Thank you so much for providing this IPA Webinar. I loved listening to all your reflections about these very complex, hard emotions that we as analyst are facing both without our selves, patients, and the world at large. Thinking together helps and for this I am most grateful for your thoughtful efforts
Listening to these presentations I ask myself "What's wrong with polarization?" Polarization has always existed in my part of the world where we have lived in harmony with each "other". So, is "toxicity" in polarization a Western, white race trauma? I believe it is a consequence of what lies in the "unconscious" of the West, which continues to live in psychoanalytic denial of the shame arising out of historical truths such as "We did not leave you to yourself in the past. We from Europe came 'at' you in the Americas, Australia, Africa, the East initially as traders but stayed on because we wanted to "grab" the natural riches you had in abundance". Post WW2, the West continues to live in denial of the unconscious shame: "You can't be left to yourself in your part of the world, with your "otherness", to live a life of your choices in your economy?" and "We will come with our WMDs and blow you away if '....you are against us'."
