Abstract
Political violence has, for a very long time, been a focus of academic interest in various disciplines, probing the relentlessly cyclic nature of violence and counter-violence. This essay looks at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with reference to the map of links by means of which Bion conceptualized the relations between two individuals, giving special attention to how negative configurations of these links impede contact with truth on both sides. Relating to theoretical writings by Baudrillard, Benjamin, and Arendt, this essay suggests replacing planar with spatial thinking and the condition of revenge with that of forgiveness.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 378-387 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2024 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Keywords
- Bion
- evil
- forgiveness
- minus links
- trauma
- truth
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Clinical Psychology
- Psychiatry and Mental health
