Psychoanalysis on Borders, Limits and Beyond

Psychoanalysis meets a world shaped by borders, limits, and divisions.

From political division and migration to digital culture and the lasting effects of the COVID pandemic, this book explores how boundaries – between people, nations, disciplines, and even within ourselves – shape the way we live, think, and relate to others. Bringing together voices from psychoanalysis and philosophy, it offers a fresh look at today’s most pressing tensions, ranging from political conflict and social fragmentation to personal identity and emotional life.

What sets this volume apart is its ability to connect intimate human experience with global realities, showing how the same forces that divide societies also operate within the psyche. Clear and thought-provoking, it invites readers to rethink familiar ideas about difference, connection, and responsibility in a rapidly changing world.

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Yianna Ioannou

Yianna Ioannou is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Nicosia in Nicosia, Cyprus and a clinical supervisor for the Center of Therapy, Training and Research.

Izzy Powis

Izzy Powis is a writer and psychoanalyst in formation based in New York City.

Sinziana Ravini

Sinziana Ravini is a psychoanalyst, writer, curator and art theory teacher based in Bucharest. She has a PhD in German literature from Heidelberg University and is writing a new thesis at UNArte, the academy of fine arts in Bucharest, on the relationship between art and psychoanalysis.

Léa Silveira

Léa Silveira is Professor of Philosophy at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), and researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq, Brazil).

Jamieson Webster

Jamieson Webster is a clinical psychoanalyst and Professor at The New School for Social Research.

Alessandra Affortunati Martins

Amit Saad

Ana Minozzo

Cassandra Seltman

Christian Ingo Lenz Dunker

Dušan I. Bjelić

Dušan Radunović

Ednei Soares

Ednei Soares is a psychoanalyst and holds a PhD from Radboud University. He is a Research Assistant at the Center for Contemporary European Philosophy and conducts research in Brazil and the Netherlands for the Stichting Psychoanalytische Fondsen. His academic career has included work at Radboud University's Behavioural Science Institute and teaching at universities in Brazil. He is a member of SIPP–ISPP.

Felix Bernstein

Herman Westerink

Herman Westerink is endowed and associate professor at the Center for Contemporary European Philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen.

Jelica Šumič Riha

Kazuyuki Hara

Marinos Pourgouris

Matt Johnson

Michael A. Petrou

Monique David-Ménard

Nadine Hartmann

Nelson da Silva Júnior

Nermeen Shaikh

Nikolas Antoniades

Patricia Gherovici

Paulo Beer

Paulo Beer is a psychoanalyst, professor and researcher in São Paulo, Brazil.

Pedro Magalhães Lopes

Rodrigo De La Fabián

Vladimir Safatle

Vladimir Safatle is professor of Philosophy and Psychology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. - http://filosofia.fflch.usp.br/en/professors/safatle

He is responsible for the Portuguese edition of 'Theodor Adorno's Complete Work' and coordinator of the Laboratory of Social Theory, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. He was invited-professor at the universities of Paris VII, Paris VIII, Toulouse, Louvain, responsible for seminars at the Collège International de Philosophy and fellow of the Stellenbosch Intitute of Advanced Studies (South Africa). He is the author of 'La passion du négatif: Lacan et la dialectique (Georg Olms, 2010)' and several books in Portuguese and Spanish about critical theory, psychoanalysis, politics and philosophy of music.

He has a weekly column in the newspaper 'Folha de São Paulo' - http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/vladimirsafatle/

Yianna Ioannou

Léa Silveira

Jamieson Webster