Group-Analytic Contexts, Issue 81, September 2018
Newsletter of the Group Analytic Society International
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Newsletter – Autumn <strong>2018</strong> 27<br />
postmodern, globalised, devouring matrix of relationships and,<br />
thus, help analysands, as well as society more generally, to<br />
transcend this morass and perhaps to rediscover their lost<br />
desire (Koukis 2016).<br />
The desire of the human being, often unknown, latent,<br />
unreachable and obscure, is interconnected with its freedom. In<br />
Koukis’ (2017) words: ‘…freedom of thought and, based on it,<br />
freedom to choose at least our own death’. This interrelation is<br />
endogenous in human nature while struggling for survival, maturation,<br />
integration and completion. Since the menace of mental death<br />
(Potamianou, 2001) hangs over humans ceaselessly, it is perhaps an<br />
act of energetic resignation of some delicate people to choose their<br />
psychic death.<br />
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