THE INFLUENCE OF PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY UPON THE CONDUCT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Clinical and Metapsychological Considerations

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Publication TypeWeb Article
Year of Publication2008
AuthorsHoward F. Stein
AbstractPsychogeography begins with the vicissitudes of selfhood in a human body and
proceeds outward to encompass the world. The issue of boundaries takes us to
the heart of psychogeography. Symbolic group-boundaries have the quality of
dreamlike condensations. Through boundaries we express anxiety over body
integrity or cohesion versus disorganization, maleness versus femaleness,
pleasure versus unpleasure, animateness versus inanimateness, security
versus danger, symbiosis versus emotional separation (representational
differentiation). How these all are resolved finds ultimate expression in
the delineation of inside from outside: what and who are to be included in
the group, and what and who are to be excluded from it.
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