Case Stan
Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, 7500 212th Str. S.W., Ste. 105, Edmonds, WA, 98026, USA.
Am J Psychoanal. 2025 Jul 2. doi: 10.1057/s11231-025-09513-w.
Psychoanalytic ethicists identify caring as the deepest virtue in our work, but what is our capacity for caring at the collective level? Beyond our "groupish" nature (Bion, 1961) and our collective unconscious (Jung, 1926), the author considers an emerging collective conscience, in our theories and practices. Freud (1930) believed that our post-oedipal superegos, through the sacrifice of individual instincts, builds civilization-the "power of a community" larger than each of us. By basing his theory on one intrapsychic actor in the tragic myth of Oedipus, Freud left out a whole cast of characters who Oedipus treated as outcasts. These strangers, and those he estranged, offered a community of care to the oedipal triad. In our time the Oedipal complex has transformed into oedipal complexity; individual Oedipus at the crossroads now encounters sociocultural intersectionality. Grounded by our phylogenetic, ontogenetic, and sociogenic beginnings to bond in groups through the ethic of caring, the author tracks the longer road we travel on towards the ethic of fairness.
精神分析伦理学家将关怀视为我们工作中最深层次的美德，但我们在集体层面的关怀能力如何呢？除了我们的“群体特性”（比昂，1961）和集体无意识（荣格，1926）之外，作者在我们的理论和实践中思考一种正在浮现的集体良知。弗洛伊德（1930）认为，我们的后俄狄浦斯超我通过牺牲个体本能构建了文明——一个比我们每个人都更强大的“群体力量”。通过将其理论建立在俄狄浦斯悲剧神话中的一个心理内部角色上，弗洛伊德遗漏了俄狄浦斯视为弃儿的一整个角色阵容。这些陌生人，以及那些被他疏远的人，为俄狄浦斯三角提供了一个关怀社群。在我们这个时代，俄狄浦斯情结已转变为俄狄浦斯复杂性；处于十字路口的个体俄狄浦斯现在遭遇社会文化的交叉性。基于我们通过关怀伦理在群体中建立联系的种系发生、个体发生和社会发生的开端，作者追寻我们迈向公平伦理的更漫长道路。
