Full Description
This book examines tolerance as a concept under crisis, exploring its origin and functions, and how it can be at risk of replacement by moral intolerance or retributive justice in turbulent societies.
Tolerance - A Concept in Crisis considers the contributions that can be made to understanding and elaborating tolerance, and its counterpart intolerance, by psychoanalysis and group analysis. The contributors, representing a range of countries, backgrounds, and specialisms, consider five key themes: conceptual and emotional challenges, tolerance and psychoanalysis, tolerance and group analysis, tolerance and the socio-political, and tolerance and intolerance in organizations and institutes. The project suggests that tolerance is an outcome of developmental processes (emotional, intrapsychic, intersubjective, and social) to agree and contain disagreement as part of mutual belonging. It also considers how it might be taken too far. The concept of tolerance is examined through its valid contributions to diversity and reduction of discrimination, promoting reflexive scepticism, critical pluralism, and durable forgiveness.
Tolerance - A Concept in Crisis will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and group analysts facing issues of conflict and its resolutions, as well as other professionals who are seeking new perspectives on tolerance.
Contents
Part I: The Emotional Challenge of Tolerance: Between Disillusionment and Forgiveness
1. The Unbearable and the Emergence of Disillusioned Tolerance
Avi Berman
2. Tolerance and Forgiveness: Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives in Coping with Painful Otherness
Gila Ofer
3. Tolerance and Forgiveness as Survival Strategies
Ivan Urlić
4. The Intolerable Narrative: How Politicizing Forgiveness Undermines Transitional Justice Processes
Anat Hornung Ziff and Tamar Ziff
Part II: Tolerance and Psychoanalysis
5. The Stranger-Patient: Tolerance Between a Jewish Therapist and a Palestinian Patient in Israel
Noga Ariel-Galor
6. The Stranger on Analytic Couch
Martin Mahler
7. Tolerance, Mutual Recognition and Radical Witnessing: Three Degrees of Separation
Chana Ullman
Part III: Tolerance and Group Analysis
8. The Transformation of Intolerance: Political Divide, Enactment and Containment in Group Analysis
Robert Grossmark
9. The Development of Tolerance in a 'Prisoners' Matrix'
Ella Stolper
10. From Dead Ends to Live Exchanges - 'Social Tolerance' in the Analytic Group
Liat Warhaftig-Aran
Part IV: Tolerance and the Socio-Political
11. Polarization on Social Media - A Psychoanalytic and Group-Analytic Reflection on the Failure of Tolerance
Avi Berman
12. Tolerance and the Crowd: An Improbable Duet
Rina Dudai
13. Intolerance and Processes of Fundamentalism in the Context of the Basic Assumption of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification: Theoretical Notes and Clinical Illustrations
Earl Hopper
14. On Being Tolerated as a Minority
Leyla Navaro
15. Tolerance Amidst Racial Trauma: The South African Experience
Monica Spiro and Anne Morgan
16. The Dyadics of Tolerance and the Tolerance of Dyadics
Uri Hadar and Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot
17. Between Tolerance and Intolerance: Political Correctness and Populism
Haim Weinberg
Part V: Tolerance and Intolerance in Organizations and Institutes
18. Beyond Tolerance in Psychoanalytic Communities: Reflexive Skepticism and Critical Pluralism
Lewis Aron
19. The Challenge of Tolerance Between Psychoanalytic Institutes - Psychoanalytic Insights to Establishing New Psychoanalytic Institutes
Gila Ofer and Avi Berman
20. The Paradox of Tolerance: On the Therapeutic and Social Value of Not Tolerating the Intolerable
Uri Levin
