Analysis Interminable 2025
Since the first presentation of "Analysis Interminable. Psychoanalytical Schools of Thought after Freud" in 2020, the world has developed dynamically: a pandemic has had a long-term impact on society, economy and human coexistence, while climate change has led to several natural disasters, also in the Global North. Wars in Ukraine and Palestine have shaken the sense of security of many people around the world, and the political situation is characterized by radicalization and division.
At the end of 2024, we therefore asked three of the interviewees from the original exhibition about these current challenges, thus providing a contemporary update on the interviews from "Analysis Interminable. Psychoanalytical Schools of Thought after Freud". Here we present assessments on current issues in our society from a psychoanalytical perspective – offered by Chris Jaenicke, Ilka Quindeau, and Eve Watson. This update was curated and carried out by Esther Hutfless in collaboration with Daniela Finzi.
Chris Jaenicke, Dipl. Psych., is a psychoanalyst, teaching analyst, clinical supervisor and lecturer at the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Psychoanalyse und Psychotherapie, Berlin e.V. Jaenicke has published on intersubjectivity and self-psychology and is co-editor of the journal Selbstpsychologie. Europäische Zeitschrift für Psychoanalytische Therapie und Forschung. He is the author of several books, such as Change in Psychoanalysis: An Analyst’s Reflections on the Therapeutic Relationship (2010), and The Search for a Relational Home: An intersubjective view of therapeutic action (2014).
Eve Watson, Ph.D., is involved in psychoanalytic practice, training, education, and research in Dublin (Ireland). She has published over thirty essays on psychoanalysis, sexuality, film, culture, and literature. Her co-edited book is Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory (2017, Punctum Books). She is currently working on two book projects, one on the drive theory and the other on Freud’s case studies. She is the academic director of the Freud Lacan institute (FLi), Dublin, and is the Editor of Lacunae, the International Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis. In 2022, she was the Erik Erikson Scholar-in-Residence at the Austen Riggs Centre in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Ilka Quindeau, Prof. Dr., is a psychologist, sociologist and psychoanalyst. She is a training analyst (DPV/IPA) and professor of psychoanalysis and was the president of the International Psychoanalytic University in Berlin from 2018 to 2020. She is currently working as a Fellow at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the TU Berlin. Quindeau has published extensively on gender and sexuality issues, biographical studies and trauma research, i. a. Seduction and Desire: The Psychoanalytic Theory of Sexuality Since Freud (2013), Der Wunsch nach Nähe -Liebe und Begehren in der Psychotherapie (with Wolfgang Schmidbauer, 2017).
