 2016 presidential election, psychic splintering and social schisms seemed ubiquitous, in and out of the analytic container. How does the analyst anchor her- or himself, both as conscious clinician and conscientious citizen, amidst such shifting cultural and political currents? When the analyst experiences either internal displacement from fundamental well-being or severing from her or his own capacity to think, might ancient myth shed light on what one must navigate to find terra firma once again? |
