DOI 10.37240/wb.2025.5.10
wunderBlock. Psychoanaliza i Filozofia, nr 5 / 2025
Strony: 137-149
Abstract: This article asks what psychoanalysis can contribute to understanding a “mad” world. The authors propose a model of two pathways for dealing with an uncertain future in the contemporary polycrisis: (I) a counterphobic pseudo-coping that narrativizes diffuse anxieties into controllable causes and certainties – at the cost of denial, externalization, and splitting; (II) a tension-tolerant approach that acknowledges anxiety, uncertainty, and mourning while cultivating emotional future-capability. The paper proposes a distinction between present future (images we form now of what will be) and future present (what is to come but cannot yet be imagined), and introduces dynamic avant-coup as a capacity for “empty” waiting that remains open to the unforeseen. The result is a psychoanalytic groundwork for enabling a negative- utopian stance toward open futures.
Keywords: social unconscious, emotional future-capability, avant-coup, empty waiting, madness
About the authors: Prof. Dr. Timo Storck – is a full professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the Psychologische Hochschule Berlin and a practicing psychoanalyst (IPA) in Berlin and Heidelberg. His academic interest lies in conceptual research in psychotherapy, psychoanalytic methodology, psychoanalysis and film, and psychoanalysis and the future.
Dr. Ceren Doğan – is a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst (IPA) in private practice. She is also a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Psychosocial Prevention and Psychotherapy at the University of Heidelberg, where her work focuses on antisemitism, collective identity, social trauma, and the psychosocial conditions of future orientation. Her research combines psychoanalytic and social-psychological perspectives to explore how unconscious dynamics shape social conflict and the capacity to imagine sustainable futures.
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