WHAT WE ARE UP TO

When researching a specific field of practice, or a situated phenomenon, we may wonder what is it that keeps this very field alive, lending it vitality as well as attunement to times, necessities and possibilities. Here I propose a psychosocial ethnography in which I knit together historical and contemporary threads that compose what we can hold on to as scenes of feminist desire in Argentinean psychoanalysis. These moments, demonstrated in the form of narrative field notes, are small but also bold acts of disobedience, of risk-taking, which through rupture germinate possibilities of collectivity and repair. In dialogue with Silvia Bleichmar, Anne Duffourmantelle, Ariella Azoulay and Veronica Gago, I mobilise their propositions of potential, gentleness and neogenesis to realise a feminist anthropological incursion into a counter-hegemonic history of the psychoanalytic milieu and its plural practices. My aim is to contribute to an elastic imagination of the potential of the psychoanalytic in times of poly-crises.

Open access https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41282-026-00689-3

With contributions by Sacha Craddock, Lizaveta van Munsteren, Raluca Soreanu, Ana Tomčić, Ewan O’Neill & Julianna Pusztai

This book unfolds between art and psychoanalysis. It showcases Ana Čvorović’s exhibition Fog and offers insights into a collective process where art and psychoanalysis are in dialogue. Through Fog, we meet a world of fragments, an intricate play on walls, transparency, opacity, inside and outside, the positions of doctor and patient, but also fragility and psychic suffering. In these pages, we invite you to step into this world, and to also experience the creative process of researchers of the FREEPSY collective, who engage Ana and her work. We offer a composition of text and images that traces the ways in which the unconscious is at the heart of how we think and create. The productivity of the unconscious is part of our method.

The conference, organized by the International Sándor Ferenczi Network (ISFN), will take place in Madrid, Spain from October 14–17, 2026

Raluca Soreanu’s article titled ‘On Struggle, Survival and Psychoanalysis: The Budapest Polyclinic in the 1930s’ was published in issue 28(2) of Psychoanalysis & History and is available in Open Access format.

Join us online for the next FREEPSY Free Clinics Network multi-lingual skill-sharing event from 3-4:30 pm BST on Monday 5th October 2026. Book via Eventbrite.

An evening symposium to celebrate the publication of ‘CERFI: Analysis Everywhere. Militancy, Research, Architecture and Psychiatry’.

16 September, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Tickets: In-House and Online.

In this volume, the poetry of Imre Horváth (1906 – 1993) is paired up with the drawings and sketches of Miklós Jakobovits (1936 – 2012). The volume is a result of the friendship and creative encounter of the two, as well as a result of their experience of the ‘yellow house’ – another name for the mental asylum. 

Join us online for the next FREEPSY Free Clinics Network multi-lingual skill-sharing event from 3-4:30 pm on Monday 27th July 2026.

Register via Eventbrite.