Six Degrees of Separation and Connectedness: Searching for Meaning in Living Society and Culture

Author(s) : Judit Szekacs-Weisz

Six Degrees of Separation and Connectedness: Searching for Meaning in Living Society and Culture

Book Details

  • Publisher : Karnac Books
  • Published : 2026
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 150
  • Category :
    Forthcoming
  • Category 2 :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 98634
  • ISBN 13 : 9781800134614
  • ISBN 10 : 1800134614

Table of Contents

About the author
Preface by Kate Pearce
Foreword by Ken Robinson
Introduction

Part I: Strategies of survival and staying alive
1. How to become a bilingual psychoanalyst?
2. Survival strategies—a psychoanalytic view
3. Metamorphoses

Part II: Looking at fairy tales, art, and dreams
4. Return of the fairy tale: Harry Potter—a story of traumatised generations
5. Borrowed identities
6. Social dreaming: A paradox accepted
7. My twentieth century
8. Singing colours, whispering shadows, painted dreams

Part III: Lessons from history
9. Lost children of the recent history of psychoanalysis: Tibor Rajka MD, 1901–1980
10. Introduction to Sándor Ferenczi—Ernest Jones: Letters 1911–1933
11. The Living Archives Project

Part IV: Back to real time
12. Emigration from within
13. Mindless bodies—bodyless minds: Free associations around the topic of reality
14. Covid chronicles by a psychoanalyst: External and psychic reality in the time of lockdown

Postscript
References and bibliography
Index

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