ABSTRACT
Ever since its beginnings over a hundred years ago, psychoanalysis has been a revolutionary doctrine, calling for a new view of ourselves and our world. Recently, psychoanalysts have tended to focus on clinical and technical applications of psychoanalytic concepts but, from the time of Freud's "Interpretation of Dreams" (1900), psychoanalytic concepts were also applied to and were in turn influenced by factors outside the consulting room. As Esman (1998) demonstrates, psychoanalysis has always been an applied science; the need to reaffirm the mutual influences of psychoanalytic concepts and other aspects of society and culture is even more relevant today than ever before.
