Multisubjective Devices.: An Extension of Psychoanalysis in Response to Contemporary Forms of malêtre
The text proposes understanding multisubjective devices as an extension of psychoanalysis capable of responding to contemporary forms of malêtre, conceived as a crisis affecting the foundations of psychic life and social bonds. René Kaës argues that psychoanalytic work with groups, families, and ins...
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Departamento de Psicoanálisis de la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario
2026
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| Acceso en línea: | https://psicoanalisisenlauniversidad.unr.edu.ar/index.php/RPU/article/view/294 |
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| Sumario: | The text proposes understanding multisubjective devices as an extension of psychoanalysis capable of responding to contemporary forms of malêtre, conceived as a crisis affecting the foundations of psychic life and social bonds. René Kaës argues that psychoanalytic work with groups, families, and institutions reveals the existence of multiple spaces of psychic reality — intrapsychic, intersubjective, and groupal — whose articulation is essential for processes of symbolization and subjectivation. The author examines how transformations of hypermodern societies have weakened metasocial and metapsychic guarantors that formerly supported identity and social cohesion, generating “subjectless processes”, fragile bonds, and the loss of shared symbolic references. In this context, group psychoanalytic devices offer elaborative potential to contain violence and destructiveness, fostering processes of linkage, thought, and collective elaboration of contemporary psychic suffering and enabling new conditions for psychic transformation. |
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