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lead it. In fact, the Psychoanalysts Against Nuc,lear Weapons organ–
ized in Hamburg long after other professions had done so, and in
Montreal they were given meeting space at the Congress Center.
Yet no more than two hundred people attended, which seems to in- ,.
dicate that the analysts too have been less interested in the peace
movement now that negotiations are in progress, and that it has lost
its impetus or maybe even its
raison d'etre.
(Almost as many came to
see Lynn Lehrman-Weiner's home movie on Freud and the dis–
ciples, which Alain de Mijolla introduced.) Like Freud's contem–
poraries who were convinced by his ideas because they already held
them, so today's analysts who already believe in disarmament em–
phasize the danger of annihilation, while those who believe in deter–
rence point out that it has worked over the last forty years. In other
words, psychoanalysts can legitimate their ideology as well as any
other profession.
This is not to say that research into the unconscious, ulti–
mately, may not provide the tools for better ways of understanding
human aggression, or that many of the simpler psychotherapies that
deny their descent from Freud use his insights into the unconscious.
So far, however, we know only that some analyses are terminable
while others are not, and that long after Freud's death psychoanaly–
sis is alive - high
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