ABSTRACT
The key issue of the papers I reviewed seems to lie in the interconnection between therapeutic and social ethos. In fact today malaise is tied to a particular mind-set of our contemporary culture where a distortion of the relations to objects is paramount. This is the double-edged sword of a failure in the construction of the object, which goes hand-in-hand with a failure of a family narrative. The objects of immediate satisfaction such as high tech gadgets and their solitary enjoyment remind me of the autistic spectrum, which has become today mental paradigm, following the decline of past psychic configurations such as classical neurosis or psychosis. Commodity-based and calculative modes of non-thinking have become the norm. Symbiotic primary relations do not allow addressing a call towards the other to whom the young is just sticking. The call, stifled by the immediate consummation of commodities, cannot be heard and we are not allowed the time and space to construct our own subjectivity, a space of separation which implies towardness.
